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Tigerrrr.......
23-03-09, 07:19 PM
Anyone had any "bad" experiences with tank bag magnets affecting credit cards, mobile phones, etc?

Don't want to risk wiping my cards. Am I worrying unduly?

Cheers.
Thingus
23-03-09, 07:28 PM
I didn't even think of that, had my wallet in my tankbag a fair few times and nothing happened. Ppl might know different.
Bluepete
23-03-09, 07:34 PM
Three years with no problems.
davepreston
23-03-09, 07:37 PM
wont affect a thing mate ur just getting some gitters relax it'll be fine
sayani
24-03-09, 07:25 AM
Don't need to worry about credit cards especially now they are chip and pin.
Viney
24-03-09, 08:22 AM
Anyone had any "bad" experiences with tank bag magnets affecting credit cards, mobile phones, etc?

Don't want to risk wiping my cards. Am I worrying unduly?

Cheers.A couple of CD's that i copied got wiped. But to date, never had an issue with anything else.
arenalife
24-03-09, 10:33 AM
A couple of CD's that i copied got wiped. But to date, never had an issue with anything else.

That's unpossible! (Homer Simpson)
Viney
24-03-09, 11:12 AM
That's unpossible! (Homer Simpson)Well, they worked, i put them in my tank bag, they were 'stuck' on the bottom of my bag, they then didnt play, so not, it seems.
Dave20046
24-03-09, 11:24 AM
scratched? I didn't know cd's had anything to do with magnetic fields. thoguht they were literally burnt on via optics or something.
chompy
24-03-09, 11:29 AM
its proven that magnets dont affect credit cards, mythbusters did it hahah
nakedblue650
26-03-09, 08:55 AM
Useless on a 848!

nb650
AndyW
26-03-09, 11:32 AM
Well, they worked, i put them in my tank bag, they were 'stuck' on the bottom of my bag, they then didnt play, so not, it seems.
If you scratch the disk (crumbs/grit between magnet and disk) that might have done it.
wikipedia is your friend
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cd_burner

A recorder encodes (or burns) data onto a recordable ... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R) disc (called a blank) by selectively heating parts of an organic dye (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dye) layer with a laser. This changes the reflectivity of the dye, thereby creating marks that can be read like the pits and lands on pressed discs.
For rewritable ... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-RW) media, the laser is used to melt a crystalline (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal) metal alloy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alloy) in the recording layer of the disc.