Stainless exhaust=load of horse****

[ontarian_frog]

Wooo people. Everyone is right. Cheap stainless is magnetic, good stainless is non magnetic.

[gse_turbo]

I was figuring everyone would connect the dots but... 316 stainless (300 series stainless) is very high quality and it IS magnetic, ie, the kitchen knife example. There are other stainlesses that have varying degrees of magnetism as well.

Chromium makes a metal "stainless" and Carbon makes it magnetic. You CAN have both properties in one metal.

[Thymeclock]

I was figuring everyone would connect the dots but... 316 stainless (300 series stainless) is very high quality and it IS magnetic, ie, the kitchen knife example. There are other stainlesses that have varying degrees of magnetism as well.

Chromium makes a metal "stainless" and Carbon makes it magnetic. You CAN have both properties in one metal.

This link (click here) will help "connect the dots".

To return to the initial point of the thread: just because a stainless steel component is magnetic, that doesn't mean it's not stainless steel. And that's a fact, not just horse manure.