"Jim Scott" wrote in message
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You have 24hrs and using 5 words or less to give your solution to removing
wax smears from a car windscreen. Your time starts now (12.33 am)
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Jim
Tyneside UK

"Aldi wax removal jig £4.99"


Do I win?

ETV

You have 24hrs and using 5 words or less to give your solution to removing
wax smears from a car windscreen. Your time starts now (12.33 am)
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Jim
Tyneside UK

"Jim Scott" wrote in message
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You have 24hrs and using 5 words or less to give your solution to removing
wax smears from a car windscreen. Your time starts now (12.33 am)
--
Jim
Tyneside UK

Urinate on it a lot.

There I used 5 words. Metallic T cut might work though.

"Jim Scott" wrote in message
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You have 24hrs and using 5 words or less to give your solution to removing
wax smears from a car windscreen. Your time starts now (12.33 am)
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Stick it in the freezer.

then gently bend it back so the wax comes away from the surface.

Or is that for a tablecloth?

You have 24hrs and using 5 words or less to give your solution to removing
wax smears from a car windscreen. Your time starts now (12.33 am)

I'll name this tune in one !

Rain-X

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But rain-x glass cleaner, not the rain repellant!

Jim Scott wrote:
You have 24hrs and using 5 words or less to give your solution to
removing wax smears from a car windscreen. Your time starts now
(12.33 am)

Meths!

Dave

But rain-x glass cleaner, not the rain repellant!

The rain repellant works - it says so on the bottle, and its worked for
me.

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"Jim Scott" wrote in message
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You have 24hrs and using 5 words or less to give your solution to removing
wax smears from a car windscreen. Your time starts now (12.33 am)
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Jim
Tyneside UK

Swarfega?

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:33:39 GMT, Jim Scott
scrawled:

You have 24hrs and using 5 words or less to give your solution to removing
wax smears from a car windscreen. Your time starts now (12.33 am)

Blow torch and angle grinder.
--
Stuart @ SJW Electrical

Please Reply to group

Lurch wrote:
Jim Scott scrawled:
You have 24hrs and using 5 words or less to give your solution to removing
wax smears from a car windscreen. Your time starts now (12.33 am)

Blow torch and angle grinder.

Bother, you beat me to it.

I could suggest "wire brush and Dettol, Ma'am.".

A bit of elbow grease and detergent might help.

Jim Scott wrote:

You have 24hrs and using 5 words or less to give your solution to removing
wax smears from a car windscreen. Your time starts now (12.33 am)

House Brick + Insurance Job

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OG wrote:

Stick it in the freezer.

then gently bend it back so the wax comes away from the surface.

Or is that for a tablecloth?

No, blotting paper and a warm iron for tablecloths so your advice must
be for windscreens.

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John Rumm wrote:
OG wrote:

Stick it in the freezer.

then gently bend it back so the wax comes away from the surface.

Or is that for a tablecloth?


No, blotting paper and a warm iron for tablecloths so your advice must
be for windscreens.


Windolene Original, a combination of white spirit and chalk. The white
spirit will dissolve the wax if it *is* wax. If it's a synthetic
wax-like polymer, very hot water/detergent will probably be your best bet.

Jim Scott wrote:

You have 24hrs and using 5 words or less to give your solution to removing
wax smears from a car windscreen. Your time starts now (12.33 am)

a mixture of solvent and detergent - say petrol and washing up liquid,
followed by a pure detregent, folowed by a normal vinegra or ammonia
type glass cleaner

In message , John
Rumm writes
OG wrote:

Stick it in the freezer.
then gently bend it back so the wax comes away from the surface.
Or is that for a tablecloth?

No, blotting paper and a warm iron for tablecloths so your advice must
be for windscreens.

The freezing thing is for chewing gum stuck on clothes etc.
--
Chris French

Jim Scott wrote:
You have 24hrs and using 5 words or less to give your solution to removing
wax smears from a car windscreen. Your time starts now (12.33 am)
--
Jim
Tyneside UK

I'd either remove it mechanically or try some strong solvents, keeping
them off the rubber trim, paint, etc. The FAQ says alcohol may work.
I'd also try white spirit and cellulose thinners.

