Originally Posted By: hate2work
Originally Posted By: Char Baby
I think that everyone need to find the wiper blade that works best for their application just like finding the oil/filter combo that works best in your engine. I've been sold on the Bosch Micro Edge Excel. Although I don't see the "Excel" anymore, just the Micro Edge. I keep them clean with amonia and every now and again I lightly sand them with one of those fine nail polish emery pads that has 4 sides to them. These things are what my wife uses to buff her nails with. You can get them at the Dollar Store. Buff with any of the 3 finer sides not the most course side. Then clean with amonia. This buffing helps to reduce the streaking that come with age of wiper blades and the amonia helps keep the rubber on the blade more pliable than alachol does. And, alachol is a drying agent causing the blades to chatter in the cold and not connect to the windshield(right in front of your eyes) as where tha amonia helps to reduce this chatter. This helps me keep my wiper blades beyond 3, maybe 4 years before replacing them. This is no [censored]! Thisreally works for me. I was going to throw away my wiper blades one day and buy new ones when, my 80+ year old father-in-law recomended this to me and it worked brilliantly. He said that "your only going to throw them away, why not give this a try". Again, he was right! A little Rain-X or sililar product just adds to the splender of great viewing out of the windshield.
So you're saying that by buffing the blades it puts a sharp edge back on the blade? Interesting for sure, I might try that.
Yaers ago I saw an ad on TV for a simple little hand held device that you ran down your wiper blade and it removed about 1/8th of an inch of the leading edge, giving you a new sharp edge. It had a little razor blade attached that did the cutting, and it looked like it worked well. Seemed like a good idea to me, but I never bought one to try.
Well, here's my way of thinking. Over time, the wiper blades become grooved each time that their used. Constantly running the blades over the grit or even ice from the winter causes them to deteriorate. My father-in-law explains it this way...Watch a barber clean his shaving blade on a leather strap. You never see the barber sharpen the blade any other way. This leather strap knocks down all of the burs on the edge of the blade and sharpens it at the same time. This is what the "fine sanding"(if you will)does to the wiper blades. I like to fine sand(with the buffing pad) the sides of the wiper blades and then the actual part of the blade that touches the windshield. I do this with soap and water so that the "buffing pad" that Im using slides smoothly along the wiper blade. Or at least do it wet, kinda like wet sanding. You don't have to work hard, just nice smooth. Im not joking, it really works for me. Then when your done sanding the blades, clean the blades with the amonia on a papertowel and let them air dry alowing the amonia to set/soak into the blades. The amonia idea isn't from my FIL but,is actually from an older gentleman that I knew in the early 1970's when I worked at my dad's service station. That's another story.
