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Grip Telescopic Magnetic Rake | 
| Brand: Grip-On-Tools
Category: Home Improvement
List Price: $59.99
Buy New: $19.99
You Save: $40.00 (67%)
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 46898
Media: Misc.
MPN: 53422
Model: 53422
UPC: 097257531227
EAN: 0097257531227
ASIN: B000Z7964O
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Ideal for use by roofers for cleanup of nails, screws, and other ferrous materials. | | • | Use a rake to pickup materials in grassy areas. | | • | Flip it over and use the flat side to pickup materials on flat surfaces. |
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Product Description
Ideal for use by roofers for cleanup of nails, screws, and other ferrous materials. Use a rake to pickup materials in grassy areas, flip it over and use the flat side to pickup materials on flat surfaces. Super strong fiberglass handle for added durability and strength.
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| Customer Reviews:
 A good tool-- but..... November 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It wasn't clear to me from the 'magnetic rake' product description that the rake tines are NOT magnetic. The rake head is a sturdy aluminum single piece which is a hollow aluminum tube with aluminum rake tines on one side. Inside the tube is the magnet. The best way to use the rake for picking up nails etc is with the rake head upside down--- that is, with the tines pointed up and the tube section directly against the ground. The tines are useful for scraping & loosening up a compacted dirt or gravel surface when that is needed, but magnetic pickup is best accomplished with the magnet as close to the nails as possible, and that means tines pointed up. The magnet is strong enough to do the job. By slowly lowering the rake head over a common 3 inch nail, I found that the magnet would pull an unrestrained nail up from the ground when about 2 inches above the nail. I also tested by scattering an exactly known number (20) of 2 inch drywall screws in an gravel driveway area of about 6 square feet and going over the area once with the rake, tines up. I did this twice & both times all the screws were found attached to the rake.
---- When you are using the rake, I think it is best to check for nails on the rake head several times a minute and remove them to prevent the possibility of knocking loose any previously found nails as you go along. The attraction of the magnet is pretty good, but it would be possible to catch a nailhead in a snag of some sort and pull it away from the rake, or jar a nail loose striking a rock.
---- I notice that a competing magnetic rake uses ceramic magnets and so is much lighter. I think this heavier rake is to be preferred since the greater weight would keep the rake head from bouncing up as much when it strikes unevenness in the surface being searched. Which is not to say that it is especially heavy. Weight is not a lot more than you'd expect in a regular steel rake, since the aluminum head's lightness is countered by the interior magnet's weight.
---- I worked the rake over a graveled area where I suspected there were a lot of nails from tearing down a building & construction of another structure. The rake turned up hundreds of old nails & screws on the first pass. (First pass actually involved back & forth movement several times over every square foot of the area. Using the tines to loosen the surface in areas where that seemed appropriate.) Then I did a second pass over the area which turned up less than 10 nails. The third pass yielded no nails.
---- A flaw in the rake is the tightening thumbscrew which locks the handle into the extended position. This broke immediately on first use in my rake, but this was a minor problem for me since it is easy to find another way to lock the handle into the extended position permanently. Unless you need the handle to telescope more than occasionally, I would not consider this a big problem.
---- Based on my experience, I think a magnetic rake is the superior choice for picking up nails etc on non-paved surfaces. Especially if the surface may need to be stirred-up to make the metal objects more available to the magnet. The wheeled magnetic pick-up tool options may be better for much larger paved areas. This rake did the job pretty well and is reasonably priced. I recommend it.
 The rake really works October 8, 2008
We had a burn pile and sometimes we park cars in the same area. The rake gets down to ground level and picks up nails and other metal objects. Works great!
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