New plans to brighten up Mixd HQ with the introduction of a ‘work wall’ that would allow the design team to display creative concepts was scuppered this afternoon.
The plan was simple: “Let’s get a sheet of stainless steel and use magnets to hold the work up”. One quick call to a local steel fabricator and within a couple of days our sheet of shiny metal arrived. It’s lovely, although the magnets don’t stick to it.
Now… having been taught at school that things are either magnetic or they’re not, we were pretty comfortable that stainless steel was. Oh no, how silly.
A quick bit of research on Google has informed us that stainless steel is a ‘ferritic’ structure and therefore magnetic, unless it has a large proportion of nickel (there must be loads in our sheet) making it ‘austenitic’… of course. If only Mr Rees had taught us that.
Right… anyone want a massive sheet of non-magnetic stainless steel?
Or have any suggestions of what we can do with it? Clean answers only please.
