Comments on: Ice Makers and Magnetic Paint: What they have in common. http://mnteractive.com/archive/ice-makers-and-magnetic-paint-what-they-have-in-common Minnesota's Interaction Design, Information Architecture, and User Experience Design Community Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:21:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Darrel Austin http://mnteractive.com/archive/ice-makers-and-magnetic-paint-what-they-have-in-common/comment-page-1#comment-13822 Darrel Austin Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:24:41 +0000 http://mnteractive.com/archive/ice-makers-and-magnetic-paint-what-they-have-in-common/#comment-13822 "It is much better to do a bit of homework before you buy in order to find out how a thing really is" Yep. Hopefully my post will help the next person googling 'magnetic paint'! “It is much better to do a bit of homework before you buy in order to find out how a thing really is”

Yep. Hopefully my post will help the next person googling ‘magnetic paint’!

]]> By: David B. Lytle http://mnteractive.com/archive/ice-makers-and-magnetic-paint-what-they-have-in-common/comment-page-1#comment-13821 David B. Lytle Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:42:46 +0000 http://mnteractive.com/archive/ice-makers-and-magnetic-paint-what-they-have-in-common/#comment-13821 It would be great if everything you bought would work just as yolu imagine it, but that isn't the way things are. It is much better to do a bit of homework before you buy in order to find out how a thing really is rather than to imagine how you would like a thing to perform and then get mad that it isn't what you had in mind. Magnetic paint, case in point. Magnetic paint doesn't change a surface to steel. It mearly coats the surface with a very thin layer of magnetically attractive particles that will attract magnets. Not all magnets are equal in strength or weight and they will not all be attracted equally to magnetic paint. Some magnets, the heavier and weaker ones will not stick well at all. Others, the sheet magnets and rare earth magnets will stick fine. It takes a little experimenting to find out what you really can and can't do with any new medium. I make Magically Magnetic paint additive that just stirs into ordinary paint and rolls on to any wall. It takes a minimum of two coats while some people prefer to use three or even four coats. A lot depends on how heavy you paint it on with each coat. Again, its the magnetically attractive particles in the paint that attract magnets, not the paint part. You are not just changing the color of the wall. You are changing it's surface completely. It is no small task to get magnets to stick to plaster. It would be great if everything you bought would work just as yolu imagine it, but that isn’t the way things are. It is much better to do a bit of homework before you buy in order to find out how a thing really is rather than to imagine how you would like a thing to perform and then get mad that it isn’t what you had in mind. Magnetic paint, case in point. Magnetic paint doesn’t change a surface to steel. It mearly coats the surface with a very thin layer of magnetically attractive particles that will attract magnets. Not all magnets are equal in strength or weight and they will not all be attracted equally to magnetic paint. Some magnets, the heavier and weaker ones will not stick well at all. Others, the sheet magnets and rare earth magnets will stick fine. It takes a little experimenting to find out what you really can and can’t do with any new medium.

I make Magically Magnetic paint additive that just stirs into ordinary paint and rolls on to any wall. It takes a minimum of two coats while some people prefer to use three or even four coats. A lot depends on how heavy you paint it on with each coat. Again, its the magnetically attractive particles in the paint that attract magnets, not the paint part. You are not just changing the color of the wall. You are changing it’s surface completely. It is no small task to get magnets to stick to plaster.

]]> By: Rett http://mnteractive.com/archive/ice-makers-and-magnetic-paint-what-they-have-in-common/comment-page-1#comment-3697 Rett Thu, 28 Dec 2006 16:26:32 +0000 http://mnteractive.com/archive/ice-makers-and-magnetic-paint-what-they-have-in-common/#comment-3697 I totally agree. This reminds me of a <a href="http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/163-screens-around-town-the-difference-is-obvious" rel="nofollow">37signals post I saw a week or so ago.</a> They show a Microsoft Visual Studio ad that boasts "Over 400 new features. The difference is obvious." and compare it to a Vanilla ad that says "back with fewer features than ever." Oh, and I'll make sure that the next fridge I buy does not have an icemaker. I totally agree. This reminds me of a 37signals post I saw a week or so ago. They show a Microsoft Visual Studio ad that boasts “Over 400 new features. The difference is obvious.” and compare it to a Vanilla ad that says “back with fewer features than ever.”

Oh, and I’ll make sure that the next fridge I buy does not have an icemaker.

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