Date:         Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:18:32 -0700
Reply-To:     Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Rear Window Defroster Strips Pretty Much Fugeddaboutit?
Comments: To: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@gmail.com>
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Jeepers, Jake, yours probably doesn't have a ground side connector that
has fallen off the window and has gone unnoticed all these years being, as
it is, hidden behind the curtain.

You attribute a level of observation to me that is unwarranted. I am far
less competent than I wish I was.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
Bend, OR
KG6RCR



On 10/23/2009 2:08 PM Jake de Villiers wrote:

> Geez Rocky, my '84 has 240,000 miles on it and they still work...
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Rocket J Squirrel
> <camping.elliott@gmail.com <mailto:camping.elliott@gmail.com>> 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.
>
>
>     --
>     Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>     84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>     74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
>     Bend, OR
>     KG6RCR
>
>
>
>     On 10/23/2009 1:27 PM neil n wrote:
>
>         On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Rocket J Squirrel
>         <camping.elliott@gmail.com <mailto:camping.elliott@gmail.com>>
>         wrote:
>
>             Subject line, I believe, says it all.
>
>
>
>         Since I have tinted windows, I never bothered checking mine. Just
>         assumed they, or wiring, were Gerfunktabooten.
>
>         One Fall evening, things finally got steamy enough to fog up.
>         Flicked
>         the switch. Much to my surprise, they work.
>
>         Given ours are both pre '86 models, and mine has much higher
>         miles on
>         it, I bet the strips themselves are fine.
>
>         Neil.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Jake
>
> 1984 Vanagon GL
> 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
>
> Crescent Beach, BC
>
> www.thebassspa.com <http://www.thebassspa.com>
> www.crescentbeachguitar.com <http://www.crescentbeachguitar.com>
> http://subyjake.googlepages.com/mydixiedarlin%27
>