Over at the Neanderthal Haven site, there is currently a thread going on about sharpening...

 

Your

 

Ice

Scrapers

 

Yep. 

 

Posts include the usual about back bevels, flattenning the backs,  Bevel up or bevel down.   One poster even uses a block plane to refresh the bevel.   Others worrying about how sandpaper on a flat board would leave  grit inbedded  in the scraper's surface, and scratch the glass..

 

Yep, normal sharpening thread over there...

Different strokes I guess. Funny, never in a million years would I have thought about sharpening an ice scraper.

Oh, I've thought about it! Got a dozen or so that don't scrape worth a *****, so now that I know other people do it

John.......

17 minutes ago, Fred W. Hargis, Jr said:

Different strokes I guess. Funny, never in a million years would I have thought about sharpening an ice scraper.

sure .. why not...

treat it as any WW scraper...

What's an ice scraper?

I guess when  a new one costs $2.00?????

and the store for a good one is 5 hours away????

10 minutes ago, Stick486 said:

and the store for a good one is 5 hours away????

 

 

Then I would have several spares on hand........or move closer to town.

I guess it is more for those so good at penny pinching, they can make Lincoln scream?

2 hours ago, Fred W. Hargis, Jr said:

 

 

Then I would have several spares on hand........or move closer to town.

spares I got...

If you have spares on hand, now is the time to sharpen'em, before you need 'em. Seems like a belt sander would do fine. Not exactly a rocket science.

copy that...

I did mine last week.  Self stick 220 grit on a flat piece of wood.  Ice scrapers are more like $5.00 and up. 

4 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

What's an ice scraper?

 

You don't have one.  These make good snow cone ice.  Dad had one and we called them snow balls. 

 

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5 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

What's an ice scraper?

Rub it in, you don't need one where you are located, doesn't it snow in Snowflake?

Herb

3 hours ago, Dadio said:

Rub it in, you don't need one where you are located, doesn't it snow in Snowflake?

Herb

We might get an inch once or twice per winter. But, the vehicles are garaged. And, I'm retired. 

Windshield deicing fluid in the reservoirs work well, too. Turn the defroster on, go back in the house and have another cuppa. By then, the car is warm, a couple squirts of fluid and your good to go. 

We don't get as much snow as we did 40 years ago, only 2 or 3 feet a year, but snow isn't what these scrapers are used on. For snow we have brushes or brooms. Scrapers are for the layer of frost or ice that forms almost every night, and can take 15 minutes to remove from the vehicle windows. You Californians have it made!

John

Edited November 26, 20169 yr by HARO50

try block, cab and fuel heaters....

always ready to go...

Edited November 26, 20169 yr by Stick486

Leave windshield and rear window deicer in the on position when you leave the car. Start  the engine using the remote starter  and wait 15 minutes before you're ready to leave.

When we were working, (pre garage) we'd use a spray bottle in the evening to coat the windshield with the deicing fluid. On the coldest nights, ice would form, but wouldn't adhere. Easy to remove without scraping. Defrosters did most of the work. Then a few sprits from the washer reservoir was all it took.