E BAVITE Neodymium Magnets with Screws — A Builder's Component
The E BAVITE neodymium magnets with screws are a screw-mount component, not a ready-to-fish setup — best suited for DIY builders who want to design something custom around a strong neodymium base.
These aren't a fishing magnet. Not exactly. They're a component — a neodymium magnet with screw-mount holes — and whether that's exciting or completely useless depends entirely on what you're trying to build.
At $16.99, they're cheap enough that you can mess around without stressing. If you've got a project in mind — a custom housing, a weighted frame, some kind of multi-magnet array you've been sketching on a notepad — these are the kind of part that makes that thing possible.
If you just want to get in the water this weekend, though, grab something with an eyebolt already on it and don't overthink it. These aren't for that.
I've got a drawer. Most people who've been doing this long enough have one — a random collection of carabiners, spare rope ends, a grappling hook that bent on its second use, a couple of magnets in various states of having-been-tested. The E BAVITE screws magnets are exactly the kind of thing that lives in that drawer. Not because they're bad. Because they're a part, not a product.
The screw-mount design is the whole story here. There's no eyebolt, no threaded center hole for a standard rope attachment. What you've got is a neodymium magnet with countersunk screw holes around the face — which means it's designed to be mounted onto something. A board, a bracket, a custom housing you built, a weighted PVC rig you saw on a forum at midnight and decided was actually genius.
And honestly? Some of those midnight ideas are genius.
I handed a set of these to a guy at a local outing — he'd been putting together a kind of double-sided weighted frame he could drag along the bottom of shallow canals, the kind of spot where a standard magnet on a rope just skips across the surface and doesn't make real contact. He needed magnets he could bolt into the frame itself. These worked for that. Pull force isn't published, which is annoying, but he said the grab felt solid on flat steel — the test being a railroad spike sitting in maybe two feet of water near a bridge that has apparently been shedding hardware since sometime around 1987.
The thing I'd want anyone to know before buying: you need a plan. This isn't a "throw it in a cart and go fishing Saturday" purchase. You need to know what you're mounting these onto, what hardware you're using, how you're attaching a rope or tether or whatever your retrieval system is. If you don't have answers to those questions yet, buy a magnet with an eyebolt and come back to these later.
The price is low enough that experimentation isn't painful.
What bugs me is the missing pull force spec. I get that it probably varies by surface contact area and how well you've mounted the thing, but a ballpark number would help people plan their builds. You're kind of flying blind on that, which is a real limitation when you're trying to design something intentional rather than just tinkering.
These are a beginner purchase only if that beginner is already a decent DIYer who's comfortable with a drill and has a specific thing they're trying to make. Otherwise they're for the people who've been doing this long enough to have opinions about custom rigs — and a drawer full of parts to prove it.
