jeremyjohnolson
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Would this product be OK to use as the duct for the bilge blower in a V-drive wake boat? Or no, because it has conductive aluminum in it?
Thanks for the reply! So, it does fit, I can clear that up because I already installed it. I just started poking around here on the forum and found a thread where a lot of people said not to use aluminum dryer vents in the bilge because they can conduct electricity and I was wondering if I made a mistake, if this is the same. If so, no big deal, I can just take it out and replace with the appropriate material.
Aluminum does not conduct electricity , it does not have enough tensile strength to be used in this situation. Think of the diameter of the steel that's in there and if that was aluminum it would just bend and never return to form , unlike the steel. I think the description might mean that it is designed to attach to aluminum vents , I could be wrong in this day and age of marketing.
Hey man, while I appreciate your link, it could come without the attitude, that would even be better
But at any rate, thank you for the link! By the way, I probably spent the better part of an hour or two researching on my own before I posted anything, so just saying...Oh very nice, I did not know that aluminum does not conduct electricity. I thought it did. That is good to know. What I found in a Google search seemed to indicate that aluminum does conduct electricity while not as well as say copper, for example, it said it does conduct...but maybe it conducts so poorly that you might as well say it does not conduct? I don't know. One thing I do know is when I use to have metal fillings in my teeth if I bit down on aluminum foil I sure felt it as a kid and I thought that was because it was conducting electricity, is it not?