Re: Seat heaters under leather...

[i6941TB@gnn.com]

Hi, Ernest. You asked:

>How do you get the headrests out. I've looked at that little plastic
>slotted ring many times without figuring out how to get the head rest off.

>From the inside ONLY. Stick an 11mm (3/8" drive) socket to it so that the split 
conical part of the plastic thing goes into the socket. Then smack the butt of the 
socket with a hammer. The socket will move forward, squeezing the ancored part of 
the plastic receptacle and it'll jump outta backrest.

>I thought the heating NiChrome wires were not solderable. Guess the wire
>doesn't get to the melting point of 60/40 solder. Always thought you had to
>use brazing to join those wires back together.

Correct, NiCr is not solderable. Aaaah, those clever Germans... They have woven 
the Cu strands into NiCr AND pre-tinned them too. The repaired seats have been 
serving me for two winters already.

Igor. 

Igor Kessel
the sweetheart: 200TQ, chipped and MOMO'd through out,
in Tornado "arrest-me-officer" Red;
the ex: 5000s, the EE's nightmare
Phila PA, USA
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