Thanks for coming onboard about fixing those rear defrost lines.
Sorry Art, but he is a nice guy too!

I did not know there was another product out there for fixing them.

Guess, it makes sense that if someone has developed a solution for electronic board traces, an outfit like Permatex, would seize the opportunity to make a similar product. If nothing else they are akin to promote a product or products to fill their bubble pack packages for resale.

Sometimes, I wonder if they even make anything on their own any longer.

A lot of Loctite and Permatex products spoil right in the tube if ever opened. They just don't reseal. Guess its why, I don't look often or stock it until I get around to using it.

I think the product that I found will do the same thing as yours, EVAPORATE!
It comes with a tiny plastic stick that has a feathered edge. The whole thing is about 1&1/2 inches long.
By the time I get it all done, I will look like a permanent bobble head between the head rests. (:-)

I have used Circuit Works products before. It came in a pen you squeezed and shook the ball inside it. It also flowed from a spring loaded ball point tip.

They also sold a protective insulating liquid, that covers over the trace, made the same way. I web ordered it back say, 10 years ago, for about $10 for each tube. Tenths of an ounce mind you!
It's probably the reason I was surprised to find it hanging on a card! It Costs too much to stock!

Yes, the trick is maintaining a resin into flowing with the particulates fine enough and close enough together in the mix to conduct to each other. Either conductive or resistive material can be reduced into ionic proportions.

Just like in electroplating solutions I used in the Navy. The slip rings of auxiliary powered alternators get repaired and coated with rhodium. On top of that a thin film of gold to lubricate or wear into the carbon brushes.
The Navy had the bucks! In 1970 the rhodium was in a solution at $200 a pint! I couldn't even see the stuff in the bottle. Catalytic converters have since caused the price to be all over the map!

You wonder about me?
Yes for 17 years, I was a Stationary Engineer but that does not count towards a "gone to school" design engineer with an internship.

During my years, before the job above, I became a Journeyman Machinist. I worked for a couple small companies. Then I got hired into a large company where I cross paths with many talented and highly skilled tradesmen. We had our own "in house" engineers!
The company promoted collaboration as it made the company great. I loved working there.

I learned a lot and the projects were always challenging. I listened and paid my dues or homage to these older men that I watched retire.

This company was an exporter. We built whole plants around the world. We used to say, "From the ground up, including paper clips and toilet paper."

Unfortunately, during the mid eighties, the crooks moved into management.
It was purchased by parts of new management to clients from Canada and Europe. We had only one competitor in Switzerland so I don't know how many people got rich.
The company was split or broken down into pieces!
Retirements were diluted but I just did squeaked in my Ten years!

Back then, NBC's Brain William's special called it, "The Fleecing of America."
He meant only retirement plans. It was a lot deeper than that! I saw it as the beginning of a big sell out!
I Was 35 back then. I learned to look past the horizon and focus on how the manufacturing was disappearing in this country.
A real personal wake up call! The picture was very ugly for my older coworkers and I did not want to be caught in that like them.


Luckily, America's diminishing freedoms still allow change, you just change with it!

This was just before NAFTA was on its "fast track policies." The Old man Bush disgraceful legacy!
This was before the Ross Perot third party spoke up. Before the Internet Dot Com era, that disguised everthing.
Trust me, I'm watching the upcoming elections ... see-saw fiasco! It's sick on both sides!

It took a three more years into Aero Space contracts & Cryogenic projects. I was the R&D department! Never saw a patent bonus as the company kept them! A little paperwork detail paragraph, I missed during hiring.
Turned out to be a lying company with a profit sharing scheme too! With that, I changed careers.
It was also sold to a French company after I left! They actually moved in and have grown in size!

If you can't beat them, join them! I went to work for a state government entity. Fiqured I was indirectly working for governments through contracts anyway?

I tried teaching the metalworking trade for about three years. But my heart was not in it for my students. I was passionate enough but I was realistic. I was trying to sell a promise of a good job that I did not believe in.

With this new vision or instinct, I fell back on my HVAC Degree, from my G.I. Bill days.

Along with my various experiences it was relatively easy to become a Stationary Engineer!
The teaching pay level was an equal crossover. Stationary Engineers are like the "top dog of mechcanics" in the realms of plant operations.
Journeyman Machinist and Millwrights all cross fields.

I now have a good early retirement, that started at 55 for me. I got everything I'll ever need paid for.
That's including five Volvos and a collection of my trade toys.

I didn't waste money on new cars, just on some old ones! (:-)
All five of them, for the same money of one low-end mid priced car of today!

I'm 66 and still moving but I'm pretty sure it's at a slower pace.

Thanks for your thoughts on the subjects.

Phil