[AT] [OT How now rusty cow

[szabelski at wildblue.net]

The theory was that somehow the fuel passing through a magnetic field burned better. Don’t know how fuel gets magnetized since it’s non-magnetic. Even if it were to somehow change how the fuel molecules were organized as a liquid, this wouldn’t matter once it was vaporized through the carb. 

I remember seeing ads for add-on devices that you installed in the fuel line to improve mileage. I believe these were circular magnets in a small aluminum block. You installed it by cutting the fuel line and clamping the device to the ends of the cut lines.

If this really worked, I’m sure the automotive companies would have large magnets incorporated into their designs in order to meet or improve mileage in today’s cars.

Carl
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People were trying to use cow magnets to increase road vehicle MPG. I do not know if it was tried on tractors. No actual agency testing occurred. The practice died out so it must not have worked.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/10/19/cow-magnets-in-cars-are-new-rage-for-gas-conscious-westerners/156b93d4-363d-4fbf-b941-e15b13bb7823/

Bill Bruer AT List Member (bill_bru at bellsouth.net<mailto:bill_bru at bellsouth.net>); The cow magnet is properly known as a rumen magnet.  I kept one below the filter in the hydraulic filter housing on an IH Farmall 686.  It would always be covered in a fine metallic fuzz.  Happily, there was never anything larger stuck to it.