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Date:         Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:06:40 -0700
Reply-To:     Frank <frankb001@COMCAST.NET>
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From:         Frank <frankb001@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: Radiator fan debacle (86 Vanagon)
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----- Original Message ----- From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 3:09 PM Subject: Re: Radiator fan debacle (86 Vanagon)

> At 03:58 PM 7/21/2006 -0400, Kim Brennan wrote: >>Well. You should look at it sometime, and you'd find out why it >>costs what it does. it's about 3 1/2 inchs long and about 7/8th of >>an inch in diameter. It's a BIG resistor. And resistors, by their >>very nature produce heat. > > Sure they do. But the amount they produce is quantifiable and the > amount of cooling they need is also quantifiable and the idea of a > seventy-five dollar (or whatever) resistor being a consumable is > downright offensive. That's just plain shoddy engineering, if you > can even call it that. It gives German engineering a bad name and it > makes German arrogance about German engineering a bad joke. They > wouldn't dare do something so sloppy on an airplane. > > I, of German-English stock say this. >

Who says that this resistor is a 'consumable'? I have had 2 Vanagons (wih A/C) here in Hot S. Calif for over 15 years. Always did my own work on the vehicle. Never had to replace one of these. Lets get real.

Frank

> -- > David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ > '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage," '85 GL "Poor Relation"


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