Well, after four and a half wonderful years with my magnet, I bid it farewell.

After a particularly firm snag and a subsequent major loss of sensitivity, I was concerned the magnet was fractured or the coating had failed so I did an emergency removal which went very smoothly and I’m now all healed up.

I’ll miss it dearly; after that long, it became an instinct — just the other day I was doing PC maintenance and confidently reached for a screw with my finger that disappointingly didn’t jump onto it for safekeeping… This will take some getting used to :(