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Date:         Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:00:16 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Rear Window Defroster Strips Pretty Much Fugeddaboutit?
Comments: To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <4AE21506.9030604@gmail.com>
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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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