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Looking for Magic in Junkyards

[Inside Magic has included stories of Jamie
Gilbert’s ingenuity and incredible ability to overcome adversity in past
issues. His contributions to magic has been nothing short of prodigious.

We have seen the fruit of his labors in great effects such as the Card Melt,
and his famous Foil System.

The guy is good.

Check out his web site
here.

We were excited to receive a note from Mr. Gilbert with a great idea. Please
let us know if you have ideas or tricks you’d like to share. We won’t share
secrets on Inside Magic but will try to share amongst our subscribers.]

My good friend Pat Giles gave me a great magic tip I would like to pass
along. Pat does magic but he also works on and repairs PCs as well.

Pat told me in all computers — old and new — have these small but powerful
magnets in them. They are very small like the size of your thumbnail with a
silver coating on them.

Here in Windsor you can always see these old PCs being thrown-out or on the
side-of-the-street. I have even seen old PCs at yard sales with a sign saying
free.

Pat has given me about half-a-dozen of these powerful magnets. I think they
are really great for magic.

[Mr. Gilbert gives some great ideas for magic effects you can accomplish with
the magnets — we won’t publish them here to keep secrets secret. Nevertheless,
they are impressive and, in keeping with Mr. Gilbert’s well-deserved reputation
they are very impressive].

The PCs also contain small silver rings — three of these silver rings in
each PC — and can be used as a nice set of Close-up Linking Rings. They look
really good.

I wanted to share this information and I personally did not believe it myself
until Pat showed me.

I thought “Hey,” I have to let you guys in on this.

So from a junk computer to new cool magic effects — what a great magic tip!

I know it is not very hard to find very old computers. If only for just the
magnets alone this is a great find. If you like Close-up Magic these rings would
be great for a Close-Up routine and the cost is nothing.

Thank you, Jamie.

We appreciate your sharing with us.