walkin' in a winter wiper land

[smithma7 at yahoo.com (Mike Smith)]

Um, no, that's what I do.  I haven't had any problems with the "no-good-nicks" and there are no wind problems like that where I live (DC area).  Well, sometimes, but not as often as where you live.  Also, quite a number of people did it in my area, and I've not heard of any problems.  However, now that I live in a house with a garage, that's not an issue unless I'm at work, and then I'm in a parking lot in a business district, no schools near by.  :)  Sorry if I startled you with my gung ho style of keeping the wipers unfrozen.
 
Mike

"T. Reed" <treed2@wsu.edu> wrote:
Mike,

Do you mean that you leave them flipped up vertically in the spring-loaded
"erect" position? That seems like a bad idea because they would become a
"wow, lets break that off" target for no-good kids, and they would just
get blown back down by the 30-50 mph wind gusts that are fairly typical on
the open plains around here.

I must be misunderstanding you..

-Toby

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Mike Smith wrote:

> One other thing (wiper-wise): when I park outdoors in the winter and snow is imminent, I always pull the wipers up off the window. They never stick to the glass that way.
>
> Mike
>
> Dan Smith wrote:
> Also, you can put a towel on your windshield at night and just remove it the next morning and you'll be frost-free. Also, while you can scrape your windows with a CD without damage, the bottom rounded end of a soda can will scratch the shit out of your windshield.
>
> Dan
>
> ATS - Patrick Bureau wrote:
> Get a windsheild ice scraper, and get WINTER wipers yeah they do exists,
> made from a diferent rubber, also use WINTER glass cleaner, contain product
> to melt ice faster..... all those at your local autozone...
>
> start your car, turn on heater to defrost, let the heat (which hit the wiper
> are first btw melt onr loose the wiopers from the glass before using them...
> while waitting scrape ice from windsheild with ice scraper...
>
> BTW if your driving and your windsheild suddenly Freezes, turn the heat on
> your car on DEFROST (grin) and let it run for 1 mins before turning your
> wipers on. should do the trick...
>
> welcome to the wonderfull worlf of ice-age ...AHAHAHAHA
>
> ... and people ask me why I live in texas instead of canada....hint: Ya dont
> have to shovel heat.
>
>
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> =>-----Original Message-----
> =>From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
> =>[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of T. Reed
> =>Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:13 AM
> =>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> =>Subject: walkin' in a winter wiper land
> =>
> =>
> =>Okay, so really more drivin' than walkin'.. but I could be stuck walkin'
> =>if I can't see out of my windshield!
> =>
> =>...
> =>
> =>I put the antifreeze crap in my washer tank just now (and just in time;
> =>the temp just dipped to 29 F from 32 F in the last half hour) and I
> =>(stupidly) went to test out the jizzers without first chiseling the wiper
> =>blades free from the windshield.
> =>
> =>The passenger side got loose but the driver side did not. I could just
> =>*feel* the splines strip as I watched in horror only the passenger blade
> =>go up and then back down again. Oops.
> =>
> =>So in this frigid weather I took the arm off, cleaned the aluminum dust
> =>out of the grooves (although there were no grooves left on the wiper arm
> =>half), put the arm back on and torqued the shat out of it. Then I realized
> =>it wasn't positioned right, so I spent about 10 minutes pulling on it
> =>trying to get it to come back off. Got it off and discovered that both
> =>pieces had pretty looking splines now, cool! Positioned it right and
> =>torqued it again. Problem solved.
> =>
> =>Now my fear is that this is going to happen again. What can I do to keep
> =>my wiper blades from freezing to the windshield, uh, while I'm driving?
> =>I guess I could coat the windshield with astronaut-grade sex lube or
> =>something. But the neighbors might think I'm a little weird. Oh baby, oh
> =>yeah, don't freeze up on meh!
> =>
> =>...
> =>
> =>I mean.. what if it's not snowing, but then it starts snowing so I turn my
> =>wipers on, but they're frozen to the windshield? That would be bad.
> =>
> =>I suppose I should just get some of that spray-on deicing fluid.
> =>
> =>Duh?
> =>
> =>-Toby
> =>
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