Shimming a card

[TheITO]

Okay. I bought an M5 and I absolutely love the haunted pack with the M5. But how the hell do you shim a card? I have no clue and Justin Miller doesn't explain it on the dvds.

[AsianSpade]

you can buy some or you can just get a thin piece of metal or tin, and glue it between two cards

[traumatised-magic]

you can buy some or you can just get a thin piece of metal or tin, and glue it between two cards

that is not how u make a shimmed card

a playin card is made of 3 layers...a thick center piece and 2 thin face layers

u need to strip off the two thin outer layers so u have the 3 pieces seperated

now take a piece of magnetic metal....some soda cans are ideal for this or u can just go to a metal work shop and buy thin sheets of metal

u can now either replace the whole centre piece of the card with the metal, but this will require u to cut the metal precisely, includin the curved corners

the best way to do it is cut a square piece of the shim metal smaller than the size of a playin card....cut the same shape out of the centre of the central piece and then glue everythin back together with the shim metal inside the cut out

i think its more complicated to explain than it is to do, but effectivly all ur doin is splittin a card and inserting a piece of metal inside....u cut away the section from the central piece to prevent the metal showin up as a bump under the surface of the card

[Bubba Smith]

I have not tried this, but I read that the security tags...that are a pain to remove from DVDs and electronic stuff have thin magnetic metal in them.

[traumatised-magic]

yes they do....the way they work is by magnetism so the thin piece of metal will be magnetic...they are just a bit of a pain to get open and i dont know how strong the magnetic attraction will be

[TheITO]

Thanks guys. I just tried it. It is a real pain to seperate them all into three layers. I'll keep workin at it though.