Doktor
New member
I hated that right side blast furnace AKA fan vent. I called my service department, and was told that, "that's normal for the RT-S," I find it unacceptable to have to endure that continuously. You would have thought they would have addressed that, since it seems to have been a problem more or less for several years.
I'd seen the part that Spyderpops.com sells on the web, and it didn't seem that difficult to at least partially duplicate. I haven't been too affected by it, until yesterday when my wife and I were driving through Columbia, stop and go, stop and go, I had a pair of Croc's on and could not keep my foot on the floorboard, or the highway peg, now I'd just sprung for those highway pegs and was not looking forward to never being able to use them.
The ad on spyderpop said the designer had cut up his wife's cookie sheet, if I'd a done that, I would probably have made contact with another of her cooking tools, her cast iron skillet!!!!
I had a piece of aluminum flashing that I could use for the cover, I went by Lowes and got a package of pipe insulation with foil on insulated fiber self adhesive, the flashing was $2 and the insulation was just under $5. I cut out an opening at the rearward grommet fitted the curve, and left a 1" tab that went between the frame and the bottom piece of plastic, then lined the aluminum flashing with the pipe insulation, 3 small pieces covered the area exposed within the shroud. I've not been able to test it fully as the ambient temperature was much lower than yesterday, however, I didn't feel any heat at all. I also didn't see any rise above center on the temperature gauge, so tentatively, I think I've cured my croc cooker, and for about a $1.50, as I've still got more than half of the flashing, and nearly all of the insulation, which I can probably use in further Spyder insulating jobs.
I'd seen the part that Spyderpops.com sells on the web, and it didn't seem that difficult to at least partially duplicate. I haven't been too affected by it, until yesterday when my wife and I were driving through Columbia, stop and go, stop and go, I had a pair of Croc's on and could not keep my foot on the floorboard, or the highway peg, now I'd just sprung for those highway pegs and was not looking forward to never being able to use them.
The ad on spyderpop said the designer had cut up his wife's cookie sheet, if I'd a done that, I would probably have made contact with another of her cooking tools, her cast iron skillet!!!!
I had a piece of aluminum flashing that I could use for the cover, I went by Lowes and got a package of pipe insulation with foil on insulated fiber self adhesive, the flashing was $2 and the insulation was just under $5. I cut out an opening at the rearward grommet fitted the curve, and left a 1" tab that went between the frame and the bottom piece of plastic, then lined the aluminum flashing with the pipe insulation, 3 small pieces covered the area exposed within the shroud. I've not been able to test it fully as the ambient temperature was much lower than yesterday, however, I didn't feel any heat at all. I also didn't see any rise above center on the temperature gauge, so tentatively, I think I've cured my croc cooker, and for about a $1.50, as I've still got more than half of the flashing, and nearly all of the insulation, which I can probably use in further Spyder insulating jobs.
