Tool demagnitizer

A tool demagnitizer was a type of bronze-colored, disc-shaped rack for micro-tools mounted on a similarly colored circular base plate. Four copper-colored wire coils then extended up from the rack.^[1] The enslaved Human Anakin Skywalker used a tabletop tool demagnitizer that also doubled as a tool rack for small instruments, as he was required to do delicate work with precision tools when restoring machinery.^[3] The device sat in a wall alcove opposite the workstation of Skywalker's mother, Shmi Skywalker, in the Skywalker home^[2] on Slave Quarters Row in the city of Mos Espa^[1] on the planet Tatooine. It was left on the shelf when Anakin packed his belongings and said farewell to his mother before leaving Tatooine^[2] in 32 BBY.^[4]

Behind the scenes

An tool demagnitizer appeared in the prequel trilogy film Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace,^[2] which was released on May 19, 1999.^[5] It was identified in the reference book Star Wars: Episode I The Visual Dictionary, which was written by David West Reynolds^[1] and released on May 26, 1999.^[6]

Appearances

• Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace (First appearance)

Sources

• Star Wars: Episode I: The Visual Dictionary (First identified as tool demagnitizer)
• Star Wars: The Phantom Menace: The Expanded Visual Dictionary

Notes and references