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Thread: Getting ready for the winter: Sharpening your ice scraper.

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    Quote Originally Posted by James Pallas View Post
    Hey Malcolm
    I didn't know snow happened in Texas. I thought it just blew through until it hit the Rockies. Now sand piled up 2 feet deep, I can believe that!
    Jim
    We have a true 4-season climate: early summer, summer, late summer, and the cold day. And yes, it snowed on the cold day. Once. It was Super Bowl day too.

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    If your tires aren't rolling, you can't steer or brake, just skid/slide.

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    As a Galveston County resident, I have NO idea what this string is about.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Patrick Chase View Post
    Indeed. The worst snow/ice drivers of all are the inexperienced ones with AWD/4WD.
    This is pure urban folklore at its finest.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bruce Haugen View Post
    Spoken like a true Firesign Theater devotee, Rocky!
    You caught me.

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    Love it Jim!
    Tick bit yahoo comes from Festus from the radio version of Gun Smoke.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Vanzant View Post
    If your tires aren't rolling, you can't steer or brake, just skid/slide.
    True, but sometimes you can't steer even with the tires rolling. That's where adding some power in FWD/AWD/4WD can be handy. Of course by the time you get there you've already made at least one mistake, but it happens.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Vanzant View Post
    If your tires aren't rolling, you can't steer or brake, just skid/slide.
    There is such a thing as a controlled slide. I demonstrated this while in the Chicago area one winter. Came to a stop perfectly in our parking space. Kind of shocked all the people in the van that a California boy could do such a thing. It is all physics.

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    I noticed no one asked the Most Important Question in this discussion:

    How much harder is it to make a smooth drink with ice that has tight interlocking grain ice?

    OK, I'll get my coat now. Mine's the one with the ice scraper with the chip breaker in the pocket...

    -Tom
    Last edited by Tom Stenzel; 11-30-2016 at 10:20 PM. Reason: Make comprehesible. If possible.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Stenzel View Post
    I noticed no one asked the Most Important Question in this discussion:

    How much harder is it to make a smooth drink with ice that has tight interlocking grain ice?

    OK, I'll get my coat now. Mine's the one with the ice scraper with the chip breaker in the pocket...

    -Tom
    Don't feel like you have to slink away Tom. Some people go to the trouble of boiling water twice, with a cooling period between and after before using it to make ice. This supposedly removes all the air in order to produce a grain free, clear cube. This means the only grain would be in the beverage surrounding the cubes.

    Let us not get started on those who insist upon spherical or glacial ice.

    jtk
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill Houghton View Post
    And across the windshield/windows, or up and down?
    Across of course.

    This is just the roughing stage so the object is to break the ice off in big chunks.

    For the final stage you use the Lee Valley ice scraper with the brass blade, followed by a burnishing with the leather work gloves you're wearing.............Rod.

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    I pay people to keep my windshields clear. What is an "ice scraper"?
    Last edited by Keith Outten; 12-01-2016 at 4:06 PM.

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    They should have "scraped" the streets this morning in Montreal. Hilarious!

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    Can't someone make a power scraper? I heard it's easier, faster, and better.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rich Riddle View Post
    ...a power scraper?
    I call it sunshine.

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    Yea, enough of this neanderthal scraping thing. It's time Milwaukee came out with a 20 volt Fuel windshield ice remover tool.
    NOW you tell me...

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