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PostPosted: 20:24 - 08 Sep 2005    Post subject: I'm an idiot (tyre warmers) Reply with quote
Due to my recently found addiction to eBay and my medium term addiction to track days, I found a set of Diamond Tyre Warmers going fairing cheap on eBay over the weekend. Low and behold I won the auction for the decent price of £87 (normally about £150-160).

They turned up today, all looking good. Got home from work and grabbed the front one to plug it in and check it worked.

[stupidity mode on]

I rolled the tyre warmer round like it would be on the tyre, switched it on and went to grab a drink. Ten minutes I return to a dodgy burning smell and the fact that where the tyre warmers met in the middle (i.e. the section normally in contact with the tyre) they had melted together Doh! . I turned them off and pulled them apart, but now the cables (that heat up) are exposed and no longer held in place where the surrounding material melted (see picture).

Telling me I'm an idiot is not useful (I've cottoned onto that), but is there any way of fixing it, or is it screwed (I'm suspecting the latter, but you never know)?

Embarassed
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PostPosted: 20:29 - 08 Sep 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
I feel for you man... what matierial was it find some more and sew some new stuff over it.
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PostPosted: 22:12 - 08 Sep 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: 22:15 - 08 Sep 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
I think it's the latter unfortunately.

At my first race school a year and a half a go a rather slow power bikes rookie managed to fry his brand new set in the same manner - his had been provided by a sponsor as well.

I was amused, though felt sorry for him.
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PostPosted: 22:19 - 08 Sep 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
So what did you do wrong? Leave them on too long?
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PostPosted: 22:20 - 08 Sep 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
i knew you where an idiot before, but this just compounds it! Laughing
hope they are fixible and G is wrong for once Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 22:21 - 08 Sep 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
Dom_ wrote:
So what did you do wrong? Leave them on too long?


the heat created by them had no where to disipate to (tyre) hence they cooked themselves
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PostPosted: 22:30 - 08 Sep 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
G wrote:
At my first race school a year and a half a go a rather slow power bikes rookie managed to fry his brand new set in the same manner - his had been provided by a sponsor as well.


Well, at least I didn't do it in front of a crowd of people who could laugh at me. I posted it on a public forum instead... Eh?

Dom_ wrote:
So what did you do wrong? Leave them on too long?


No, they were only on for ten minutes, the problem was that they're designed to touch the tyre and not themselves. I was initially surprised that the material had reacted in that manner, but then again if it didn't then how would it transmit heat to the tyre? Oh well! Laughing

White Noise wrote:
i knew you where an idiot before, but this just compounds it! Laughing


Helpful as ever! Wink

I'll be on the bike siding gracefully into the gravel at my next trackday after the front gives way, but the back stays planted! Doh!
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