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I refinished my heater box. Pretty happy with the way it turned out. Still need to get a new blower and core but that’s the easy part. This thing was time consuming. I did a full disassembly and using the metal parts from my California truck and the plastic pieces from a New England donor, I made a box that’s about as close to new as I’m ever going to get. Hopefully good for another 50 years.
If anyone is wondering, this stuff is great for plastic adhesion. It really wasn’t needed as most of this box gets very little exposure but there was a light amount of dry rot on the surface so after cleaning that off I figured some UV protection was in order just for good measure. If I didn’t know it was on there I don’t think I would guess this was painted.
Looks great. Do you mind measuring the hole for the resistor? Mine was blown out in that area. I repaired it with fiberglass this weekend and have to recut the hole.
If anyone could explain what the resistor does here I’d appreciate it. Considering the manual controls of all this I’m at a bit of a loss here. That said I’m sure it does something or they wouldn’t have put it in there.
If anyone could explain what the resistor does here I’d appreciate it. Considering the manual controls of all this I’m at a bit of a loss here. That said I’m sure it does something or they wouldn’t have put it in there.
The resistor controls all speeds (except high) of the heater blower by limiting each speed by a measured coil which limits by "resisting" the current so a certain rpm is achieved for the fan. The resistor block is placed in the heater box so whatever fan speed is chosen that coil is cooled by the air that flows through the box. Each coil produces heat as it does it's job to resist. The filament of an old school light bulb is a resistor of sorts.
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