Rear demister

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Post Wed Dec 30, 2020 2:18 pm

My cab rear demister is sort of working,as the blower seems to be working but the window seems to take a long time to demist, I’ll take the air gets heated slightly,has the heater packed up.
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Post Wed Dec 30, 2020 6:06 pm

The heater element is not a great bit of engineering.

It is riveted together on a board and the board tends to burn round the rivets.

If you take it apart you may be able to get it working with some solder.

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Post Wed Dec 30, 2020 6:17 pm

Nice one, is that under the big main plastic cover held together with the silver clips.
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Post Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:04 pm

ah wrote:
Wed Dec 30, 2020 6:17 pm
Nice one, is that under the big main plastic cover held together with the silver clips.
Somewhere in there, yes.

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