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Subject It won't weigh less than plastic because it won't be smaller
     
Posted by BobbyT on July 10, 2009 at 11:51 PM
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In Reply To really it's a cost vs benefit thing, I can't imagine a posted by LJZTT on July 10, 2009 at 09:22 PM
     
Message It's not a block of structural plastic whose strength needs to be matched; the blades are the size they are to push air. So you'd have a fan that weighed 1% lighter and was 150% stronger or something silly.

It's no different than those insanely expensive racing bikes. You go from a million gauge aluminum tubing, which gives you a 2 pound bike frame, to carbon that can't go much thinner and gives you a 1.7 pound bike frame. With a 160 pound rider, for an extra 4 grand.

Great if you're a TDF rider in the top .001% who needs that last microscopic edge; utterly pointless if you have a single pound of excess fat you could burn off. If your Z doesn't weigh <2000 pounds, the cf fan is a hundred items down the list of improvements that'll actually make a difference.

     
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