Gene, you really had me laugh aloud, I guess that you did not get a discount price, since you had to buy them in two different stores – if you ‘only’ buy two or three compasses a one store, it is harder to discuss the price – although I think a camel dealer would have
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Ann, would it be possible for you to show a picture of one of the ingots?
If it looks like I think, it is like round bread, being thinker in the middle. Would that not make a difference when trying to make them magnetic? Also, if the ingot is round, how would the magnetism be at the ‘sides’? Would it not be different if it is longish
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Jens