walkin' in a winter wiper land

[treed2 at wsu.edu (T. Reed)]

Mike,

Do you mean that you leave them flipped up vertically in the spring-loade=
d
"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 o=
n
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 s=
now is imminent, I always pull the wipers up off the window.  They never =
stick to the glass that way.
>
> Mike
>
> Dan Smith <sad_rocc@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Also, you can put a towel on your windshield at night and just remove i=
t the next morning and you'll be frost-free. Also, while you can scrape y=
our windows with a CD without damage, the bottom rounded end of a soda ca=
n 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 pro=
duct
> 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 th=
em...
> 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 you=
r
> 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.
>
>
> ATS - Patrick Bureau - txrocco@sbcglobal.net
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> =3D>-----Original Message-----
> =3D>From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
> =3D>[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of T. Reed
> =3D>Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:13 AM
> =3D>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> =3D>Subject: walkin' in a winter wiper land
> =3D>
> =3D>
> =3D>Okay, so really more drivin' than walkin'.. but I could be stuck wa=
lkin'
> =3D>if I can't see out of my windshield!
> =3D>
> =3D>...
> =3D>
> =3D>I put the antifreeze crap in my washer tank just now (and just in t=
ime;
> =3D>the temp just dipped to 29 F from 32 F in the last half hour) and I
> =3D>(stupidly) went to test out the jizzers without first chiseling the=
 wiper
> =3D>blades free from the windshield.
> =3D>
> =3D>The passenger side got loose but the driver side did not. I could j=
ust
> =3D>*feel* the splines strip as I watched in horror only the passenger =
blade
> =3D>go up and then back down again. Oops.
> =3D>
> =3D>So in this frigid weather I took the arm off, cleaned the aluminum =
dust
> =3D>out of the grooves (although there were no grooves left on the wipe=
r arm
> =3D>half), put the arm back on and torqued the shat out of it. Then I r=
ealized
> =3D>it wasn't positioned right, so I spent about 10 minutes pulling on =
it
> =3D>trying to get it to come back off. Got it off and discovered that b=
oth
> =3D>pieces had pretty looking splines now, cool! Positioned it right an=
d
> =3D>torqued it again. Problem solved.
> =3D>
> =3D>Now my fear is that this is going to happen again. What can I do to=
 keep
> =3D>my wiper blades from freezing to the windshield, uh, while I'm driv=
ing?
> =3D>I guess I could coat the windshield with astronaut-grade sex lube o=
r
> =3D>something. But the neighbors might think I'm a little weird. Oh bab=
y, oh
> =3D>yeah, don't freeze up on meh!
> =3D>
> =3D>...
> =3D>
> =3D>I mean.. what if it's not snowing, but then it starts snowing so I =
turn my
> =3D>wipers on, but they're frozen to the windshield? That would be bad.
> =3D>
> =3D>I suppose I should just get some of that spray-on deicing fluid.
> =3D>
> =3D>Duh?
> =3D>
> =3D>-Toby
> =3D>
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