Rare earth magnets work very well, indeed. I found a very good source of
them for free - defunct hard drives! Some of the magnets found therein are
attatched to nice little steel plates with holes in them for your
convenience, and if you are really lucky, there will be a matching steel
plate for the other side.

These magnets are also currently holding a plastic sheet over my Golf's
leaky sunroof (will clean drain tubes someday).

Collect as many as you can, and if you don't have the right tools to
disassemble the drive, break the casting as need be. What, afraid of data
loss ? ;->

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Antaki

 Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
> Of Lawrence Johnson
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 3:54 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Table won't open. Any ideas how to open?
>
>
> Michael, a rare earth magnet would hold your table very firmly
> (IMO better than
> velcro). I bought mine at Lee Valley as a complete kit: magnet,
> screw down cup,
> screw down metal plate.
> -Larry
>
> Michael Townsend wrote:
>
> > <snip>pry it open every time.  One of these days, I am going to remove
> > the latch pin and add velcro.
>