Date:         Fri, 6 Sep 2019 22:37:39 +0000
Reply-To:     Paul Freese <freese.paul@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Paul Freese <freese.paul@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Magnets to capture rust particles in Fuel Tank
Comments: To: Richard Koerner <rjkinpb@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
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You sir are a wizard.

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  On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 5:16 PM, Richard Koerner<rjkinpb@SBCGLOBAL.NET> wrote:   Getting ready to take a roadtrip to Colorado; the last time I went there, I had a bad experience.  Fuel tank outlet got clogged with rust and debris; high altitudes and hot temperatures in late summer was my doom.  You know the drill....fuel pump cavitating, injectors starving for liquid gasoline not bubbly gasoline.  Got it all fixed with a new fuel tank.
Got me thinking though.  What about the idea of sticking about 12 neodymium (rare earth) magnets on the underside of the fuel tank?  Spread around.  The idea is that the inevitable rust particles that form will get attracted and stuck to the areas where the magnets are.  You wouldn't even have to epoxy them on or anything; they are very very strong.  So, instead of all these rust particles naturally flowing to the outlet, they are stuck at the 12 points.  Could buy a lot of time, decades even.

Back in 85 when my Vanagon was built, magnets such as these were indeed "rare".  Nowadays, they are readily available.
What do you think?
Rich
San Diego