• FiveMacs
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    7 months ago

    Why are you putting a magnet in a card. Won’t that mess up the data stored on the card while being read by the magswipe machine

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        7 months ago

        This is a non-recharghable magnet paper card from the Bucharest Metro Its just curiosity, I took the strip from a good card, sticked it to aother good one but it wasnt strong enough. Thinking about trying it again when im in Bucharest 1 month later

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            7 months ago

            Im not triyng to not pay. I pay for it, I dont gain anything for dong this, Im just curios

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              7 months ago

              What are you curious about specifically? The type of glue they used? If transplanting the strip will make it unswipeable?

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                  7 months ago

                  Of course you can, you’re only striping one at a time. You could put as many as the physical card can hold.

                  Best way is to apply glue the back using a regular glue stick. Put it in a book for a day till it dries. Then you’ll need to laminate the card with a non glossy coating to protect it.

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                    7 months ago

                    I think the practical limit would be 4, for each of the orientations the card can go into the reader.

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            7 months ago

            @sarsaparilyptus We’ve got guards on pretty much all the entrances, so the likeliness of you getting caught is pretty big (not guards as in Half Life, with guns or stuff like that, usually it’s just some old guy watching people there, but still).

            @sarmale

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        7 months ago

        My assumption is they were putting a second seperateagnet on the card to stick it to a fridge or some other metal thing…hence my comment🤦‍♂️