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Old 02-09-2009, 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by AC-460 View Post
I cut out all the fibreglass and went stainless on the guards... I covered the footboxes with stainless and left a 5mm air gap between the stainless and the fibreglass as a heat shield no heat insulation inside and its as cool as a cucumber inside. Go stainless it's easy to clean.
Thanks, another good idea. Only the tops of my foot boxes are fibreglass, the rest is powder coated steel so I wonder whether it would have the same cooling effect? Eg, steel underneath will conduct heat a lot better than fibreglass I would assume?
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