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Subject:Re: DIY windshield de-icing solution?
From:Rocket J Squirrel
Date:Sun, 9 Feb 2014 17:44:29 -0800

"Cover the windshield with something.  I used to use some canvas. Held
on with magnets."

Works if you can reach above the top of the windshield.

--
Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
Bend, Ore.

On 02/09/2014 05:42 PM, Don Hanson wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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 <mailto:JordanVw@aol.com>
>     wrote:
>
>         In a message dated 2/9/2014 8:12:57 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>         camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM <mailto: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
>