Safety:
Trentatrons are supplied with Keepers between the magnets to prevent magnet movement due to a sudden jolt. The Trentatron magnets are not glued in place. They hold themselves in place and the magnets will fly together inside the frame, only if dropped or if the slotted channel is allowed to snap to the bottom of the slot, without a pipe or Keeper in place. This arrangement is helpful if you let your Trentatron get attached to too many things and permits future upgrades to higher grade magnet materials.
It is very difficult to separate these magnets if they become attached to one another. They must be slid side ways and apart, you can't PULL the magnets apart.. If the TAT-21 magnets are allowed to attach to one another you have 400 pounds of pull force holding these magnets together. It's no small trick to separate two of these Bad Boys.
The 5-Gauss Line in the fully assembled Trentatron is 6 Inches from the back of the channels and 1 inch from the side plates. Personnel with pacemakers should not handle the magnetic units.
Handle magnetic units with care! The magnetic units are extremely strong. Injury is possible if the magnetic units are allowed to snap together or if nearby metal objects are allowed to be attracted to the magnets. Each magnet of the TAT-21 has a pull force of 200 pounds. Be aware and be prepared, don't allow these things to slip and grab something or somebody.
It is highly recommended that you keep the individual magnetic units in their shipped configuration until you actually separate the individual parts for attachment around the pipe. In no case should you attempt to re-assemble these devices without first placing the devices around the pipe or having the supplied Keeper in place.
Don't make that mistake! If you do you will need to use some pieces of wood to seperate the two magnets. We have a wooden tool that we use to seperate these magnets when needed, especially the larger magnets we use. It is essentially a wooden pair of scissors. If you have a counter top with a sharp edge you may be able to just use a wooden board to seperate the magnets. Place one magnet on the edge of the counter and one hanging off of the edge. Then use the board to press that magnet down and away from the one on the counter top. It may help to stabilize the magnet on the counter top by having it attached to the outside of the main frame (bottom of frame).
Wooden Tool that we use to separate magnets.
