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Posted: 20:16 - 29 Nov 2010 Post subject: |
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Of course you don't pour BOILING water onto a windscreen. Hand-hot is good enough. What you are aiming for is to have most of the energy in the water to be used up melting the ice, not spot-heating the glass.
Sense should tell anyone half-savvy that if you rapidly heat one of a laminated pair of glass sheets the stresses produced will be likely to break one lamination or even both. ____________________ a.k.a 'Geri'
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Nobody is suggesting you pour a bucket of molten lava onto a frozen windscreen.
All it takes is a pint of lukewarm water poured on the top of the glass. Cold water will work just as well, but I like using warm water because I'm usually cold when I'm doing it.
Instantly clear windscreen with no residual ice to fuck up your wipers, and, usually you can use some spare water to melt the jets on your windscreen sprayers too.
By far the best way. ____________________ Yamaha SZR660 Caution to the wind, the throttle pinned! |
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Quick method. (lock needs to be thawed out)
Spray grease, fire some of that in there to displace the water, no water = no ice.
Chain lube might work too
Proper method.
Remove the lock barrel, strip it down and clean it out, re assemble with new grease, that's what I did to mine last year and its not frozen since. |
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A bit of wd40 might do the trick, yes it is against ice in the lock, but it will free up sections at a time when you enter and exit the key a couple of times. When it is in, gradually rock the key left and right. But if it wont come it wont come, we all know that keys can easily break. But you could always use another door? ____________________ CBT: 12/06/10, Theory: 22/09/10, Module 1: 09/11/10, Module 2: 19/01/11
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colin : I once managed to thaw the (petrol cap) lock on my suzuki gs500 when I needed to get petrol. I did it by repeatedly heating up the key with a lighter, and putting it into the lock and leaving it for (say) 20~30 seconds to let the heat dissipate into the lock.
Eventually it melted the ice on the tumblers and I was able to unlock it, put fuel in, and carry on!
So you could try similar. Or if the car is on your driveway, just get an extension lead and a hair-dryer out. |
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colin1 wrote: | Blurredman wrote: | But you could always use another door? |
Unfortunately, I cant use another door, as its actually the boot lock I need to open, as the battery is stored in the boot, and I've had the battery on charge and want to put it back in to be able to start the car.
I'm liking stonesie's idea of spray grease, as I have loads of the stuff. Someone has already suggested wd40, but I've heard it can dissolve the great that should be in the lock, meaning the lock no longer had grease on its moving parts, just a thin layer of wd40 that wont last long.
So the spray grease suggestion sounds good.
Although I'm still a bit nervous of gunking up the lock with grease, so will see if pound shop has a gizmo. If not I'll try the grease. |
WD40, is not a de-greaser. Gunk is a de-greaser.
It works with stiff locks, stiff petrol caps etc. I don't understand why you think it won't do any good. You just spray a tad of WD40 in the lock and you'll be dandy. ____________________ CBT: 12/06/10, Theory: 22/09/10, Module 1: 09/11/10, Module 2: 19/01/11
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 13 years, 159 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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