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• Air Breeze wind gen blades --UV degradation/weakening of blad edges? Anyone else experience this?
  • I find that the blades on wind generators are, in general,
    • I may have already regaled you with this incident...
      • Cool, Ron --thanks for the info. Never heard of the stuff. Seems worth it to get some...I see very good reviews of
      • Ron, I can see that just as if I was
    • I sanded my Kiss blades
      • Dan, do you mean you sanded and then painted them? (You said just "sanded".)
        • Just sanded them.
  • they will replace your blades
    • Great --thanks for the info! I was pretty surprised to see how weak the blades were after so short a time, and not even
    • Don't do it!!
      • I'm confused --Hotwire's site shows that they deal in KISS wind gens, not Air Breeze/Air-X
        • Yes, they carry the blades
          • Thanks again for the info, Dan. But I'm wondering if you're thinking about
            • Thinking back
              • Practical Sailor mag did a fairly extensive comparison of various models
                • I remember reading that when I was doing my research
      • Air Breeze blades are a warranty item
        • Perfect --thanks for clarifying. All makes sense now. I'll contact Air Marine.