Northwest Magnets

We stopped in at Northwest Magnets on our walk this afternoon. A short, older woman with a German or Eastern European accent helped us. She gave us a lot of warnings about this and that.

I asked to take some photos and she said okay. A minute or so later I asked if I could take a look into the back work shop, which you can see from the retail area through a window in the door.

Inside the shop a nice fellow was putting together a large electromagnet to be used for scrap metal and wrecked autos. He was wrapping copper bands around and around. "There'll be 1400 turns by the time we're done," he said. He told me it would "only weigh 3,000 or 4,000 pounds" when finished. He said, "that's nothing... some of 'em we build weigh 20,000 or 22,000 pounds." He didn't seem to mind that I was taking a few photos.

But then the woman shot in there saying, "no, no... I don't think you should be taking pictures... no, no...." She seemed nervous and concerned. I apologized but didn't offer to delete the photos and she didn't ask me to. I only took four shots.



I ended up spending about $60 in there and felt like I could have spent a lot more.