

| Subject: | Re: My windshield washer heater gizmo |
| From: | Frank E. Terhaar-Yonkers |
| Date: | Thu, 4 May 1995 10:10:08 -0400 |
There is a swedish outfit that makes these. The heat exchanger is a heavy piece of pipe with about 3 feet (or more) of tubing wound around. You cut the rad return hose (the big one) and clamp this thing in-line. The tubing is covered by plastic to hold in the heat better. It also has a check valve so when the washer fluid boils in the exchanger it causes the fluid to circulate back to the reservoir heating up the whole tank as you drive. I bought the thing at a SAAB dealer in Knoxville TN, don't know of another source, but it shouldn't be difficult to re-engineer. Had one for years on my SAAB before I got rid of it. Worked great - even good for summer use, the hot fluid melts bug goo really well. - Frank >Date: Wed, 3 May 95 19:02:15 CDT >Reply-To: vanagon@lenti.med.umn.edu >Originator: vanagon@lenti.med.umn.edu >From: Alistair Bell <ui775@freenet.victoria.bc.ca> >To: Multiple recipients of list <vanagon@lenti.med.umn.edu> >Subject: My windshield washer heater gizmo > > >As reported earlier, I had a 4" length of 1/4" copper tubing soldered to >the side of my rad. To this I connected the windshield washer line in an >effort to create an ice-destroying spray! Well, I completed all of the >connections last night and tried it out today...it doesn't work! the water >doesn't feel at all warm! I guess I should have used a longer bit of >copper tubing. Oh, well. I'll wait until next winter, maybe it'll have >some effect. > >Alistair, back to the drawing board > ============================================ Frank Terhaar-Yonkers High Performance Computing and Communications Research MCNC PO Box 12889 3021 Cornwallis Road Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709-2889 fty@mcnc.org voice (919)248-1417 FAX (919)248-1455
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