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Mike (Busone)
Registered Member
Username: Busone
Post Number: 338
Registered: 11-2004
Posted From: 71.37.166.42
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 - 6:55 pm: | |
Does anybody know of some sort of heat strips that can be applied to bus mirrors to keep the ice off? If not any ideas on building something? |
bill chisholm (Billybandman)
Registered Member
Username: Billybandman
Post Number: 107
Registered: 2-2001
Posted From: 198.236.64.22
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 - 7:19 pm: | |
I put an 1156 light bulb painted black, behind the glass, between the mirror and the frame.It has worked great for 13 years. I have both oon a switch in the cab. |
Tim Jones (Torquester)
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Username: Torquester
Post Number: 98
Registered: 12-2000
Posted From: 12.73.179.215
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 - 11:00 pm: | |
Hey I@n , I'm sorry that I posted a link to a bus parts vendor to try to help this guy out. I'm guessing that you removed my post because it was a form of advertising? I have no association with them, I was just trying to help.
Mike, You may e-mail me for this link or use the other half of the post that I typed (and was removed) which stated that you might be able to find heated mirrors in a school bus or truck boneyard, break the mirror and remove the heater strips fom the glass.
hth, Tq |
Tim Jones (Torquester)
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Username: Torquester
Post Number: 99
Registered: 12-2000
Posted From: 205.169.164.69
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 08, 2006 - 3:07 pm: | |
Oops,
Sorry I@n , I see now that you just moved it.
My bad,
Tq |
Ian Giffin (Admin)
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 946
Registered: 7-1997
Posted From: 70.55.230.68
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 09, 2006 - 11:44 am: | |
Tim,
Are you drunk, man? I haven't done anything! :-)
This bulletin board is chock full of links to everybody in the whole world.
Link away, friend!
Ian
www.busnut.com |
Tim Jones (Torquester)
Registered Member
Username: Torquester
Post Number: 100
Registered: 12-2000
Posted From: 12.72.169.15
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 09, 2006 - 10:35 pm: | |
I@n ,
I sure like how you take such an active role on your board. That is part of what makes this board the BEST bus board out there!
More links comming soon to a post near you. ;-)
Tq |
JJ Woden (Jj_woden)
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Username: Jj_woden
Post Number: 10
Registered: 10-2006
Posted From: 65.19.246.49
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 11, 2006 - 12:31 pm: | |
Mike, there is another direction you might go with mirror heat. Stainless steel wire and/or Nichrome wire is being used to heat things like injector lines for WVO. I use Nichrome wire on 12V to cut foam for RC airplanes. You would want to use a bit longer piece so it did not get that hot. I will not include any more info than this because I have not tried it, nor do I have any specific lengths, etc. but a length of wire spiralled and epoxied or siliconed(?) to the back of the mirror glass may fill the bill.
Others may have better input and more details than I have.
JJ |