TUFFIOM 24-Inch Rolling Magnetic Pick-Up Sweeper | 50-LBS Capacity, with Quick Release Latch & Adjustable Long Handle, for Nails Needles Screws Collection

Works well and easy assembly.

Absolutely brilliant. Purchased to collect stray nails etc after having a new roof. It collected nails even those lodged in gravel driveway. No punctured car wheels, well worth the money.

Used for collecting swarf at metal saw

Easy to build, and collects well

This is good - pulled out a load of screws from gravel drive, well worth the money. (Hopefully no more punctures)

Was great for collecting nails from the ground where I park my car (site used previously to store construction materials so lots of nails and metal bits left over). Saved me having to deal with punctures in my car's tyres. Great product, does the job well.

Didn't know what to expect but I was shocked at how much this picked up. Even tiny fibres of metal you wouldn't even know where there. Would 100% reccomened you buy this !!!

As described

This thing is a 10 out of 10!!!! It is, relatively, inexpensive. It is easy to assemble. It is light. It is easy to operate. It is easy to release recovered metal from the sweeper body. I used it in a field in a rural area to pick up metal while cleaning up a former homesite. As I rolled the magnet around, the metal made a “clinking” sound as it left its former hiding spot, flew through the air, albeit for a short distance, and struck the body of the sweeper. This magnet is strong!! The sweeper has a low profile and sits low so it is possible to scrub, or wipe metal from the body of the sweeper if you push it over high spots in the grass\weeds. Fine, simply go over the area several times, from several directions and get all the debris. I found our situation to work best as a two man team, one person raked and the other rolled the sweeper around. I continued to roll it around until I no longer heard those very satisfying “clinking” sounds. In all, in about 45 minutes, the sweeper picked up about 3 gallons of nails!!!! I filled a 5 gallon bucket about 3/5 full in 45 minutes!!!! I was very impressed. This was a very good tool for a very specific job and it worked very well! If you need a tool like this, buy one. You won’t be disappointed.

After reading other reviews, I decided that this product could be easily modified for improvement and it was. First, overall material construction is respectable as it feels like a quality product once assembled. The actual width of the area with magnet is 21.5" (not 24" wide). The magnet 'box' is 24", but the sweep area is less. Application is important as it may not be suitable for others. My application is merely to sweep my garage/shop for metal shaving and mislc hardware. Two minor flaws that potential buyers should be aware of: - As others have said, the spacing between magnets seems unreasonable with the only purpose may be to help reduce fabrication cost/expense. The attached picture shows the large gaps between Clean looking magnets. the other ugly magnets are those I added. - There should be a clamp down sleeve for the nuts on the wheels. As it is, you cannot tighten the wheel nuts fully because they will stop rotation of wheel. I had to back off slightly for general wheel movement. This causes a little slop in the wheels.. okay, but could be better. (This will be another mod that I do later). To compensate for the gaping between magnets, I had a cheap magnet sweeper from harbor freight. I took it apart, cut up the magnets (sloppy job) and used those magnets to help fill the gaps in the Tuffiom 24" sweeper (see attached picture). I did not try to be pristine or perfectly clean, but the added magnets seem to work rather well. I still have to sweep over the shop floor multiple time, but I'm okay with that as the small improvement helps somewhat. All in all, this magnetic sweeper works well on my shop floor and I'm perfectly happy with it.

Fortunately, assembling the sweeper was not difficult - even without the instructions. One day, perhaps, the Chinese manufacturers will start employing people, that have a good grasp of English, to write assembly instructions for these products. Without the illustrations, the accompanying written instructions would have been useless. The sweeper, itself, works adequately. Unfortunately, the magnet bar inside the sweeper chassis was inexplicably set at the factory to its highest position. I would have liked to reset it to its lowest position, but my hands are just too big to reach inside the chassis without cutting them to ribbons on the sharp metal. Again, it would have been helpful to have some legible, understandable instructions on the raising and lowering of the magnet. The bottom line, though, is that the magnet sweeper is adequate. I am disappointed, however, that I was unable to reset the magnet to its lowest position as, in the higher position, high grass tends to knock loose some of the debris that the sweeper might have captured on the bottom of the chassis.

Here are some assembly comments: Overall, the instructions were ok, but ..... 1). The instructions are written in broken English. They should hire someone that can write English normally. 2). When putting on the tires, do not screw the locknut down all of the way because the nut will push against the wheel and the wheel will not turn at all. You must screw the nut down till it almost touches the wheel. You know you are right when the wheel turns freely. 3). I didn't bother with trying to adjust the height of the magnet bar - just install it as it is. (I really did not understand their comments on how to adjust the height of the magnet bar anyway). But the sweeper did an good job finding nails around my house (after a new roof). If you crisscross your search pattern you will find more nails. Also, listen closely for the metallic cling when the magnet finds a nail. I recommend you carry a little plastic bag with you and scrap off the nails after each find before the grass scraps it off.

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