SKS firing pin became magnetic

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Hey everybody, so while cleaning my rifle today i noticed something really weird. My Firing pin had become magnetic. However neither the bolt nor bolt carrier became magnetic. It is strong enough to pick up the cleaning kit tube (no cap) and is stronger at the tip than it is at the rear.

Does anyone know why this may have occurred? Before anyone asks, no magnets nor electronics have been anywhere near the rifle or parts thereof.
 
I had that happen once before too but haven't had it happen since , super weird for sure.
I dry fired mine (snap cap if you got it but no real biggie if not) a few times and it went away/unmagnetized.
 
This seems to be a wider spread phenomenon than I initially thought. There appears to be a few other posts on other forums directly related to the SKS, but it seems to become quite common expanding the search to all firearms. It even seems to stretch to other parts.

Many people seem to offer suggestions to degauss the parts rather than source the origins. I did a quick look into magnetizing objects and one method seems quite similar to the mechanics of a firearm.

Point a piece of metal towards magnetic North and begin striking it with a hammer on one end. Over time, it will start to take on a weak magnetic charge.

Understand why this works. The added energy from striking the metal allows the atomic-level magnetic domains to rearrange themselves in a magnetic field. Since the planet's iron core produces its own magnetic field, these miniature magnets rearrange themselves to point north. Once enough jostling has occurred, all these miniature magnets pointed in the same direction creates a magnetic effect strong enough for us to notice.
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Source: Wikihow
 
cool, so it's similar to how you can run a magnet along a pin to align the domains but it scrambles them when you drop the pin. only in this case you're providing shock to it while constantly aligned to a magnetic field letting it do the aligning for you. Neat...

That actually explains everything. From where i sit to do my gun maintenance (and by extension the majority of my dry firing) to my "safe area" is almost spot on magnetic north.
 
ht tp://classroom.synonym.com/magnetize-things-6377.html

Striking

Step 1​
Align your object so that is pointing along the north-south axis of the Earth. Use a compass if you do not know which direction this is.

Step 2​
Strike the object with a hammer repeatedly. This shakes the atoms out of their domains, causing them to realign to the Earth's magnetic field.
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Sounds plausible then!
 
This is the consequence of the electron's spin. What did you do to bugger up the spin? It is the spin that causes the magnetism.

You did something to these parts to change the spin, so what did you do? Only you can answer this one.

I once had the electrons of my entire body spinning in the same orientation inside an MRI machine. Once the outside force is withdrawn from interacting with physical objects, electrons will return to their random orientation. The MRI profiles various tissue by scanning the electrons as they return to their original spin unique to each tissue.

Replicate the experiment and tell us just how vigorously you rubbed your gun parts to induce a charge. Were you wearing wool socks on a shag carpet and dragging your feet with part in hand? Or are you the one causing all of the lightning around my neighbourhood?
 
mikethebike said:
like a wizard!
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Just don't report to RCMP that you have magnetic firing pin. Could end up very bad for all SKS owners. Last time some Ivan's mod caused a lot of fuss.
 
Since the sks has a floating firing pin, would there be any issues with firing the gun with a magnetized firing pin? would the pin stick and be more likely to start slam firing because of this?
 
Deathrawt said:
Since the sks has a floating firing pin, would there be any issues with firing the gun with a magnetized firing pin? would the pin stick and be more likely to start slam firing because of this?
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Any magnetic charge the pin received would be a fairly weak charge. You're more likely to have issues with dirt/debris that a magnet strong enough to hold a firing pin in place.
 
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