On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Lyle Bickley wrote:
How do you heat them? How do you know when
"enough is enough" heat?
I take a lamp with a strong light bulb (ordinary 100W or a halogen lamp)
and hold the tape near the bulb. I constantly move the tape so there will
be no overheating at some spots. Actually you can see when the belt goes
from the sticky to the non-sticky condition. Before it
has a whitish
coating, when applying heat to the belt it gets black again and might
show
a shiny surface.
The advantage of this method is that you can see what is going on and
react accordingly.
Christian