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