Can Magnets really damage your sewing machine - well, maybe if they were built with hard drives which still used magnetic strips like the old VHS and Beta tapes, but, the computer chip changed all that, and with the SSD's inside the more advanced machines - I will demonstrate on a £3000 machine ! Magnetic Seam Guides are useful tools to help achieve great sewing, but will they damage your machine, UsB flash drive or dongle?
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Consider the old floppy discs, vhs, and magnetic strips on old credit cards (before the introduction of microchips) which can be wiped clean, and very strong magnets (something big enough to lift a car bonnet) sat directly on a hard drive on a computer hard drive may wipe it clean, but even then it's not always the case. The magnet has to be very strong and even then it needs to sit exactly in the right spot to cause damage your computer.
The sewing machine doesn’t have a hard drive inside it. There are no moving parts, just like in a usb stick. The same fear is for usb sticks and flash drives, dongles etc. Which cannot be damaged by a magnet because there simply isn’t anything for the magnetic force to attract away from the memory.
Another myth, it doesn’t wear over time, it’s immediate. If it’s going to damage it, it’ll do it instantly... but it won’t... you’re safe, go and enjoy sewing those straight lines x
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