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Originally Posted by jaydee
The way I see it is the wall of the tube is a fin. All you are doing is making the tube wall thicker in those spots. I would think that would make heat transfer worst in those spots as you add a joint and make the metal thicker. Certainly could be wrong though. I am far from rad guru.
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I'm no rad expert either... are we to assume the fins do little to actually aid in heat transfer? If so, then yes this idea is crap. If they do aid in heat transfer, this idea should work very well, the air flows over the horizontal fins which cool the vertical part of the fins attached to the tubes. I guess we'll never know unless we can find a comparable rad with horizontal fins. I also fail to see how bending the fins in the horizontal fashion is more expensive than bending then into a zig-zag?
And maxSaleen, it's MOOT, not mute.
I got razzed about using mute instead of moot and now it's your turn!