Comments on: How To Make A Needle Compass https://survivaltek.com/?p=1122 Teaching the Ways and Means to Survive Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:53:52 -0400 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: Prutha Shah https://survivaltek.com/?p=1122&cpage=1#comment-1315 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 07:37:15 +0000 https://survivaltek.com/?p=1122#comment-1315 Please anyone can tell how to perform an experiment leading to static current production in any needle..????

]]> By: ZenGunFighter https://survivaltek.com/?p=1122&cpage=1#comment-340 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:15:52 +0000 https://survivaltek.com/?p=1122#comment-340 The idea of magnatizing a needle with a static charge is a physical impossiblility.

“abit of physics now. “Static” electric fields and magnetic fields are two different things and do not interact. So, we can’t pick up charged pieces of paper with a magnet, and we can’t use an electrostatically charged object to attract to a magnetic field – which includes the earth’s magnetic field. So, even if we could have created a static electric field on our pin with the piece of silk, this field will not interact with the earth’s magnetic field”

The reason it seems to work is that most needles come from the manufacturer already magnatized.

Read the whole article here;http://www.wildwoodsurvival.com/survival/navigation/rbimprovisedcompass01.html

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