[AT] [OT How now rusty cow

[Ralph Goff]

On 2020-02-06 9:18 a.m., Cecil Bearden wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> I remember in the early seventies there was a seed treater using 
>> magnets to improve the seed germination. I think it was just magnets 
>> attached to the down spout of the drill fill so that the seed grain 
>> passed

through the magnetic field on it's way into the seed box. Never heard 
much more about it.

Ralph in Sask.