Plastic ball type scourer first I'd say.


NT

wrote:
Plastic ball type scourer first I'd say.


Ouch!

"Jim Scott" wrote in message
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You have 24hrs and using 5 words or less to give your solution to removing
wax smears from a car windscreen. Your time starts now (12.33 am)
--
Jim
Tyneside UK

Autoglass. £50. Excess.

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wrote:
wrote:
Plastic ball type scourer first I'd say.


Ouch!

Oh yes, should be scoured regularly.

NT

In uk.d-i-y, Jim Scott wrote:
You have 24hrs and using 5 words or less to give your solution to removing
wax smears from a car windscreen. Your time starts now (12.33 am)

New car.

ObPedant: "5 words or fewer"

--
Mike Barnes

chris French wrote:
In message ,
John Rumm writes
OG wrote:

Stick it in the freezer.
then gently bend it back so the wax comes away from the surface.
Or is that for a tablecloth?

No, blotting paper and a warm iron for tablecloths so your advice
must be for windscreens.

The freezing thing is for chewing gum stuck on clothes etc.


Somehow I think they knew that and were being a tad tongue in cheek.
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On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:41:33 +0100, Mike Barnes wrote:

In uk.d-i-y, Jim Scott wrote:
You have 24hrs and using 5 words or less to give your solution to removing
wax smears from a car windscreen. Your time starts now (12.33 am)

New car.

ObPedant: "5 words or fewer"

Absolutely correct. Note what time it was )
--
Jim
Tyneside UK

wrote:
Jim Scott wrote:

You have 24hrs and using 5 words or less to give your solution to removing
wax smears from a car windscreen. Your time starts now (12.33 am)
--
Jim
Tyneside UK


I'd either remove it mechanically or try some strong solvents, keeping
them off the rubber trim, paint, etc. The FAQ says alcohol may work.
I'd also try white spirit and cellulose thinners.

Plastic ball type scourer first I'd say.


NT


I don't know of any wax that is soluble in alcohol, and it would be
difficult to keep cellulose thinners off the seal, which it would
probably attack

In message , Jim Scott
writes
You have 24hrs and using 5 words or less to give your solution to removing
wax smears from a car windscreen. Your time starts now (12.33 am)

Angle grinder, yawn

OK ?

Do I win?

OK, back to sleep then

--
geoff

In article ,
Jim Scott writes:
You have 24hrs and using 5 words or less to give your solution to removing
wax smears from a car windscreen. Your time starts now (12.33 am)

I spoke with Triplex about this after a garage waxed my
windscreen and I couldn't see out of it when it rained.
The answer is that it's difficult because the wax still
makes the water bead when there's only a single molecule
thickness, and it forms a weak bond with the glass which
makes it hard to get it all off, but not impossible.

Method is: First remove and discard windscreen wipers,
which once waxed, will keep transferring it back onto
the glass. Next, using white spirit and kitchen roll,
keep washing the windscreen and using new dry sheets to
wipe the white spirit off each time. Expect to use a
whole roll, mostly for the wiping off process. Work
methodically over the entire surface, being careful not
to recontaminate the area you cleaned. Finally, fit new
wiper blades.

--
Andrew Gabriel

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:33:39 GMT, Jim Scott
wrote:

You have 24hrs and using 5 words or less to give your solution to removing
wax smears from a car windscreen.

Easy, traffic film remover. Read the instructions on the container
though - and then follow them.



--
Peter Parry.
http://www.wpp.ltd.uk/

PM me with your address and I'll send you a free sample of a windscreen
washer additive that will, in a very short time, clear wax from your
screen.(I haven't yet got retail packaging sorted)

Jim Scott wrote:
You have 24hrs and using 5 words or less to give your solution to removing
wax smears from a car windscreen. Your time starts now (12.33 am)
Add Clearalex (from Halfords) to washer water - takes a few days but
very good at keeping screen clear of traffic filn in general use

In article . com,
says...
PM me with your address and I'll send you a free sample of a windscreen
washer additive that will, in a very short time, clear wax from your
screen.(I haven't yet got retail packaging sorted)

Sound like a great idea when half the windscreen wash usually sprays
over the roof.

