Xref: utzoo rec.humor:19910 comp.misc:5533
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!neoucom!tsn
From: tsn@neoucom.UUCP (Tom Napoletano)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Is there no end to computer folklore?
Message-ID: <1538@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 89 13:05:03 GMT
References: <6669@saturn.ucsc.edu> <Mar.14.12.44.24.1989.7465@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: tsn@neoucom.UUCP (Tom Napoletano)
Distribution: na
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
Lines: 17

>magnetized bench top

My father, now retired, worked for an electric motor manufacture and had
a similar magnetism problem with large shaft (5 foot +) motors.  It seems
that when the armature was pressed (forced) on the, shaft showed flux lines.

The fix that he (or they) came up with was to loop a couple of turns of
an AC arc welder electrode around the shaft and attach the stinger to the
ground lead.  Power up and down momentarily and check for magnetism.
After a couple of cycles the shaft was back in tolerence.

In response to the list of fixes that was posted a few days ago, I recall
that if you energize a coil around a steel rod and tap it with a brass
mallet you help align the fields and increase the over all flux.  Is
this true?
	(from "tech" notes for repairing the model T Ford)
						tom