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Subject:Re: getting and staying bent...
From:Steve Johnson
Date:Thu, 12 Jan 95 13:41:45 PST

So Dan getting-twisted-and-bent Houg says:
> STOP!!!
> MIS-COMMUNICATION (...What we have here is a failure to communicate)
> 
> Don't bend the arm 'up and down' in a manner that would add or 
> relieve pressure on the glass.  Hook the cresent wrench on the flat 
> part of the arm and ROTATE the arm so that the blade angle changes 
> along the longitudinal axis of the wiper.  I guess this would more 
> correctly be called a 'twist' rather than a 'bend.'  It will make sense when 
> you go out to do it.  Hint:  place the wrench as close to the blade 
> end of the wiper arm as possible so as to give the maximum amount of 
> arm length for the twisting to occur.  
> 
> Let me know if this still seems futz'd up.  I hate trying to describe 
> things verbally-- if you could just see my hands....
> 
> 

So your twisting my arm eh? ;)  I don't see how this will help.  when
I get a new blade it starts out perpendicular to the surface and gradually
becomes biased one way.  Then you want me to twist the arm so it's perpen-
dicular again and then when I get a new blade twist it back?

Dazed and confused,

Steven

sjohnson@pcocd2.intel.com