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RE: Can someone explain 'magnaflux'?

To: "'Alan F Cross'" <alanx@proaxis.demon.co.uk>, healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Can someone explain 'magnaflux'?
From: healeyolic <healey6@optonline.net>
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 19:06:37 -0400
And I have a hairline crack in an Intake Manifold. Is this fixable? Or,
should I just trash it?

John Sims, BN6
Aberdeen, NJ

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-healeys@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-healeys@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Alan F Cross
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 6:47 PM
To: healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Can someone explain 'magnaflux'?

I've been to the Magnaflux web site, which has told me that that 
Magnaflux is an analysis method for defects in metals, not a defect 
'fixer' (which is what I once thought it was).

But what do you guys do (or have done) when you 'magnaflux' things like 
fan blades? Is this a DIY (dye) test, or do you send the components away 
to be magnetised, etc?

Supplementary question ... if Magnaflux finds a problem with fan blades, 
what do you do about it? Dump them, strengthen them, or something else?

Hoping to be wiser on this shortly! Now I've got my fan blades out, and 
cleaned of paint, I'd like to 'do the right thing' before I repaint 
them.

TIA

Regards
-- 
Alan F Cross (BJ8 "Ginny")




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