"Paul" wrote in news:Y1tyb.44402$gr.39003@okepread04:

Anyone with an opinion or experience on magnetics to solve hard water
problems? Is this a bunch of bull**** or what?

The previous owners of our house left behind both magnetic and catalyst
"softeners" -- neither kind do anything useful. We had to replace all of
the toilets due to the huge amount of scale build up, and we bought a
proper water softener as soon as possible.