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Blueshift Ex Member	Re: Oil Drain Plug Reply #15 - 03/06/06 at 13:05:31 How about this...I was in Radio Shack looking for some #4 washer for my white spacer project and saw those rare earth magnet (real small powerful round magnet, for $1.99 each if I remember correctly), now if I stick one of them on the end of the old drain plug and screw it in, that would works the same, no?
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911radioman Ex Member	Re: Oil Drain Plug Reply #16 - 03/06/06 at 13:16:23 And if it comes off the plug inside the engine? Not sure I'd want to see those results...
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Blueshift Ex Member	Re: Oil Drain Plug Reply #17 - 03/06/06 at 13:35:11 Good point...but since the drain plug should be at a low point in the engine case, I doubt that the oil flow current has that much force to be able to displace this strong magnet, and if it does, the magnet will just stick to the inside of the case. Still risky all the same...
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Max_Morley Serious Thumper Offline LT650 Luxury Touring & sidecar rig Posts: 1490 Moses Lake. WA Gender:	Re: Oil Drain Plug Reply #18 - 03/06/06 at 13:41:18 What part of the aluminum case is it going to stick too?
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911radioman Ex Member	Re: Oil Drain Plug Reply #19 - 03/06/06 at 13:48:10 That was my thought too... IMHO, anything that is subject to floating around in the crankcase freely that isn't supposed to be there is simply asking for disaster somewhere down the line.
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Re: Oil Drain Plug
Reply #20 - 03/07/06 at 03:22:48

Blueshift wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:03:

How about this...I was in Radio Shack looking for some #4 washer for my white spacer project and saw those rare earth magnet (real small powerful round magnet, for $1.99 each if I remember correctly), now if I stick one of them on the end of the old drain plug and screw it in, that would works the same, no?

That's the kind of magnet I used for the installation of the bicycle speedo.

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Jim_R Ex Member	Re: Oil Drain Plug Reply #21 - 03/07/06 at 08:53:33 yup same magnet I used too. If it wont come off the wheel when Im going 80 so I doubt it will come off the plug. But a sudden pothole and who knows. I dont think its worth the risk personally.
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Reply #22 - 03/08/06 at 16:56:01

pgolden wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:03:

Try www.magneticdrainplug.com They are $8.99

Received it today. Quick response. Very satisfied.

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Savage_Rob Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Mechanically Inclined Amateur Posts: 6972 Texas (Dallas area) Gender:	Re: Oil Drain Plug Reply #23 - 03/08/06 at 17:17:06 Jim_R wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:03: yup same magnet I used too. If it wont come off the wheel when Im going 80 so I doubt it will come off the plug. But a sudden pothole and who knows. I dont think its worth the risk personally. Especially when the magnetic drain plug is only $9.
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Re: Oil Drain Plug
Reply #24 - 03/10/06 at 12:50:30

Got my magnetic oil plug today as well. Fast service and a great price. Looking forward to getting to Maine this summer, taking the old girl out of storage and do the "white spacer mod, main jet change, K&N, Progressive shocks, Supertrapp, Super Brace and perhaps an aux. gas tank so she will have longer legs" What a great summer I'm going to have!

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Re: Oil Drain Plug
Reply #25 - 03/12/06 at 04:47:08

Jim_R wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:03:

yup same magnet I used too. If it wont come off the wheel when Im going 80 so I doubt it will come off the plug. But a sudden pothole and who knows. I dont think its worth the risk personally.

I put a dab of 2 component epoxy glue on and around the magnet, just to make sure it stays in place.
Last 3000km it held perfectly.

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