<all> a good fix for peeling/rusting wiper arms...

["Aaron Bohnen" <bohnen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

OK, so I am a little bored tonight. Anyway, I have a good suggestion for 
any of you plagued with paint peeling off of your wiper arms. Shrink-wrap 
the whole arm from the shoulder at the base where the thin steel bar arm 
joins the holder right all the way to the end.

You can clean off the rust and oxy-solv the area first if you like, even 
paint it if you want. (painting kind of defeats the main idea behind this 
fix however) Next get yourself enough of the thick black shrinkwrap tubing 
in an appropriate size to go all of the way up and around the arm bend. You 
want to shrink wrap the whole works - be careful threading the shrinkwrap 
on there since the bend at the end is tight and you don't want any breaks 
in the tubing.

Once the tubing is on there get out your heatgun (with heatshring tubing 
shroud installed!!! Do NOT melt anything on the front of your car!) and do 
to it. 

The result - a nice flat black rubber-looking finish that won't peel or 
flake off.

Total time if you have all the stuff ready - maybe 10 minutes. Well worth 
doing.

Aaron
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Aaron Bohnen                     email: bohnen@domain.elided
- -Ph.D. Candidate, Civil Engineering Department, U.B.C.
- -Technicraft Engineering Services

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