Originally Posted by
bobotech
Oddly enough, I have come across quite a few stainless spokes that are faintly magnetic. I use an extremely powerful neodymium magnet that will cause blood blisters if you let it attach to a metal surface with your skin in between. Those magnets seem to even attract stainless spokes but just barely. Like it will cause the spoke to move a bit to the direction of the magnet but won't be able to be picked up by it.
Yes, as I mentioned in my first post about magnetic properties, stainless spokes have vestigial magnetism. But no nearly enough to be picked up.
Once anyone picks up a single plated spoke with a magnet, the difference between being truly magnetic, and barely so is as obvious as day and night in the desert.