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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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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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