At 04:41 PM 10/23/2009, Rocket J Squirrel wrote: >I'm pretty certain mine are verklempt. I'll poke and probe w/ a voltmeter >and see what the scoop is. It's heartening to hear that it's not a given >that the defroster strips may not have failed by now due to age. They're easily damaged from the inside, but don't AFAIK deteriorate by themselves. I think the paint is silver-filled. You can also probe the strips themselves to find a break in a particular strip. Where (along the strip) the +12 vanishes, there's your break. FLAPS has little bottles of conductive (copper-filled) paint for fixing them. Yrs, d |
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