[T3] Window scrapers

Robert Rogers rcrogers1 at peoplepc.com
Wed Apr 11 19:19:49 PDT 2012


I don't know which Super 8 you are referring to, but I am guessing it is along I-70.  I will be traveling I-70 on the 21st in a blue '67 Fastback.  Honk as you pass. 


-----Original Message-----
>From: Keith Park <topnotch at nycap.rr.com>
>Sent: Apr 11, 2012 6:17 PM
>To: type3 at vwtype3.org
>Subject: Re: [T3] Window scrapers
>
>Well today I discovered that the Super 8 in Kansas city is a much better
>choice than the Motel 6, which as the reviews tended to suggest, is a step
>above a Whorehouse for $40 a night.
>
>Keith
>
>
>Top Notch Restorations
>topnotch at nycap.rr.com 
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>71 Squareback "Hothe"
>65 Notchback "El Baja Rojo"
>65 Squareback "Eggcrate"
>87 golf "Winterat"
>93 RX7 "Redstur"
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org
>[mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of Dave Hall
>Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 8:38 AM
>To: type3 at vwtype3.org
>Subject: Re: [T3] Window scrapers
>
>I often seem to do my computing that end of the 'day', but I was searching
>though accommodation etc for the days either side of the Invasion.  
>
>Dave.
>UK VW Type 3&4 Club
>===================
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org
>[mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of Keith Park
>Sent: 11 April 2012 04:16
>To: type3 at vwtype3.org
>Subject: Re: [T3] Window scrapers
>
>Mighty cold in England right now...  
>And is Dave really up at 3AM to talk with us?  :-)  Ahh  the night owl.
>
>Keith
>
>
>Top Notch Restorations
>topnotch at nycap.rr.com
>http://www.a383ina68.addr.com/radiorest/main.htm
>71 Squareback "Hothe"
>65 Notchback "El Baja Rojo"
>65 Squareback "Eggcrate"
>87 golf "Winterat"
>93 RX7 "Redstur"
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org
>[mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of Dave Hall
>Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 9:34 PM
>To: type3 at vwtype3.org
>Subject: Re: [T3] Window scrapers
>
>Yes, I feel for you hot and high-humidity guys.  
>
>Dave.
>UK VW Type 3&4 Club
>===================
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org
>[mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of James
>Lingenfelter
>Sent: 11 April 2012 02:58
>To: type3 at vwtype3.org
>Subject: Re: [T3] Window scrapers
>
>Around here with 95F temperatures with 90% humidity, it's a driving error
>NOT to have it out the window! In fact, it usually makes you want to get ANY
>body part you can out the window!
>
>On Apr 10, 2012, at 8:45 AM, Dave Hall wrote:
>
>> I'd say it was a driving error to lean your arm on the window sill, 
>> not a
>> design flaw.   We have a funny view of driving with your elbow out  
>> of the
>> window in the UK - probably to save it getting frostbite or being 
>> washed away!
>>
>> The rubber breaking is most likely due to its age and perished state - 
>> it wasn't like that originally.
>>
>> Dave.
>> UK VW Type 3&4 Club
>> ===================
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org
>> [mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of Jim 
>> Adney
>> Sent: 10 April 2012 05:29
>> To: type3 at vwtype3.org
>> Subject: Re: [T3] Window scrapers
>>
>> On 9 Apr 2012 at 16:58, Gary Forsmo wrote:
>>
>>> Did I read, or did someone tell me, or having I been having VW Type 3 
>>> "dreams" again ...
>>>
>>> When you lower the window glass and drive with you upper and forearm 
>>> resting on the window sill, you should leave about 1/8" to 1/4" of 
>>> the glass sticking up above the rubber scraper?
>>
>> I probably told you that. It's not the skin oils or sweat, it's that 
>> the weight of your arm will bend and crack the rubber when it's old.
>> Modern cars use a different design that simply lays down flat if you 
>> do this, but our scrapers will break rather than lay down flat. It's 
>> actually a design flaw.
>>
>> --
>> *******************************
>> Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org
>> Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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