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Date:         Thu, 11 Aug 1994 14:59:33 -0400 (EDT)
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From:         Jonathan Dove - VAX Master <JDOVE@gsvms2.cc.gasou.edu>
Subject:      Re: cost of heat exchangers

>From: David Schwarze <schwarze@io.nosc.mil>
> > And BTW, why are those suckers so outrageously expensive in the first
> > place? It's just a bunch of pipes and sheet metal, isn't it? Not some high
> > precision performance part?
> 
> Yup.  Just a question of supply and demand.


Has anyone ever taken one apart?  I thought that the reason they were so
high was because of the way they are made.  From memory,  I think that 
it is casted with the heat sinks part of the pipes, welded and covered
up with sheet metal.  I don't know if the manufacturing process is what
drives up the price considering it is just pipes and sheet metal.  


Jonathan
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Jonathan Dove   jdove@gsvms2.cc.gasou.edu
82 Rabbit PU, 83 GTI, 85 Vanagon, 87 Golf
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