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Nate Nagel Nate Nagel is offline
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Default windshield wiper misses glass for the middle ~3 inches.

David Combs wrote:
In article ,
Bill wrote:
I frequently need to "fix" or "modify" products so they work properly. This
is with brand new stuff which was not designed or manufactured properly to
begin with.

Lately I have been doing this a lot!

So... Try longer wiper blades. Maybe trim the lower portion off if it gets
in the way of something. Maybe get too long blades and the top goes over the
roof of the car at the peak, but maybe this does not harm anything and
solves your problem? Or maybe design your own wiper arm modification which
has an additional arm and spring to place a bit more pressure where you
want.


Sounds good. Really good -- hacking in extra pressure.

I couldn't do it myself, not so that it would stay on at
60mph, anyway.

Any suggestions as to who to do the work? (Some machine shop?)


Thanks!


David


If you want extra pressure on the blades, just bend the arms gently to
put more arc into them.

nate


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