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Subject:Re: DIY windshield de-icing solution?
From:Don Hanson
Date:Sun, 9 Feb 2014 17:42:40 -0800

You could head back to So Cal...it was in the 80s here in SD County today.

Now for a real suggestion... Cover the windshield with something.  I used
to use some canvas. Held on with magnets.  Just whip it off and go...
There'll be frost inside, but that nasty freezing fog or rain, that's
avoided.
On Feb 9, 2014 5:23 PM, "Rocket J Squirrel" <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yeah BEN -- how cold does it get in the Bay Area where you live?
>
> Two weeks ago it 7was 6666666666666 (ignore that part, the cat walked
> across the keyboard) -15F here in the morning. Care to pour a bunch of
> hot water on yer Vanagon windshield then?
>
> --
> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
> Bend, Ore.
>
> On 02/09/2014 05:18 PM, JordanVw@aol.com wrote:
>
>> In a message dated 2/9/2014 8:12:57 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>> camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM writes:
>>
>>      > Why not just use warm water. That's all I ever use.
>>      >
>>
>> try that out here  and youll end up with a cracked windshield..
>>   even with warm water (not hot) ive seen windshields crack.. the
>> temperature change is too abrupt and the glass snaps
>>
>