That's a good idea, but I'm not really sure where you could do it and have it be reliable. There's a magnetic drain plug on it now that was empty and it was only 10 or 12 inches from where I found the schrapnel deposit.
It's definitely not teeth. Well out of the entire pile there was one little tiny piece that looked like the very edge of a hardened race or gear. I'm suspecting that a piece of the other material was compressed out on the radius of a gear and possibly the pressure chipped off a small piece...
While doing a hydraulic oil service at 1600 hours, I found the pictured debris right down at the sump screen. The metal is like a sheet metal, unlike anytime I've ever had a bearing go bad. The odd thing is, the rest of the fluid was like new. There wasn't even a speck of debris when I...