neomydium foot braces

dang you don't got a webcam to snap a shot? You wear them in your shoes during the day I might try that sometime, but I'd be afraid I'd forget about them and jump, or run whatever and break them might make me tired sometimes too. Maybe your lower body lacks energy not wearing footbraces, but did you ever try both at the same time it feels best to me. What did you mean by you made a new version, new braces? I bought replacements for the rings from magnet4less so if they get too old I just pop two new ones in.

Thanks guys for the clarification; I suppose that it should be assumed that the neo-braces were discontinued several years ago. (Mine are about a year old) About putting them in your shoes: It would be a simple matter to sandwich them between buffers -the thickness of the bottom insert I would think to be irrelevant, so only the top layer's thickness would be a factor regarding interference, correct? Else you could possibly encase or dip them in a soft rubber-like material. Obviously, comfort is a factor. Hey, what about cutting into the inserts for magnets? My problem is that my right side is the one that has the weakness, but according to what is here written, it is forbidden to wear only the right footbrace.

yeah it's forbidden and dangerous

If Ozaki reads this I'm curious about your foot braces. You said you used 2" wide magnets. Did you put them side by side to make 4" wide braces as Alex shows on his site and if you did don't they have to have opposite polarity to be side by side? When you put two magnets beside one another with say north on top on each one don't they repel and try to flip? I've never got that part of the 8 2" foot brace model so I bypassed it and went with the 4"ers but finding 4" magnets with 1" thickness and width could be challenging. I was able to get them to stick together on their sides to make 4" wide magnets. Since they're quite strong if by change you try to put the wrong sides together the repellent force of the magnet will be very strong. I used a polarity tester and mapped everything out to make sure I wouldn't have that happen and drew out where everything was going before I even separated the magnets. They weren't exactly easy to work with, to say the least. If you start separating magnets before knowing exactly where everything needs to go forget about it. Although the 2" long magnets tend to be stronger than the 4" magnets, I would still recommend using the 4" magnets for anyone thinking about building them. Even the "crappiest" neodymium magnet is more than powerful enough for the project, and it's probably not worth the hassle for most people to get 2 2" magnets to stick properly on their sides.

I thought the 4" ones were stronger they do list more pulling force unless you mean generally 2" magnets come in N52 and N50 strength I got these N50 4" magnets http://www.magnet4less.com/product_info.php?cPath=1_5&products_id=277 and returned these http://www.magnet4less.com/product_info.php?cPath=5&products_id=52 , but tested them and figured out that the sides won't stick together when polarities are the way Alex says for them to be and they were weaker

I bought the ebay rings and they suck I'm going to send them back. They are a better fit for my thumbs than my little fingers plus I don't think I like the use of plastic in these. Maybe I'll come up with something in wood. Those are some pretty serious magnets you got there wow, did you make braces for them yet?

I tried with a metal strap like in the instructions, but either my strap was too weak/flexible, or the magnets are just way too damn strong :lol: I think I'll try it with wood eventually I'll probably need 1/2"-2" thick wood I'm guessing and a real thick dowel. I got those same ones you got(4x.5x.25) and made some wood ones. Did you use a square dowel or circular I'm guessing circular?

Yeah I used circular dowels. Maybe for the larger super strong magnets you could cut notches into the ends of the dowels to fit the ends of the magnets into. On mine I just use tape to hold the magnets in place but for those it would take a bit extra I bet.

what is dowels? what is notches?

A dowel is a solid cylindrical rod, usually made of wood, plastic or metal. In its original manufactured form, dowel is called dowel rod. (wiki) You probably hang your clothes from something that can be called a dowel. In this application, you are cutting a dowel into short pieces to form a support for your braces. If you cut notches into the ends of the dowels to fit the ends of the magnets into you should have a pretty sound setup. I'd tape the magnets to the top and bottom wood pieces too of course. Here is an image to give you an idea. The notches you would have to make according to how wide your foot is.

Red=dowel, blue=magnet

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