Morris Minor Owners Club

Dear all,
Had a real "Brian Wave" recently and magnetised the steel dipstick in my brand new Lidl lawnmower, and after only an hour's running time see below for the metal that I wiped off the tip of the dipstick. More than I expected! I magnetized the stick by stroking it several times one way with another magnet, one of those cheap neodymium magnets that you can glue into your drain plugs.

So the obvious next step was to magnetize the dipstick in my 1098 Traveller. I've already got a wrap around set of magnets circling the oil filter and another one in the drain plug (in my opinion you can't have too many magnets in the system) but the special point of a magnetic dipstick is to have the advantage of something that's easily and frequently inspected. I'll let you know what it picks up.

Regards to all, MikeN.

" in my opinion you can't have too many magnets in the system "

I'm with you on that , looking forward to the updates...

John ;-)

What a 'stroke' of genius!
It should get less as I think most of will be machining debris.

Alan

The debris from the Lidl lawnmower is to be expected.
Such devices are barely run at the end of production, just enough to make sure they work, so bound to be some production debris present.

Without wanting to appear negative, I wonder if some metal debris might be dragged off the dipstick, when withdrawn, if there is little tolerance between the fit of block to stick.

les wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 1:07 pm Without wanting to appear negative, I wonder if some metal debris might be dragged off the dipstick, when withdrawn, if there is little tolerance between the fit of block to stick.

If so,it'll just end up back where it's been all this time...

John ;-)

If it sinks to the bottom before getting sucked through the oil pump.

No, I meant

" If so,it'll just end up back where it's been all this time..." , in the engine oil...

John ;-)

Ah right, I’m with you now.