[Spits] Foggy windows

[Bill Gingerich]

The bug drivers I knew always carried an ice scraper for the INSIDE of the
windows...


BillG



-----Original Message-----
From: spitfires-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:spitfires-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Jim Muller
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 1:41 PM
To: spitfires-list
Subject: Re: [Spits] Foggy windows

On 10 Aug 2009 at 13:58, Grant Buss wrote:

> Something in Richard's answer made me think 'it's an
> operator problem", I had the heat turned off.

Ah, how times change.  Nowadays a car's defroster automatically turns 
on the ubiquitous AC to dry the air.  In the old days you had to turn 
on the heater to blow heated air across the windshield.  (Cold air, 
hot air, how does it know what to do?)  The old VWs would blow hot 
air up from the engine cooling shrouds in the back.  During the first 
few minutes it would dry the inside of the ducts, and all that water 
would immediately condense on the windshield.

You have a round-tail Spitfire?  Does not your heater control say 
"Heat/Defrost" on one end of the heater control?

-- 
Jim Muller
jimmuller at rcn.com
'80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+