Tool demagnitizer

A tool demagnitizer was a type of bronze-colored^[3] demagnetizing tool rack^[1] 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.^[3] It was a useful instrument which allowed mechanics to shift the magnetic field of their maintenance tools to configure or remove magnetic capabilities.^[4]

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.^[1] The tool demagnitizer was sat in an alcove in the wall opposite Shmi's workstation in the Skywalker home^[2] on Slave Quarters Row in the city of Mos Espa^[1] on the planet Tatooine when she said farewell to Anakin before he left the planet^[2] in 32 BBY.^[5]

Behind the scenes

A tool demagnitizer appeared in the prequel trilogy film Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace,^[2] which was released on May 19, 1999.^[6] In the current Star Wars canon, the tool was identified in the 2017 reference book Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia.^[3] The name for the tool originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where it was first used in the reference book Star Wars: Episode I: The Visual Dictionary, written by David West Reynolds^[7] and released on May 26, 1999.^[8]

Appearances

• Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace (First appearance)
• Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser — Datapad

Sources

• Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia (First identified as tool demagnitizer)
• Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition

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