On 30 Sep 2005 14:16:29 -0700, Mr Fuxit wrote:

PM me with your address and I'll send you a free sample of a windscreen
washer additive that will, in a very short time, clear wax from your
screen.(I haven't yet got retail packaging sorted)

It's here without the X.

Anyhoo it's now 12.37 on Saturday morning and nobody came up with wet
newspapers (old type wot makes your hands mucky). Works a treat.

Thanks to all who advised.
First thing tomorrow I have to try T-cut to get those grinder marks off )
--
Jim
Tyneside UK

"Jim Scott" wrote in message
...
You have 24hrs and using 5 words or less to give your solution to removing
wax smears from a car windscreen. Your time starts now (12.33 am)
--
Jim
Tyneside UK

Claybar, cleanest screen ever!

In article ,
TonyK wrote:
Claybar, cleanest screen ever!

Any water based fine abrasive should work. Some say toothpaste is as good
as anything. I used Farecla (paint cutting compound) to remove some paint
overspray from one door window and it removed the greasy fingerprints etc
as well. So T-Cut should also be fine.

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Sound like a great idea when half the windscreen wash usually sprays
over the roof.

It doesn't if the jets are adjusted correctly!

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:33:39 GMT, Jim Scott
wrote:

You have 24hrs and using 5 words or less to give your solution to removing
wax smears from a car windscreen. Your time starts now (12.33 am)

Get dad to do it?
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In article .com,
says...
Sound like a great idea when half the windscreen wash usually sprays
over the roof.

It doesn't if the jets are adjusted correctly!

Adjust them to wet the whole screen at motorway speeds and you're bound
to get some overspray at town speeds.

In uk.d-i-y, Rob Morley wrote:
In article .com,
says...
Sound like a great idea when half the windscreen wash usually sprays
over the roof.

It doesn't if the jets are adjusted correctly!

Adjust them to wet the whole screen at motorway speeds and you're bound
to get some overspray at town speeds.

The washers don't have to wet the whole screen, just anywhere within
reach of the wipers, which then spread the solution around. Works for
me, anyway, at any speed. But it used not to - I recognise the problem
you describe as a 1970s problem, and perhaps the difference is that the
cars I have nowadays pump a much greater volume of fluid onto the
screen. And the screens are more raked, I think.

--
Mike Barnes

In article , october2005
@mikebarnes.fsnet.co.uk says...
In uk.d-i-y, Rob Morley wrote:
In article .com,
says...
Sound like a great idea when half the windscreen wash usually sprays
over the roof.

It doesn't if the jets are adjusted correctly!

Adjust them to wet the whole screen at motorway speeds and you're bound
to get some overspray at town speeds.

The washers don't have to wet the whole screen, just anywhere within
reach of the wipers, which then spread the solution around. Works for
me, anyway, at any speed. But it used not to - I recognise the problem
you describe as a 1970s problem, and perhaps the difference is that the
cars I have nowadays pump a much greater volume of fluid onto the
screen. And the screens are more raked, I think.

That'll teach me to drive crap old^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hclassic cars then :-)

In article ,
Mike Barnes wrote:
Adjust them to wet the whole screen at motorway speeds and you're bound
to get some overspray at town speeds.

The washers don't have to wet the whole screen, just anywhere within
reach of the wipers, which then spread the solution around. Works for
me, anyway, at any speed. But it used not to - I recognise the problem
you describe as a 1970s problem, and perhaps the difference is that the
cars I have nowadays pump a much greater volume of fluid onto the
screen. And the screens are more raked, I think.

Trouble is all modern screens are laminated glass and rather soft. If you
don't flood the screen before wiping they'll get scratched, eventually.
Toughened ones weren't so soft. And most modern cars don't allow the
washers to be used independant of the wipers to soak the screen.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Trouble is all modern screens are laminated glass and rather soft.
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Toughened ones weren't so soft.

Hmm, interesting. Do you know any on-line resource mentioning that?