Just got a email showing a heated winshield sprayer. No more scraping ice it said. I'm in florida so not a big deal for me. LOL But for all you eskimos out there . BUT i'm thinking if it -20 it ain't going to matter. LOL

 

Yeah, yeah, yuk it up orange boy. Wait til July and you get all the heat, humidity and mosquitoes. Oh yeah, we get heat, humidity and mosquitoes in July too. I really hate living here.

 

There's not any ice on the windshield up in the hay mow?!? Hibernation is occurring.

 

I got the same e-mail too but i live up here in the rockey mountans in canada and minus 30 degrees celcuis is pretty cold nothing works right in that cold. I think this product is rubbish expecially here you can just buy the blue bug juice thats good to minus 40 centigrate. What do you all think is this rubbish or what?

 

Electric heated sprayers are apparently the law in Europe, my '86 Porsche has them as standard. The heater is in the nozzles. They cost $50 per nozzle. I doubt they actually are intended to melt ice on the windshield, I think it is just to guarantee the nozzle will spray the full pattern. They also have mandatory headlight sprayers that are also heated, and with their own pump. It is a very complicated ($$$) system that generates more than 10 psi, it really blasts out the water.

 

geez!! no more scraping windshields,yeah right!, when its -35 with a wind clill farcotr of -45, don`t think those nozzles would work! , fluid would freese mid air to your windshield

 

Those aren't for the north country where it gets COLD. They're for southern latitudes when they get a little frost on the windshield. It'll melt frost I bet.

Don't you just love marketing?! People writing something about which they have no clue trying to convince other people they just can't live without it.......... uh, er, wait, that sounds like what goes on here sometimes....

 

I don't mind frost on the windshield because even if mine is working I still wait until the windshield is warm enough that it won't just freeze right away. But it seems to me like it might help with nozzles frozen over so bad that nothing comes out.

 

This thread reminds me of the time I did a system installation in Newnan, GA in November of '89 or '90. The two electricians we were working with was two good old southern boys who were a hoot to work with. Their project engineer, Tom, was a young guy from northern Michigan. One day one of the electricians came up to me and asked, "Tom told us ya'all have a special tool to scrape ice off of yer windshields". I told him, "Yes, we do." He says, "You mean you have a special tool just to scrape ice off of yer windows?" I again answered, "Yes" and ask if they don't get frost down there, and what do they use. "Heck", he answered, "We just use a Dixie cup or a credit car." He then said Tom told him it gets so cold up north that we some times leave our cars run all day. I told him I remember doing that once when it got really cold when I was a kid and my old beater was the only car in the family that would start and once we started it we didn't turn it off. That was when gas a $1 a gallon. The guy was totally incredulous that we had special tools to use in the winter and that our winter sometimes called for extraordinary measures.

I've said this before but here is my retirement plan, if I can ever have the chance to retire, buy a new 4X4 and have a snow plow mounted on the front of it, then head south until I come to the first place some one asks, "What is that thing on the front of your truck?". I'll know I've found the place I want to live my life out. The plow will become lawn art.

 

I LIKE THAT BOB. If i saw a snowplow my first thought might be If you need that just buy a BACKHOE. LOL LOL LOL ITS 67 2DAY. DAM WINTER TIME !!!!!!

 

We're at a balmy 25° today with 4" inches of snow predicted tonight. Not as bad as some but bad enough for me.

I hate winter . I'm all for global warming, especially my part of the globe.

 

Mid 50's predicted here today, sun is out, life is good. There is a slight breeze that is a bit nipply but its all good. Come out west Bob, we'll make room for you and only slightly harass you about your accent and rust...LOL

No sense in me even looking at windshiled squirters, I don't have wipers mounted in the old truck anyway. A decetn cleanign with some Rain-X and I'm good for the year.

We do have to replace wiper blades yearly, the sun just eats them up
Bobby

 

Bobby, quite a few years ago Saturday Night Live had Tab Hunter as guest host. In one skit there was a news report about people being stranded somewhere in southern California and were interviewing stranged motorists. Hunter's character was terrified because the "breeze chill factor" was getting down to somewhere around 75°, that cracked me up.

The only consolation I can get from living in this God foresaken ice box is it's a lot easier to pile the clothes on to get warm in the winter than it is to try to get cool in the summer.

 

yea, but its a dry heat....lol it does get a bit toasty out here in the summer. I wouldn't do well where it gets cold, I suck at crap management. It all I can do to get up and get dressed in one set of clothes, let along 3 more sets on top of that...I'd be losing coats everywhere. As it is they all end up in my truck as you typically only need a coat (jacket) out here in the mornings, by lunch you take it off, toss it in the truck and forget it

Bobby

 

WhooHoo I hear ya Fred! Its 58 hear today and suppose to be in the low 60's for the next 5 days! Winters about over and here I just put 74 gallon of propane in my tank so I could work in the shop! Almost time to check the AC and see if its working!