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Old 01-25-2007 | 11:52 AM
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Default RE: Bypass material


ORIGINAL: HarryC

Is there a good reason for bypasses to be made from carbon fibre. The ones I have seen don't look like they would contain a blade failure any better than glasscloth. Is it simply fashion?

Harry
Hi Harry:

I think it is a multiple of reasons. Weight, strength, fashion, moderate heat resistance, thin side walls and stiffness. There is no way that CF will retain a blade, even the Kevlar ring that BV used to make supposedly did not hold one many years ago (I did not see it, but I was told so)...