Pantogragh style tracing torch project

[Frank S]

Did you figure out how to make the stylus?

funny you should mention that.
I bought 100 round magnets with a 1/2" hole in them. I was hoping to stack several together and use a 1/2" steel rod turned down at one ends and knurled but even with a 3" high stack of them there was not sufeincent magnetism concentrated into the bar to cause enough traction.
Then I found a small round neodymium magnet without a center hole when a 1/4" bolt was stuck to the end the bolt seemed to have quite a lot of magnetic attraction to the side of the bolt. This prompted me to order a 1" diameter 1" long Neo 52 magnet when I stuck a bolt on the end of it I could pick up a 10" crescent wrench with the side of the bolt. So I am thinking that pressing that magnet into an aluminum housing that I can push a turned down knurled cylinder of iron bar into the end will do the trick. The only problem is I put the magnet up somewhere and haven't laid eyes on it in a few months
I get a lot of these projects started only to have them tabled by something else that comes up then it takes me a while to ever get back to them.
Even now I an seriously considering adding another 30 by 35 ft. addition to my shop building for steel storage. and a sepperated 40xy 50 tented area to vehicle storage between a couple of van trailers. because I have to get someplace covered for the CT electric my 49 chevy pickup Ed's 59 Ford and a couple of my Mack trucks so we can work on them without having to bring them into the shop