Magnets and balls

[doa12]

I was putting the first machine in my pachinko wall tonight, added a couple balls to the top tray and since they didn't fall immediately out I dumped the rest of the bag I had in hand in, I imagine about 250 balls.... and... it rained balls inside the 'wall' I'm making and on the floor. There's a gap between my base and the actual wall so I used some rare earth magnets to grab em a dozen or so at a time from a spot I couldn't see. I didn't rub the magnets back and forth on the balls to transfer magnetism, but is just picking them up with a magnet bad?

Not sure why the images are tilted, they looked right before uploading. I ended up using a knob with a T-Nut under it to lock the pachinko in place. The knob's bolt goes through the 2x4 and T-Nut that is between the 2x4 and the pachinko, and presses into the wood strip on the top of the pachinko. I carefully opened the pachinko a few times and it seems stable enough, but I'll likely add another fastener on the right.

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[MrGneiss]

I've been using a big magnet on a stick sweeper thing to pick up balls for the last decade and nothing bad has happened yet!!

[doa12]

I've been using a big magnet on a stick sweeper thing to pick up balls for the last decade and nothing bad has happened yet!!

Thanks!

[Drunkenclam]

Some of the parlour ball managment systems use magnetic drums to raise the balls up about a foot every so often as it would be impossible to have one slope from the last machine to the ball lift.

[doa12]

Some of the parlour ball managment systems use magnetic drums to raise the balls up about a foot every so often as it would be impossible to have one slope from the last machine to the ball lift.

Thanks, I wasn't sure on if I'd turn the balls into magnets themselves I happened to have the magnets in a bag up there because I bought them when I got the knobs, so just used em.