Help with magnet.

[stecad687]

Recently bought a pro motion magnet and am struggling to get the thing to work properly.

Basically it either throws the birds off the holding frame or throws the arms (with attached birds) off the small silver stubs. The arms simply slide on - I would expect a small butterfly screw to nip the arm onto the stub.

I find it odd that there is no way to firmly attach the arms onto the small stubs - surely centrifugal force will cause them to fly off (as they do).

The magnet seems to work OK if I allow the battery to run down and it spins slower.

Basically it just seems to spin too fast and chucks everything off.

This is driving me mad.

Am I doing something wrong?

[rimfire4969]

Seems like a job for a speed controller to slow everything down. My old magnet has thumb screws to hold the arms in place just seems sensible to me. Could you drill through both arms in place and drop a nail through the hole to stop them sliding off.

 

Speed controllers availble from lots of places including evilbay.

[The Essex Hunter]

Recently bought a pro motion magnet and am struggling to get the thing to work properly.

Basically it either throws the birds off the holding frame or throws the arms (with attached birds) off the small silver stubs. The arms simply slide on - I would expect a small butterfly screw to nip the arm onto the stub.

I find it odd that there is no way to firmly attach the arms onto the small stubs - surely centrifugal force will cause them to fly off (as they do).

The magnet seems to work OK if I allow the battery to run down and it spins slower.

Basically it just seems to spin too fast and chucks everything off.

This is driving me mad.

Am I doing something wrong?

Set your birds so they face in and NOT out....

http://forums.pigeonwatch.co.uk/forums/topic/83604-diy-pigeon-magnet/page-2?do=findComment&comment=2594082 (last picture)

 

Then at least the centrifugal force will push the bird into the carrier, two other things you can do is find a small piece of rubber/plastic tube from a car accessory shop that is a push fit over your stub's (windscreen washer pipe)

Then once the stub is through the wing then push the pipe over the stub!!

Second fix....if the machine is windscreen motor based and there are other terminals showing then swap one of you feed wires to a different terminal....

Do this on the bench and not with the arms connected !!

I would guess the first fix will do the trick as a friends machine is quite fast and with a pigeon weighing around 1lb also if you have the cradle facing out wards this might well launch the bird off the machine.....

 

TEH