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Re: HELP! magnetised screen

#19631
From: Bob Davis
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 13:38
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In article <1993Jan24.031604.6873@nctams1.uucp> isecpac@pnet16.cts.com (Mr. Wally Izuo) writes:
>Roll a 6-10 foot extension card in a loop, about 1 foot diameter.
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>Move the coil of wire around your screen in a circular pattern
>(once is usually enough) but when you come to the end of your
>circle, slowly draw the coil of wire away from the screen.
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>The above method is the way you use a "degaussing coil".  'Course 
>you don't connect the other end of the extension cord.

	This is astonishing. How does a coil of wire in which no
current is flowing produce the magnetic field required for
degaussing? Please?


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