Help finding heating wire.

[Swank]

One of our towel warmers recently bit the dust, so I took it apart to find out that the wire that runs through the chrome tube broke. It's pretty brittle in a few spots so I'd prefer to replace the whole thing with a new wire rather than solder it back together. It's about 20' long and I'm having a tough time finding where to get some. It looks very similar to this:

https://www.alibaba.com/product-deta...showimage.html

I think part of the problem is I don't know what the wire is really called so Googling isn't going so well. Thanks mateys!

[blubs]

At the end of the day that's extremely similar to what is used as freeze prevention for water lines/pipe.

Just find out what the temperature range and watt/ft and buy it at a Home Depot, or if you really get desperate reach out to a O'Brien or Thermon but they might require you to buy longer lengths than you would want.

[carson blocks]

I'm not an electrical engineer, but think you would want to be sure to match the resistance (ohms/foot), and the length of the wire so that the current draw and heat output is the same and you don't set your damned house on fire. I thought it was called 'resistance wire', but the searches I did for that show the uninsulated stuff you'd use for an open element.

[speedog]

Man, I need to get out more as I didn't even know there was such a thing as towel warmers. Most definitely I am not baller by any means because I suspect having a towel warmer is somewhat baller.

[cancer man]

http://www.heating-wire.net/index.ph...ex/id/61.html\

[carson blocks]

Originally posted by speedog
Man, I need to get out more as I didn't even know there was such a thing as towel warmers. Most definitely I am not baller by any means because I suspect having a towel warmer is somewhat baller.

I'm not baller either, I also use room temperature towels like some sort of caveman.

[Swank]

The only makings on the wire are 200°C/300V . And I agree, that the resistance should need to be right for it to work at the right temperature. It seems to work directly off 110 VAC, at least it's simple.

I only use mine as a towel rack (got it for free), it takes too long to heat up and doesn't get really all that warm. It's the exact same one the sis-in-law has and hers broke, so we traded. She uses hers to dry laundry in her apartment Now I'm trying to fix this one for when the one I traded to her breaks, and I enjoy little projects like this.

Fail this, I might try to replace the whole assembly with something more powerful, zero to hellfire in 10 seconds

[kenny]

Home Depot sells pipe heating cables.. not sure if its compatible (I imagine it won't get as hot as a towel warmer does). They also have floor heating cables but those are sold in pretty large sizes so that likely wouldn't work for your application.