Magnets on the fuel line intake

On Aug 27, 6:26*pm, Steve Daniels > wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:47:17 -0700 (PDT), against all advice,
> something compelled laurentien >, to say:
>
> > * * I am a engineering researcher and I can tell you that there are a lot
> > * * of ideas that are good but for some reasons were never used or each
> > * * time you talk about them, there is huge lot of uneducated sceptics
> > * * that make fun of you.
>
> When I was but a lad, back in 1970 or so, I would spend hours
> pouring over the J.C. Whitney catalogue, my longing gaze drifting
> over the tools, the parts, the accessories. *One of the things
> you could get from them was a magnet that clamped around the fuel
> line, and it was supposed to do all the things you are claiming.
>
> It sounded like bull**** to me then, and it sounds like bull****
> to me now. *I remember the first gas crisis (OPEC? *What's an
> OPEC?) and sitting in line to pick up the ten gallons we were
> allowed. *The auto manufactures, caught flat footed, started
> building the most ugly cars ever turned loose upon the streets of
> this fair land. *They were smaller, however, and got better
> mileage in an effort to compete with Datsun and Toyota.
>
> One would suspect that if a magnet would have helped with that,
> magnets would have been installed.
>
> I suspect your performance improvements exist largely in your
> mind.
> --
>
> Life is too short to play cheap guitars.

By the way, the RAF and USAF did put them on their fighter airplanes
during the WWII.

LHR