----- 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

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> '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage," '85 GL "Poor Relation"