Tool demagnitizer

A tool demagnitizer was a type of bronze-colored demagnetizing tool rack that consisted of a disc-shaped rack for micro-tools on a circular mountable base plate. Four demagnetizing units consisting of copper wire coils then extended up from the rack. It was a useful instrument which allowed mechanics to shift the magnetic field of their maintenance tools to configure or remove magnetic capabilities.

The enslaved human Anakin Skywalker and his mother Shmi Skywalker owned a tool demagnitizer as part of a collection of tools that they had mostly restored to working order after others had written the devices off as beyond repair. The tool demagnitizer was sat in an alcove in the wall opposite Shmi's workstation in the Skywalker home on Slave Quarters Row in the city of Mos Espa on the planet Tatooine when she said farewell to Anakin before he left the planet in 32 BBY.

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