Windscreen wipers

[malc d]

Some time ago there was a tip on here to put corks under your windscreen wiper arms to lift the wipers slightly off the screen when your van is stored, or just parked for a long period, to stop them collecting the debris that gets washed down the screen.

I tried it early this year but found that in windy weather the arms would slip off the corks.

If you shave a bit off the side of two corks and glue the two flat sides together it works very well.

( Off course that means you will have to drink twice as much wine to get the extra corks --- but that's something you just have to put up with). ;-)

[Derek Uzzell]

The secret if you choose to use just a single cork per wiper-arm is to make sure it's a long one.

 

Personally, I've found the long cork from a magnum of Château Pétrus 2000 to be particularly effective, although, at approaching £6k per bottle, it's a mite expensive if you just want a cork for a wiper-arm spacer and (because of the credit crunch) I've recently switched to the 1995 vintage at a more sensible £2k-ish bottle-price.

 

My wife thinks I'm daft and asks why I don't just stick a nail through a couple of cheap shorter corks, or tie them together with a bit of old string or gaffer tape, but where's the classiness in doing that? Next thing she'll be suggesting that I use corks from slummy Chilean bottles of plonk from Tesco!

[cronkle]

I remember something of this coming up before and whether it was on here or another site the poster mentioned that this had been advised by an elderly Frenchman who had also said about heating up water for washing up by putting it in a plastic bottle and leaving it on the dash-board.

 

Seeing your post remindd me and so I tried the very trick this afternoon and guess what..........it worked! (heating the water that is)

 

Wouldn't try it with wine in bottles though.

[Way2Go]

Derek Uzzell - 2008-07-28 6:51 PM The secret if you choose to use just a single cork per wiper-arm is to make sure it's a long one. Personally, I've found the long cork from a magnum of Château Pétrus 2000 to be particularly effective, although, at approaching £6k per bottle, it's a mite expensive if you just want a cork for a wiper-arm spacer and (because of the credit crunch) I've recently switched to the 1995 vintage at a more sensible £2k-ish bottle-price. My wife thinks I'm daft and asks why I don't just stick a nail through a couple of cheap shorter corks, or tie them together with a bit of old string or gaffer tape, but where's the classiness in doing that? Next thing she'll be suggesting that I use corks from slummy Chilean bottles of plonk from Tesco!

Great post Derek . . . very amusing, I enjoyed your answer :-)  :-)  :-)