SCOTT LEWIS -- The term "HEAVIER" here is a bit ambiguous.
Does Alex imply DENSITY -(MASS per unit VOLUME, which is usually measured in GRAMS / Milli-Liter)- or does he mean the OVERALL WEIGHT of the assembled line guide.
I think that Alex is saying that the data from his weighings show that for the assembled line guide, the OVERALL WEIGHT of the SIC guide is lighter than the ALCONITE guide (and ALCONITE is lighter than the HARDLOY guide.) ...
The AMOUNT (volume or more precisely MASS) of Alconite needed to make a ring in a given frame may be more than the harder SiC. It really is a moot point unless you are a material Scientist or Mat.Engineer. ... The FACT is, as Alex has shown, that the assembled SIC guide weighs LESS than the ALCONITE guide in the same J-frame series, by about 10%. And the Alconite Y-frame guide weighs less than the Hardloy Y-frame guide.
Alex is Russian. His English may be a bit off in complex comparison. Maybe he means that Alconite is DENSER THAN HARDLOY. ... But you are right, Scott - and we all know - that an ALCONITE Guide WEIGHS LESS than a similar HARDLOY Guide.
I will edit my Post to remove that confusion, for which I now apologize. ...
Thank you, Scott Lewis, for calling this confusion to my attention.
Alconite may well be less DENSE than SiC and than Hardloy, but that is unclear from Fuji's claims. Since Alconite and Hardloy are two different forms of crystalline Aluminum Oxide, that density is proprietary information which Fuji is apt to keep unpublished. Any competitor can determine it with a little work in a laboratory. But even to the custom rod-builder, the overall weight of the assembled guide is what matters, IMO. We wrap whole guides on the rod, not isolated rings.
To re-iterate, for the Fuji Concept Guides, the SIC Guide weighs less than the ALCONITE Guide, and the ALCONITE Guide weighs less than the HARDLOY Guide for the same RING Size (mm) in the same style-shape frame.
FUJI does NOT publish guide WEIGHTS (MASSES), but they do publish the RING OD-ID-Width and some of the RING HEIGHTS above the rod blank.
A Dios, ... -Cliff Hall+++
FUJI RING HEIGHTS:
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www.fujitackle.com]
FUJI RING OD-ID-Width:
from the drop-down menu link
GENERAL INFORMATION
“RING SIZE CHARTâ€
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For practical purposes, consider any of the Fuji Y-frame or Vee-frame guides of whatever frame metal (or color) or ceramic ring material to have the same HEIGHT OFF THE BLANK as its analogous counterpart in another series of Fuji guides. The RING OD-ID-Widths will vary slightly with ceramic material for a given ring-flange type, but not much. A "Table of Guide Masses (Weights)" is unknown to me, which is why a nice top-loading scale (+/- 10mg) is on my Wish List. -Cliff Hall+++
NOTICE that FUJI:
Y-Frame RING-HT = ~ 2.0 x RING-OD
V-Frame RING-HT = ~ 1.5 x RING-OD
Y30 = 59mm
Y20 = 51mm
YSG-30J - 5.12g,
YSG-20J - 2.36g,
BYAG30J - 6.00g,
BYAG20J - 2.66g.
FUJI CATALOG, hard-copy:
from the drop-down menu link
GENERAL INFORMATION
“CATALOG REQUESTâ€
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