

| Subject: | Re: My windshield washer heater gizmo |
| Date: | Thu, 4 May 95 10:36:14 EDT |
> 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 > > Alistair, back to the drawing board > Of course this probably in retrospect might not work since the water standing in the copper tube will not circulate and will hence be colder than the rest of the radiator, only getting what it does by conduction, still seemed a real good idea when he thought of it. How about just coiling an extra long washer tube spiraly along a radiator hose for a couple of inches, holding it on with electrical tape or something, a long spiral should give a lot of surface for heat transfer if it there isn't too much of a back up for the pump to push it through. My thoughts John Anderson ja@coe.wvu.edu '71 Westy, '90 Corrado G60
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