A tool for lepidopterists

[Mark Walker]

Cool.  I have had my share of pins through the finger following a broad
sweeping motion over carpeted floors where I've just lost a pin...

Human flesh provides very little resistance to quality insect pins.

Mark.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenelm Philip [mailto:fnkwp at aurora.alaska.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 6:54 PM
> To: leps-l at lists.yale.edu
> Subject: A tool for lepidopterists
> 
> 
> 	Any of you that do much spreading may find this item of interest.
> 
> 	A couple of years ago I picked up a useful tool from a company
> that sells woodworking (and related) tools. It's a small but powerful
> magnet on a shaft that collapses to 5", and extends to 25" (like an
> aerial on a small TV set). Anyone who spreads leps is going to end up
> with insect pins on the floor, and picking those up normally involves
> getting down on your knees. Not with this tool--just extend it and wave
> its business end around on the floor below your work surface, and the
> magnet will pick up all the pins. No more crawling around on the floor...
> Works like a charm (if you don't mind having some of your insect pins a
> bit magnetized).
> 
> 	If you're interested, call 1-800-871-8158 (Lee Valley & Veritas)
> and ask for item # 99W63.20 (Pin & Needle Retriever). Price is $4.95 in
> their current Holiday 2002 Gift Catalog.
> 
> 	They made this for retrieving small parts in the shop, but found out
> recently that people who do sewing find the tool very useful. So now
> they're pushing it as a retriever for dropped needles and pins--which it
> does very well indeed.
> 
> 							Ken Philip
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