What would you do?

[snowleopard]

You have a wind generator whizzing round at high speed. Sounds alarming but the blades are carbon fibre and out of reach so even though they are razor-sharp there's no risk. Then you take the hub cap off and find this-

What would you do next?

 

[tonyran]

Er, run?

 

[Sgeir]

Errmmm

post the name of the model perhaps?

 

[landaftaf]

Re: Errmmm

put the hub cap back on

 

[Pie]

Re: Errmmm

Get your mother-in-law to sit under it.

 

[landaftaf]

Re: Errmmm

paint it

 

[landaftaf]

Re: Errmmm

take a photo of it and ask ppl advice what to do with it

 

[snowleopard]

Re: Errmmm

I sent the photo to the manufacturers of my 5 year old Air Marine 403. Their response was 'take it out of service and buy a new set of blades' The blades cost £115 plus postage.

So now my choice is to cough up in the expectation of having to do so on a regular basis or to think of a new solution to the charging problem.

 

[iangrant]

Re: Errmmm

I had mine shed one in a force 8. WOW.. cleghorn waring sell the spares.

Ian

 

[cliff]

Re: Errmmm

Guess who will not be buying an Air Marine wind gen then?
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[Mirelle]

Re: Errmmm

Make that two who won't.

 

[Gin]

I once had a carbon fibre rudder stock sheer off on a hard beat to windward in a severe gale, that too was very "upsetting". Since then I have been wary of the brittle inflexible nature of the substance- your photograph tells me nothing has improved with this stuff!!!

 

[snowleopard]

There's carbon fibre and there's carbon fibre. My mast is made from laminates containing fibres running the full length & width of the spar and is immensely strong. The 'carbon fibre' in these blades is tiny fibres stirred into resin and poured into a mould, not the same thing at all.

 

[eyupdougdown]

Hi there, apparently you hold the key to making your hull shine like a disco ball due to your hull being sanded and not faired. Is this true as I'd like the same as it's too perfect at the moment. Please advise. Is true that the rigging is worth more than the rest of the boat? Just interested /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[jimi]

I'd epoxy the cracks up.. and save the money

 

[snowleopard]

Get back under your bridge.

 

[Gordonmc]

Wear a tin hat.
Seriously, I would be tempted to tell the manufacturer to GIVE you replacements or you would post pics on a suitable yottie forum.
Er... but you've already done that.
This certainly reinforces my prejudice against wind turbines.

 

[eyupdougdown]

Call me a grass but Carl asked me to write that. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif I don't understand what it means.

 

[pessimist]

Can't see the piccie on this thread Chris. Saw the one you sent to Penny though and found it terrifying. Was thinking of an Air X too.

 

[snowleopard]

Strange that you can't see the pic - especially as it's on your server!!!