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Subject:Re: DIY windshield de-icing solution?
From:ANTONY MARSH
Date:Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:08:27 -0500

Easy Solution;

Move to Florida.

Sorry

Peter Marsh
Naples  FL

On Feb 10, 2014, at 9:56 AM, Steven Shelton <shelton4@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Actually, Jeff, here in metro Atlanta, it is ILLEGAL to sell windshield
> wiper fluid that goes below +20 degrees Fahrenheit.  It's against the air
> quality rules.
> 
> 
> On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@gmail.com
>> wrote:
> 
>> The answer, then, is to use cheap vodka. Problem solved. QED.
>> 
>> Now the only remaining question is whether ethyl alcohol will damage
>> paint or rubber and plastic bits downstream on the vehicle. If not, then
>> I believe I have a solution. In a manner of speaking.
>> 
>> --
>> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
>> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
>> Bend, Ore.
>> 
>> On 02/09/2014 03:19 PM, Dave Mcneely wrote:
>> 
>>> ---- Angus Gordon <birdworks@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Dear Rocket J,
>>>> 
>>>> Listen to your ice scraper. Go back to the warm indoors and apply the
>>>> alcohol based fluids in Erienmeyer or other flasks directly to your
>>>> digestive tract. Soon the urge to travel will diminish.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> Just for safety, keep in mind that most deicing fluids used for
>>> automobiles are isopropyl, not ethyl alcohol.  Recipes for homemade that I
>>> have seen call for that, also.   :-) .
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Angus
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Feb 9, 2014, at 10:56 AM, Rocket J Squirrel <
>>>> camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> When ice forms overnight on my windshield, it's sometimes as hard and
>>>>> slick as glass. My handy-dandy ice scraper just slides over it. I get
>>>>> good results using the aerosol can of de-icing solution, but I wonder if
>>>>> I could save some money by mixing my own (Erlenmeyer flasks, dry ice
>>>>> bubbling in beakers of colored water) and keeping it in a Windex-type
>>>>> spray bottle?
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
>>>>> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
>>>>> Bend, Ore.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> --
>>> David McNeely
>>> 
>>>

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