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Originally Posted by iroc343
The steel pan will shunt the magnet and very little to no magnetic force will get through the pan to attract metal particles. I work for a company the manufactures magnetic equipment and steel plates on the face of the magnet is how we shunt the magnetic fields to enable us to air freight permanent magnets. You probably ought to bite the bullet and take the pan down and put the magnet back in, your not going to sleep till you do.
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a strong speaker magnet will magnetize the steel pan bottom...this is the fact, as when I drop this pan, the round gray debris is formed exactly where the exterior magnet was installed...
your shunting of,,, isolation of ,,,the magnetic force would be correct if the pan where copper/stainless steel , or some other non magnetic material....
if anyone doubts this see if the magnet with a 1/8inch thick , flat steel sheet will pick up a steel nail...then you will understand why it does
work.
also I've done this for years on other vehicles,,,many years....
got the idea when they came out with the oil filter magnet,,,