I am still enthralled whenever I see a high-power magnet, like when I was a little child burning bugs with a magnifying glass...
I wonder if a magnet has any place in a kit. I think yes. I have been mulling it over for years, yet the only situation I can come up with yet is of course the keys down the grated hole. But when is that going to happen. Probably never.
Then I saw a guy drop his keys into a deep grate-covered hole. He was able to pull the grate off and climb down into the slime and muck to retrieve them. It was about a seven foot deep pit! He was filthy when he got out. I instantly thought "That guy is sure persistent, but he would be clean as MacGuyver if he had used a magnet and string."
Now I am more conscience of when I have to hold my keychain more carefully (as my photon light is on it besides my keys), and it is actually quite often. It amazes me how often I am standing over non-solid ground. The last time was at night I was using my photon to look out into the water at frogs. By the way, the red photon light was not bright enough to see any of them. But, point being, I was standing on a tiny wooden bridge my keys could have easily bounced off and into the water if I had dropped them. Plorp!
Grade N45 magnets are the most powerful.
Look at the round ones with a hole in the center. Nifty!
I think I might get the 19 lb pull force and the 60 lb pull force. What do ya'all think?