Off topic but interesting?? Magnetics

From: ip500 <ip500_at_home.com>
Date: Mon Nov 6 20:07:53 2000

        Hmmm, indeed! I can't really figure the rational either. UPS, FedEX,
BAX....even the FAA never heard of this "requirement". And negative
on the gauss meter at the pickup centers. A direct quote from one of the
phone drones "If you cannot get the information from the mfg you'll have
to take it to a lab and get it tested"...of course they couldn't supply
the testing parameters...I was just guessing at the 10 meteres distance
figure that I finally used and ...none of the mfg's supply magnet
strength
in gauss in their literature [sales or tech].
        Classic Catch-22,
        Craig

Chuck McManis wrote:
>
> > They (DHL) have refused to accept the
> > items until I come up with a "gauss reading" for the magnetic field????
>
> Hmm, they are probably concerned about destroying magnetic media in
> neighboring packages. Other than that I can't figure out why they would
> care (it won't be enough to pull a magnetic compass off course for
> example). There are gauss meters around, if this is there requirement I bet
> they have one in their pickup stores.
>
> --Chuck
Received on Mon Nov 06 2000 - 20:07:53 GMT