sharky47

Here's a cool experiment we did at the shop......

Take a rare earth magnet and a peice of pipe made of either copper or aluminum - something that conducts really well. The inside dia. of the pipe needs to be enough that the magnet has plenty of room to freefall through it, 1/8 - to 1/2 on either side is good. the wall thickness of the pipe needs to be as thick as you can find - 1/4 is good. Now hold the pipe vertically and drop the magnet into it - it will not fall through, it will slowly descend through the pipe as if it were dragging on something. Somthing to do with induction I think, my friend explained it to me but I was too busy playing with the magnet........

AR10

Steve, that magnet will not deguass anything! It might magnetize it so bad
you could not stand to watch it, but it takes alternating mag. poles to deguass a CRT or anything else for that matter.

KuHL 951

Pardon my description I meant to say "It really fu %ks up the screen"...it makes those pretty colors though

Lumbergs Lackey....MmmmKay

LOL, don't eat magnets, nails, bleach, drano, etc.

White Pony

I would think magnets would not do crap... If the wearing surfaces of the engine were aluminum.

Steel etc yes...

Auminum no...

I'd suggest it highly to anyone running an auto tranny. THOSE have got metal wear flakes.

WolfeMacleod

That's exactly what happened, on multiple occasions. Neo magnets are the strongest magnets known to man. They can cnap together so hard as to break bones, cause welts and blood blisters, etc.

AndyK

Sounds like an urban legend to me. Who would eat one metal magnet, and later on, think "yeah, that was good, I think I'll have another"?

Imo000

I don’t get the logic behind this. The oil filter will catch all the particles which in majority will not be ferrous. And if they are, you’ll have larger problems than worrying about catching metal shavings. The engine will most like be on its way out anyways. Maybe he should stick to the woodo magnetic healing of the horses rather than trying to come up with the latest version of the “Tornado”!

Magnetic healing is nothing more than BS, I see those infomercials every now and then at 3am and just shake my head. Don’t you think if it worked people would be lined up to spend time in an MRI?

MyBlackCar

The magnets were attached to those building toys. Some kid broke one off and swallowed it. The company recalled the toys. I forgot the name, but it was on the news about 2 months ago.

Yes, only ferrous shaving will be attracted to the magnet. It does nothing for aluminum. Fun stuff. I I will try that pipe thing with the neo magnets I have. Is it just rubbing against the side when falling or floating?

Blue S2

Isn't there a product on the market in one of the catalogs for Porsche stuff that does this very same thing?? You attach it around the oil filter. Just like one of those "oil filter coolers" with the fins, its similar but its magnetic.

aribop

The oil drain plugs in our cars already have a magnet attached to the inside.

kevincnc

My drain plus is drilled out for an oil temp sender. How important is it? (the magnet)

Dsalillas

928 motorsports offers a magnet upgrade for your drain plug. Drain Plug Magnet

Z-man

Apparently, they are not that important - the 968 drain plugs do not have the magnet in them, but 968 owners can use the 944 magetic drain plug.

Most of the components that wear in our cars are made of aluminum, so the magnet won't catch that stuff.

Last year, after the install of my new head, my shop spotted some metal fragments in my oil, so they advised me have the oil filter cracked open and inspected. My suggestion to all '44 owners is to have their oil filter opened and checked annually. The filter will trap metal/aluminum fragments without any magentics involved.

-Z.

sharky47

^^^^^^^^ What he said^^^^^^^^^

I used to be an aircraft mechanic and we did this on every inspection, there is an acceptable amount of metal. This is how we determined whether or not to crack one open......