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Originally Posted by aerohead
Two things came to mind.
1) The gears are hydrodynamically lubricated. In operation, they never actually make physical contact with one another. So we'd be working on a problem that never existed in the first place.
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In theory aerhead, but most geaarboxes have magnetic sump plugs that collect all the ferrous particles that 'don't occur'.
See the various other posts here and the end of your comment.
According to the maths the force between 2 like poles goes to infinity as the distance between them goes to zero:
https://socratic.org/questions/the-f...ionality%20%23
So, for the gear teeth at least, magnetising them should mean that what you said is true for the 1st time...
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Originally Posted by aerohead
Two things came to mind
2) Secondly, if one were to magnetize the gears, they'd be in a position to attract any ferrous metal debris suspended in the gear oil.
It would in essence be like pouring 'sand' into the transmission.
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Yep. And its not just the gear teeth; its the syncromeshes and 'gear lockers' ( that grate sometimes) that come into contact, producing particles.
The syncros are often non ferrous/magnetic brass, but the 'lockers' aren't.
So its just a crazy idea atm, unless a plan can be made there. I have some half baked ideas that may solve that.