Beware Of Cheap Imitations.
As with all products on the market, there are good and there are bad. So how does our product differ from the competition? Why pay a higher price? Well first of all you have to study the competitors products carefully in the following areas.
Magnet grade:
What grade magnets are being used? Quality magnets are extremely expensive, (Hence the cost of a quality loudspeaker)
We use the worlds most powerful type neodymium and state so in our adverts. Anyone using a magnet like this would be proud to say so as they are the most expensive part of the drain plug.
What temperature rating of magnet is being used?
Surely the competition wouldn't use the cheap low temperature ones that lose magnetism above 79 Degrees C would they? Sure they do...
Ours are of course the high temperature magnets that keep on attracting metal right up to 180 Degrees C. This is absolutely critical... **
What are they made of? Alloy or Steel?
My feeling on aluminium bungs V's steel bungs are that the aluminium is prettier, especially when new. However, magnets attach to STEEL not aluminum or stainless.
When the heat is on and your getting the oil hot, on the road or racetrack and especially in competition, aluminium expands more than steel.
Manufacturers using aluminium bungs have a tendency to press the fragile magnet into the hole as this is the cheapest way to fix it! It is entirely possible for the magnet to work its way out
into the engine and then attach itself to the sump pan or some other ferrous metal. A con rod? yes, we have seen it happen!
Steel however, has a natural attraction to magnets, a marriage made in heaven!! When the Dimple™ brand magnets are hand assembled and inserted into the machined hole, they want to stay there and you with your bare hands would have a heck of a time
getting the magnet out. We don't stop there though, a proprietary high temperature 2 part epoxy is used to fuse the magnet in place forever, leaving no doubt about
it ever coming out. Even if you came from the planet Krypton you could not get this magnet back out.
Aluminium also has the tendency to distort if not tightened very carefully, not to mention how easy it is to round off. Buying a cheap aluminium bung is false economy if you need a new one every other oil change because of damage.
Another reason we choose steel as a material is that the bung itself becomes magnetic and adds to the surface area in contact with the oil to help attract more particles. Finally, Have you ever tried to remove a stubborn bung made of aluminum? enough said.
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Don't drive along wondering if your cheap magnet has dropped all the metal back into your oil in one large dark metallic mass of deadly swarf because its got too hot, just fit the best you can afford and forget about it until your next oil change.
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