jacko
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| posted on 27/11/10 at 07:50 PM |
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Maybe snake oil /water pipe magnets
Some one i know has just got a new washing machine + a water pipe magnet thing
Do these Magnets work
YES
NO
Jacko
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BenB
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| posted on 27/11/10 at 07:53 PM |
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There's no evidence what-so-ever that they work. On the other hand there's no evidence that they don't work and to claim on the
warranty of certain domestic items in a hard water area you need some kind of "protection" device and they'll often accept magnetic
softeners (despite them being snake oil). So in that way they do work 
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JoelP
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| posted on 27/11/10 at 08:03 PM |
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complete junk IMHO, and i have had a good think about them (someone complained when i threw theirs out!  )
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LBMEFM
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| posted on 27/11/10 at 09:02 PM |
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Sorry, I read somewhere that they are useless
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LBMEFM
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| posted on 27/11/10 at 09:02 PM |
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Sorry, I read somewhere that they are useless
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LBMEFM
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| posted on 27/11/10 at 09:02 PM |
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Sorry, I read somewhere that they are useless
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steve m
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| posted on 27/11/10 at 09:05 PM |
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infact 3 times useless
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scudderfish
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| posted on 27/11/10 at 09:07 PM |
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Here's an experiment to try :-
1) Get some limescale out of the kettle
2) Place it near a magnet
3) Observe any reaction.
If calcium was affected by a magnetic field, wouldn't the pipe just block up where the magnet was?
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 27/11/10 at 09:28 PM |
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So how do they work?
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Triton
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| posted on 27/11/10 at 09:38 PM |
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you move to a place with nice soft water........simples
My Daughter has taken over production of the damn fine Triton race seats and her contact email is emmatrs@live.co.uk.
www.tritonraceseats.com
www.hairyhedgehog.com
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Stott
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| posted on 27/11/10 at 10:23 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by jacko
Some one i know has just got a new washing machine + a water pipe magnet thing
Do these Magnets work
YES
NO
Jacko
Given the choice, I'd say Jacko
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 27/11/10 at 10:41 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Triton
you move to a place with nice soft water........simples
Bugger that, I'm staying where I am where our water is hard. Don't want none of your southern nancy soft water!
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Benzine
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| posted on 27/11/10 at 10:50 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Ninehigh
quote:
Originally posted by Triton
you move to a place with nice soft water........simples
Bugger that, I'm staying where I am where our water is hard. Don't want none of your southern nancy soft water!
Hard water is best. Soft water areas have higher rates of heart disease and heart attacks too. In your face, softies.
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Peteff
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| posted on 27/11/10 at 11:13 PM |
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Our water is so hard the sink is scared of it. If soft water gives your machine heart disease I want none of it.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Liam
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| posted on 28/11/10 at 12:42 AM |
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Water's double 'ard round here. I got one of those things on my incoming in my new house (came with the boiler kit). I do seem to get less
scale build up on taps/the kettle etc than I've been used to growing up in my old home down the road. Is it anything to do with this thing? Who
knows. Probably not. If I recall, I read about them at the time I fit it - the description was something like the magnetic fields ionises the
particles that become scale so they repel each other and are less likely to combine and become scale - some bollards like that. I don't remember
being to convinced, but maybe it's working!
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snapper
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| posted on 28/11/10 at 07:02 AM |
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Limescale reducers are used where I live, plenty in the plumbers merchants but are usually an electrical winding round the water supply permanently
powered
I eat to survive
I drink to forget
I breath to pi55 my ex wife off (and now my ex partner)
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 28/11/10 at 09:01 PM |
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Water's triple 'ard at the moment here. I turned the tap on and it stayed in there!
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40inches
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| posted on 28/11/10 at 09:16 PM |
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I work in a hard water area (Domestic Appliance engineer) over the last 35 years I haven't seen
any difference, with or without.
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JoelP
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| posted on 29/11/10 at 06:43 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by 40inches
I work in a hard water area (Domestic Appliance engineer) over the last 35 years I haven't seen
any difference, with or without.
think we can call that 'case closed' then!
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