Pete Lewis Posted June 19, 2017 Report Share Posted June 19, 2017 ive been fighting the smeary deposits on the windscreen on my Picasso for a while even the pole's wash n wax locally does not last without all the wipe marks appearing next day so windolene ,autoglym ,halfords, turtle wax, thinners and water , brake cleaner, newspaper,neat screen wash, all have been rubbish but white vinegar wins hands down ...its worked a treat so what do you use ???????????????????????????????????? Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Posted June 19, 2017 Report Share Posted June 19, 2017 I use a computer Screen Clean , pump spray , last lot was from Aldi price about £2.50 Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougbgt6 Posted June 19, 2017 Report Share Posted June 19, 2017 Yup, white vinigar is the stuff. People still say news paper to clean it off but that doesn't work anymore. In olden times news print ink was noxious stuff and did clean glass, modern print ink, no good at all. My house windows need cleaning, (I only did them last year!) Went down to Waitrose, do they have plain white vinegar? Off course not! 3 dozen artisan offerings, walnut and pomegranate, red wine infused with gogi berries, white wine and lemon grass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted June 19, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2017 bit like getting brown tea , builders cuppa stuff, all sorts of colours flavours and insipid stuff but tea seems to be now an environmentally useless hooch for yuppies or greenies happened to get the white vinegar from Sainsbugs we dont have a posh supermarket like waitrose up ere. but a new Aldi is only 300yds away ( i didnt look there) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted June 19, 2017 Report Share Posted June 19, 2017 Yes but don't they smell good?? Vinegar works well but I've found some of the cheaper window cleaners are good, Tescos especially. As they're so cheap you can use plenty of it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougbgt6 Posted June 19, 2017 Report Share Posted June 19, 2017 I bought a giant sack of Yorkshire hard water tea bags from Makro. Big mistake. A year later I'm still ploughing through them. At first great, but now tasteless, I'm having to putting 2 or 3 in a cup to get any taste. Note to self, always buy tea in small quantities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekS Posted June 19, 2017 Report Share Posted June 19, 2017 Wilkinsons do a series of various cloths, "No More Chemicals", they're impregnated with silver if I remember rightly. You just need to dampen them to be effective and definitely work very well, just keep rinsing them out. The glass one is brilliant, cost is about £1:50, I carry one with us all the time, hate windscreens that aren't clean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted June 19, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2017 Derek thats one to look out for must give that a try Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekS Posted June 19, 2017 Report Share Posted June 19, 2017 I've just checked their website Pete and I was wrong, sorry, they're actually £2. Well worth it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted June 19, 2017 Report Share Posted June 19, 2017 Did use Autoglym's glass cleaner, unitl the tiny bottle ran out and I saw the price! Now, Windowlene - it's fine! Never tried using teabags, Doug. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted June 19, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2017 Derek, not inflation proofed then Ha ! I'll get one with the wifes pension now cold tea there's a thought. i could put some vinegar in the screenwash but will always be dreaming of a chip shop with every squirt Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted June 19, 2017 Report Share Posted June 19, 2017 Yes, white wine vinegar. Good for glass,descaling sinks etc,not sure about the coffee machine though (smell/taste lingering). It is very cheap and readily available here as lots of people use it for jobs like this. However malt vinegar is very hard to find,my last bottle was bought in Spain in a shop run by Brits for expats. I felt so guilty going in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougbgt6 Posted June 19, 2017 Report Share Posted June 19, 2017 But if you don't have malt how do you pickle your onions?!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted June 19, 2017 Report Share Posted June 19, 2017 But if you don't have malt how do you pickle your onions?!! I don't I get my pickles from the chef at my village bistro, picked herrings, onions,mixed pickle etc He's Danish, wife is Belgian. Running a bistro in what was the prespetry,leased from the village council in a small village in Normandy, oh! I'm on my second term as a councillor. Standard everyday stuff really Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 Derek, not inflation proofed then Ha ! I'll get one with the wifes pension now cold tea there's a thought. i could put some vinegar in the screenwash but will always be dreaming of a chip shop with every squirt Pete Some (winter?) screen wash contains alcohol. Whenever I use some of that, I think, Ah! G&T! JOhn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted June 20, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 we had neat alcohol on the line side for adding into the air brake antifreeze resevior.. half the opertators were tipsy same applied to neat screen wash the fun stopped when banned from the line side and decanted in a locker room, early days of sprayed impact adhesive had a cab line of loonies till H & S became god and spoilt their fun Hic. and a new metalurgical lab had a re fit with loads of plastic wast pipe think it as carbon tetrachloride used to clean samples which down the drain melted the lot happy days bit like the fire on the lab bench which when blasted with an extinguisher blew the lot over and set fire to the whole lab ....happy days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougbgt6 Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 We had a faulty batch of mercury switches. Hundreds of them, glass tubes with mercury in. The apprentices played hit the sink from 20 feet. All that poison straight into the drain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 Mercury filled 'sphygnomanometers' (blood pressure measuring) in every doctors room? The Horror! I once had a small, sealed vial of mercury at home. Can't recall where it came from (probably a sphyg!) but to remove itf from little children, I rand tge local council's refuse disposal dept. They sent round two men, in forensic suits and gloves, within 30 minutes! Didn't ask me where I got it! John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougbgt6 Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 John, yes! I don't know why doctors persist with mercury? My blood pressure machine is electric and works just as well. It's like Triumph owners and Triumphs, better cars are available and yet we persist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 It's like Triumph owners and Triumphs, better cars are available and yet we persist. No, not better just different. ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gully Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 I have a vintage barometer full of mercury hanging on the wall... Gully Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted June 20, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 I had a special barometer in the emissions workshop, held about 1/2 pint of mercury in a leather pouch to re calibrate it you screwed a pad into the bag to raise the manometer pile bet it all went in the bin when we closed the factory. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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