Hot or Not? Silverback Magnetic Glove
By Sean O'Hara
The Silverback magnetic glove is basically a fingerless glove with a big-ass magnet slapped on the back of it. We can see uses for this; it’s always cool to have a readily-available place to store a few metallic odds and ends.
One concern: if you’re doing automotive work, we could see that big-ass magnet pulling your hand towards every stray piece of steel in the engine bay — of which there’s a great deal nowadays. And that bulky magnet strapped to your fist might prove to be a tight fit — especially with nuts and bolts along for the ride.
Of course, a different arena such as roofing might show the Silverback magnetic glove in a better light, though we don’t know many roofers who carry around fasteners anymore. But what do you think? Let us know in comments.
Street pricing starts at $7.
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December 13th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
concept is good but white fingerless gloves? Not hot…
December 13th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
Won’t work for a roofer, the nails are aluminum…. I have a pair and find them helpful working on the car or small projects. Handy for trim work when hand nailing. the biggest problem is how many items it doesn’t work for that the parts aren’t ferrous.
December 13th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Take off your watch and don’t handle credit cards.
December 13th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
These aren’t supermagnets. It only takes a tiny magnetic field to hold screws, and it takes a VERY strong magnetic field to wipe a credit card or damage electronics. These won’t cause problems for you.
December 14th, 2007 at 3:25 am
I found that these were extremely useful when I was rebuilding a wrecked bike. The small, and I do me SMALL, stainless steel bolts that held on all of the fairings were a nightmare to try and keep track of both when removing and installing the fairings. Being able to put the correct number of the correct size bolts on one of the magnets for whichever particular fairing I was working on was a HUGE time saver. Honestly, I didn’t even care about the glove part, all I used them for was basically a wearable magnet, but being fingerless made it a ton better for me since the pieces I was handling were mainly very small and required a lot of dexterity. Overall I’d say hot, at least for my specific application.
December 14th, 2007 at 5:52 am
I have them, but never use them…. if that tells you anything.
December 14th, 2007 at 8:02 am
I’d say not. If anything, I’d rather my choice of gloves and a magnetic wrist/arm strap at the very most.
December 14th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
I like the idea of an armband with a bunch of magnets better. Accessible but out of the way too.
December 14th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
How did the stainless parts stick? Stainless is for the most part non-magnetic.
December 16th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Yet another solution in search of a problem
December 17th, 2007 at 10:39 am
I dont know about these. I use magnetic Wrist bands extensively when installing or removing screws, especially off of ladders, like shutters.
December 17th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Sorry, mistyped…they were not stainless as you pointed out. It was about 3:30 in the morning when I submitted that so was a little tired. Anyway, the gloves were none the less handy for what I used them for.
December 17th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Maybe hot for doing overhead work up a ladder or something, but if that spent a day in my metal shop it would be covered in grinder dust in no time.
February 25th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
No problem with them wanting to grab onto motor parts as mentioned above. They are strong magnets, but not THAT strong. Handy place to put nuts and bolts for small or quick repairs
I have used them screwing sheet rock, much better than pulling screws out of a pouch, pocket or mouth. I have used them shingling, galvanized nails hold very well. When you get one of those little packs of nuts bolts and screws for assembling different things, they will often hold the whole bunch, keeping them very handy and hard to mis-place. Will hold a decent supply of nails too.
They are no longer being made by Illinois Glove or called Silverback. They are being made and distributed by GRIP tools, Grand Rapids Industrial Products, and they are definately HOT!!!