Re: wipers

["Dale D. Baker" <flounder@umich.edu>]

> 
> 
> One of the best wiper systems I ever saw was on a Mercedes benz. It was a
> single wiper arm too! It was one trick piece of work in that it came out
> from under the cowl and it was long as to reach the end of the windshield
> and a s it went up, it was on a sort of cam where it would retract down
> so the top of the wiper blade stayed on the windshield and the bottom of
> the blade swept the little area that most wipers leave the half pie shape
> in. Then it moved back up again to sweep the drivers side of the
> windshield and repeated. It was very trick, even if it was only a simple
> stupid wiper arm. 
> 
My mom's 190 E has the one wiper and it does a great job...it also
attracts a lot of attention because where my parent live is american car
territory and they have never seen anything with only one wiper...saw my
first foreign car in that town when i was 8.  It was ours...

Dale 84 8v



>  
> >> oh and the " stone-guard thingie on the driver-side wiper" is actually
> >> meant to add pressure on the blade at high speeds to keep the blade 
> >on the glass . . . 
> >
> >Yeah, yeah, so I goofed up, so what?   :-)
> 
> 
> Just tell them to get a good lawyer...... :-)
> 
> 
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