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Nice repair Mike! I see you even marked the new one to get the exact same wraps as the original

I’ll let you in on a little secret. Lol
That heater in the pics that I made only lasted about 5 minutes. I got lazy and didn’t take the time to do the proper calculations and even though I copied the original exactly and the nichrome ribbon was really close to same dimensions of the original, the resistance was not the same and too low, so it overheated and burned out. I made another heater using smaller ribbon with higher resistance and it calculates out to be almost the same specs as the tag on the engine indicates. It also functions properly, believe it or not. 🤣