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| Thread ID: 129706 | 2013-03-07 02:07:00 | Cleaning Car Windscreen | Pato (2463) | PC World Chat |
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| 1331704 | 2013-03-08 01:57:00 | Kaolin mixed with a little water and a lot of rubbing will remove acid rain drop marks and also Rainex coating. Mildly abrasive cream cleaners like Jif work well. Rinse well. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 1331705 | 2013-03-08 03:07:00 | Take the wiper blades of the car and give them a good scrubbing with detergent, in a wash tub basin. A fine bristle nail brush is excellent for this. Repeat the process until you can wipe the blade with a damp cloth and get no black smear on the cloth. It is surprising how much "gunk" the rubber can soak up. Complete waste of time cleaning the glass if you don't clean the rubbers. Professional tip. :) | BobM (1138) | ||
| 1331706 | 2013-03-08 04:24:00 | Agreed that clean or new blades wipe the screen better, but what you are trying to clean off is a collection of exhaust deposits, diesel fumes, road gunge, dead bug corpses etc. Maybe even road tar and emulsion. And that's only on the outside. On the inside is a collection of sneeze and cough deposits, cigarette or pipe smoke condensate, vinyl gunge and the remains of the last cleaner you used. Quite a mess to clean off isn't it. I wish though that the screen would fold forward so I could get at the inside better. | Richard (739) | ||
| 1331707 | 2013-03-08 04:36:00 | Agreed that clean or new blades wipe the screen better, but what you are trying to clean off is a collection of exhaust deposits, diesel fumes, road gunge, dead bug corpses etc. Maybe even road tar and emulsion. And that's only on the outside. On the inside is a collection of sneeze and cough deposits, cigarette or pipe smoke condensate, vinyl gunge and the remains of the last cleaner you used. Quite a mess to clean off isn't it. I wish though that the screen would fold forward so I could get at the inside better. Like they did in the olden days......MG TD......bobsclassics.com Another factor in the equation particularly for cleaning the inside of the screen, is how cotton dusters/cleaning cloths are washed. Softening agents added in a washing machine wash will make a cloth "greasy" and leave smears on the inside, these will show up when there is a suggestion of condensation. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1331708 | 2013-03-08 06:23:00 | Take the wiper blades of the car and give them a good scrubbing with detergent, in a wash tub basin. A fine bristle nail brush is excellent for this. Repeat the process until you can wipe the blade with a damp cloth and get no black smear on the cloth. It is surprising how much "gunk" the rubber can soak up. Complete waste of time cleaning the glass if you don't clean the rubbers. Professional tip. :) I swap precleaned near new blades every few months. When windows start getting too cloudy/spotted I use all kinds of cleaners, including a bit of jif as BobM mentions. But lately I been using microfibre cloths, I bought on ebay, either dry or with a little water. Works well, i.e. clear glass, if glass not initially too dirty or spotty. |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1331709 | 2013-03-08 09:49:00 | I use a product called "Nu Vu" it is great, gets all the road film off. Never tried it on inside of windscreen though. Yep microfibre cloths are good too. "Mr Muscle" type glass cleaners are pretty useless, they tend to leave a streaky film no matter how much you wipe it. LL |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 1331710 | 2013-03-09 06:16:00 | I would get s small bowl of hot water and squirt some Jiff (cream cleaner) in it. Scrub away in circles. Then rinse with clean water (on a cloth for inside) and finish with a paper towel and Meths (the meths evaporates leaving NO streaks). Watered down Jiff is also good for making your headlight clear if they have gone cloudy... |
Disco_Dan (16576) | ||
| 1331711 | 2013-03-09 22:11:00 | I had heard that in WWII, Brasso was used to clean the fighter Perspex canopies. I wonder if that would work with glass? | Bryan (147) | ||
| 1331712 | 2013-03-09 22:26:00 | I had heard that in WWII, Brasso was used to clean the fighter Perspex canopies. I wonder if that would work with glass? Not so much cleaning as polishing out scratches. 'Brasso' and similar grade polishing media is used for the final polishing stages of machined perspex. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1331713 | 2013-03-10 02:27:00 | What a lot of great hints of do's and don't's, all of which are much appreciated. In the end I washed the Screen down with hot water and dish washing liquid and finished it off with a damp chamois. Most of it has gone. I now just need a new arm and a new chamois. You can't beat elbow grease eh?. | Pato (2463) | ||
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