Can You Stick magnets to Da Spire?

Superman

Well can you?

connundrum

Yes!*










*Might be false

Mossy Monk

OT

saw The Spire for the first time the other day. some waste of money

xebec

According to some website I just looked at, the Spire is made of Stainless Steel. Stainless steel has magentic properties, so therefore, yes you should be able to stick magnets to it.

jaggeh

according to some homeless guy i just asked the pentagon have hidden a missile in it and the activator is lodged in his cerebellum

Karoma

Mossy Monk wrote:

OT

saw The Spire for the first time the other day. some waste of money

*looks at calendar...
It's not even Farmers big Day Out / Little Christmas yet. Stay away!

OP: Go find out.

Ruu_Old

Give it a try as suggested*.:)




*during a lightning storm.

Rb

I haven't tried, nor do I really have any interest in...but go for it if you want I suppose.

Unless you plan on attaching a massive magnet to it to pull it down, if thats the case then you've my full support!

Degag

Mossy Monk wrote:

OT

saw The Spire for the first time the other day. some waste of money

Would agree with you. Up close it is quite formidable just for its height, but from a distance it looks really unimpressive especially concidering all the hype that surrounded it..

Rb

As horrible as it is, I got to see some of the other entries/ideas for what was to replace the pillar and its a long shot better than some of them. Some were absolute monstrosities that would have stuck out one hundred times worse than the one we have now.

ninebeanrows

I like the spire, it's unique and when you walk down Henry Street it gives you something to look at. It still make me kinda sicky and disorientated when i try to look tp the very top!

BlueSpiral

Most probably, what are you planning to magnetise to the Spire? Or as the tour guide said, "The Stiffy By the Liffey".

MrJoeSoap

I say we get a load of fridge magnets and throw them as high up the yoke as we can.

EamonnKeane

With a really powerful magnet strapped to one's chest, you could climb the Spire. (and two small ones on your hands to manoeuvre)

Robbo

MrJoeSoap wrote:

I say we get a load of fridge magnets and throw them as high up the yoke as we can.

Get the alphabet ones and spell out obscenities.

Setun

The spire is there so all the rich tourists can find their way into Cleary's. Marvellous.

Interesting though, the spire would look, according to conservativeestimates.com, at least 67.4 times better covered in magnets.

free2fly

MrJoeSoap wrote:

I say we get a load of fridge magnets and throw them as high up the yoke as we can.

hahahahaha! I love it!

Sam Vimes

Weathercheck wrote:

I like the spire, it's unique and when you walk down Henry Street it gives you something to look at. It still make me kinda sicky and disorientated when i try to look tp the very top!

sometimes things are unique for a reason.

Takeshi_Kovacs

Can't believe that no one has tried putting a few LED throwies up on it yet.. should liven it up a bit especially coming up to Christmas...

How to make --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNSH_AUjths&mode=related&search=

and examples of what bums with nothing else to do but stick magnets and leds to metal stuff --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rZesINf-Ss&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr3iWdaMPjU&mode=related&search=

Dave!

Well it depends how big the magnet is, but I'd say if it's reasonably small then yes, you can.

iFight

Robbo wrote:

Get the alphabet ones and spell out obscenities.

Would be proud to look at it, for once

Feral Mutant

I like the spire. Whenever I'm in town, don't know where I am and need to get to my bus stop (on O'Connell St), I just head towards it. Remarkably convenient.

JustCoz

How does this thread have so many posts?!

logonapr

Heres's another one that thinks the Spire was a great addition to the city centre.

MrJoeSoap

JustCoz wrote:

How does this thread have so many posts?!

Well you helped!

neuro-praxis

I am bringing a magnet to work tomorrow just to see if I can subtley stick it to the spire.

angeldelight

neuro-praxis wrote:

I am bringing a magnet to work tomorrow just to see if I can subtley stick it to the spire.

We should organise a group of us to walk past it each with a magnet and see how many we can stick on without really being noticed...



The most stupid things seem like fun when stuck at home sick "resting"!

Goodshape

logonapr wrote:

Heres's another one that thinks the Spire was a great addition to the city centre.

+1.

All too easy to bitch about things I think, nothing at all wrong with the spire. Dublin is a fairly low rise city so it works well in the centre of it all.

Can actually see it from my bedroom window here in Kimmage. That's fairly cool.

Dickmcsavage

EamonnKeane wrote:

With a really powerful magnet strapped to one's chest, you could climb the Spire. (and two small ones on your hands to manoeuvre)

That would be great! The sad thing is though that even though they are only magnets, the scum of Dublin are attracted to anything unusual that they can pick up.

'Ha ha I got me a bleedin magnet I have wha?! ha ha ha. Gonna stck this on me feckin' knife and stab someone wha?! ha ha ha'

dimerocks

if it works i'd say we should all start buying magnets and sticking them on it! Cover the ****er, people would come from miles away to see magnets all over a spike. Nobody goes just to see the spike....but the magnet spike....we're onto a tourist goldmine!

