At last, some inventiveness on the use of magnets

Magnetic swarf pickups in oil sumps aren't new, of course, but here's a
novelty. I was led on to here from another site which mentions fastening
a couple of old HD magnets to the oil filter.

http://www.filtermag.com

I'm actually impressed by the amount of magnetic swarf picked up by a
simple magnetic band pushed around the oil filter and even the
application of it to a fuel filter makes sense, if there's swarf
contamination in the fuel, but they just had to go and make a claim
tooooo far...

http://www.filtermag.com/fuelsys.php

"Impact 2. FilterMAG's sheer magnetic force destroys the single celled
microbial infestations that can reside in the fuel-water interface
because these cells are positively and negatively charged. The magnetic
force kills them and rips them into sub atomic particles that pass
through your injectors to be burnt with the fuel and then passed out as
exhaust."

Frankly, I'm surprised they didn't go the whole hog and claim increased
magnetic effect on the fuel molecules leading to better economy. But
maybe they're hoping the customer will think that might be the case.

Help! I'm being ripped apart by magnets!

 

Heh.. there was research done by someone about using strong electrical
fields to alter the properties of fuel on its way to the engine.
Apparently, they got some positive results under lab conditions.

I use an old hard disk magnet on my gearbox drain plug to capture
ferrous fines going around with the oil, which is also a good thing to
be doing. Since there is only 80cc of oil in there.

In my 4 stroke bike owning days, I used old hard drive magnets to trap
ferrous fines too, in the oil filter... because oil flow is slower there
and it's the bit you throw away when doing an oil change. All good.

A friend used to use magnets to reduce rust in his old van, so he said.
It wasn't rusty... but he also waxoiled it too, and washed it from time
to time. So who knows.

 

Although that swarf would never get through the filter anyway. Sticking it
in the sump so it never gets as far as the pump would be more use.

 

Right. I've owned bikes with magnets built into the drain plug(s)
before. Always interesting to see gets stuck to them.

A fish around in the drained-out oil wiv a magnet-onna-stick sometimes
turns up some interesting (read: worrying) bits. In the case of my
XS750 triple, many years ago, two or three gear teeth.

 

Heh.. I can relate to that. My gearbox was put together by someone that
didn't read the instructions[1], and promptly ate an extra[2] shim or
two. That generated a heck of a lot of metal when the hardening wore
through on the gear teeth.

[1] The same shop that bent my disk.
[2] Wrongly placed

 

Hardly worth it though.

 

Right. I've owned bikes with magnets built into the drain plug(s)
before. Always interesting to see gets stuck to them.

A fish around in the drained-out oil wiv a magnet-onna-stick sometimes
turns up some interesting (read: worrying) bits. In the case of my
XS750 triple, many years ago, two or three gear teeth.


2nd/3rd gear engagement dogs were a usual find in my pre-Halco XS650's oil
changes. Strangely enough, the 'uprated' Halco gears I fitted were actually
XS750 parts supplied (at cost) in Yamaha original packaging. I kid you not.

JB