Re: [T3] Rear End sagging

["Dave Hall" <dave@hallvw.clara.co.uk>]

The attraction was certainly able to be felt; I'm sure it would have
picked up an M6 nut, for example.  I don't think I threw it away, so
when it surfaces again next time I sort things out in the garage,
I'll try it.

Dave.
UK VW Type 3&4 Club
www.hallvw.clara.net/
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org>
To: type3@vwtype3.org <type3@vwtype3.org>
Date: 10 October 1998 02:47
Subject: Re: [T3] Rear End sagging


On 9 Oct 98, at 0:16, Dave Hall wrote:

> Interested about the magnetism, and just on the off-chance someone
> out there would explain it.  Maybe they are all strongly
magnetised?
> Perhaps the production involved rolling them North-South, which I
> appreciate would magnetise them.

Forging changes the grain structure of the steel and seems to lock
in
whatever magnetic field is there when the forging is done.  It seems
strange that there would be much field there, however.  How strong
were the ones you tested?  Could you pick up a steel nut?

Jim
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