Wacker

EamonnKeane wrote:

With a really powerful magnet strapped to one's chest, you could climb the Spire. (and two small ones on your hands to manoeuvre)

Way to go. You made me get a vertigo attack while sitting in my living room even thinking about that, you wicked individual. Proud?

Anyway, I like the spire. Except for the vertigo it induces on occasion.

Adam

The first thing I thought when I read the OP's post was get a bunch of fridge magnets and FECK them up as high as you can and hopefully they'll stick! If nothing else it would pass the time, and if we were really competitive we could get personalised magnets, so that we can see who gets the highest!

\m/_(>_<)_\m/

xebec wrote:

According to some website I just looked at, the Spire is made of Stainless Steel. Stainless steel has magentic properties, so therefore, yes you should be able to stick magnets to it.

are you sure, AFAIK Stainless Steel has NO magnetic properties, in-fact I'm pretty positive a magnet wont stick to Stainless Steel. Try it.

their-for No a magnet would not stick to standard grade Stainless Steel

MarkR

Led magnets ftw! I think stainless steel is non-magnetic, but maybe it's not 100% steel. I must know the answer!

RobertFoster

Takeshi_Kovacs wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr3iWdaMPjU&mode=related&search=

...Can you stick magnets to the LUAS?

\m/_(>_<)_\m/

RobertFoster wrote:

...Can you stick magnets to the LUAS?

and parts that are carbon, mild or galvanised steel yes, any parts that are stainless steel or aluminum no.

but you might try sticking some on the glass... let us know how you get on.

danniemcq

with it bein bent at the top and all magnets in nearby buildings could straighten it out

Thirdfox

Naturally anything that contains Iron, Nickel or Cobalt allows magnets to stick to them.

If you electrify the Spire then it could potentially become magnetised too (start sucking in people with metal objects on them!)

Sam Vimes

\m/_(>_<)_\m/ wrote:

are you sure, AFAIK Stainless Steel has NO magnetic properties, in-fact I'm pretty positive a magnet wont stick to Stainless Steel. Try it.

their-for No a magnet would not stick to standard grade Stainless Steel

http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae546.cfm

Diarmsquid

"From its base up to about 10m, the stainless steel is partially polished in an abstract design to provide a slightly higher reflective surface than the remainder of the Spire."
Source - http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/PointsOfInterest/Detail.aspx?id=250&mid=1436

Will that affect it? Or will it stick anyway?

bluto63

I'm another that likes the spire. And I wouldn't like you people going around sticking magnets all over it!

Steoob

ffs will someone just go stick a magnet on it for christs sake...

and also i would hate to be a pessimistic and close minded as some of you, why do you have to give out aboiut everything, ie the spike and the luas? you try running the country... dunno why i decided to rant, im just quite annoyed at people hating everything... be happy, its good for your skin

Adam

It's not that I hate the Spire...more that I love magnets.

MrJoeSoap

Steoob wrote:

and also i would hate...

Steoob wrote:

im just quite annoyed at people hating...

Rofl!

Hobbes

\m/_(>_<)_\m/ wrote:

are you sure, AFAIK Stainless Steel has NO magnetic properties, in-fact I'm pretty positive a magnet wont stick to Stainless Steel. Try it.

Depends on the type of Stainless Steel. Non-Magnetic tends to be used though to stop rusting though. So my guess is you can't.

Heraldoffreeent

and if you threw the magnets up at it and they stuck,they would probably just slide down slowly to the bottom...................

So then after a few days there would be a shed load of magnets at the bottom of the spire covering the base of it.....................

Then instead of the spire in the mire it would be.....let me think....*thinking*............the spire in the pile of magnets!!! gottit!!.........

Then a woman from clontarf would call Joe Duffy..........................

Aaaaargh.........going slightly mad..................men in white co..........

\m/_(>_<)_\m/

Commander Vimes wrote:

http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae546.cfm

i knew somebody would look it up for me.
so as quoted here
"However, the most common stainless steels are 'austenitic' - these have a higher chromium content and nickel is also added. It is the nickel which modifies the physical structure of the steel and makes it non-magnetic."

so by all accounts its non-magnetic.

Hail 2 Da Chimp

\m/_(>_<)_\m/ wrote:

so by all accounts its non-magnetic.

Until someone proves differently...

Thirdfox

Nickel is one of the basic magnetisable metals (along with iron and cobalt) - how adding that would make something nonmagnetic is beyond me...

Also magnets used to be able to stick onto our pennies (or was it tupence?) because of the added iron or nickel.

Then again I'm not a metals expert perhaps adding nickel with other metals makes it anti-magnetic? Confusing stuff!

phantom_lord

surely this thread has gone on long enough for someone to bother to actually check?

raheny red

I'm heading into town shortly, where can one find a magnet??