[AT] [OT How now rusty cow

[Cecil Bearden]

As I remember, this was supposed to align the molecules due to their 
static charge.  I remember discussing this with a fellow Ag Engineer at 
the time.  We could not determine the correlation between static charge 
and magnetic charge.  I think that was how the sham was developed.  Very 
few people remember their high school chemistry and physics.
Cecil

On 2/6/2020 8:53 AM, szabelski at wildblue.net wrote:
> 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/
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> 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.
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