1. glass and windshield cleaner. Down in Texas, bug capital of the universe, a title hotly contested by Kansas, we found that Allsup’s gas-and-go stocks Sprayway Glass cleaner, which we’d been looking for since it does such a bang-up job of windows and tabletops. On the can, it said, also ‘windshields.’ Well, heck-darn, y’all. I bought it, took it out, where Jane was valiantly scrubbing baked-on bugs. Sprayed the windshield, gave it a desultory pass with the squeegee, ran the windshield washer to get the last of the foam off—crystal clear, instantly, no elbow grease required. This stuff also works on windows near sticky-sapped trees that drop gluey crud on the windows; and it works on glass tabletops where greasy fingerprints are a problem. It’s called Sprayway Glass Cleaner, and you can buy a case of it on Amazon. Believe me, one can for the car, one for the kitchen, one for the garage. Give a can to relatives and friends. They’ll thank you for it.
2. blu-ray player cleaner. THese machines, along with X-Boxes, I hear (we don’t have one) and highspeed computer dvds, are easy to crud up with a tiny bit of dust. And they start skipping. Using a cleaner with a brush on it is too rough. Maxell Blu-ray disc cleaner, also on Amazon, or at your friendly local store, has come a clever one: they drilled two holes in a disk, and as it spins, it creates a windstorm in the player that blasts the dust off the lens, while never touching the lens at all. Works like a charm.
Someone posted this link over on Galaxy Zoo, which I thought would be appreciated here:
http://twitpic.com/9zk2ua
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Stargazing Cat, gotta love it.
Bug Capital — Ah, I’m so proud! LOL!
I haven’t seen that cleaner, I’ll hunt it up.
Bug vengeance: the critter aims right for the center of the driver’s vision. Splut!
I have seen it so bad in Kansas, your car could skid on the number of bugs on the highway.
I like using microfiber cloths for the glass tabletops, mirrors and household windows — way sensitive to a lot of cleaning chemicals. Get the cloth partly damp and works like a charm with no streaks or lint.
Got a juniper at work that’s throwing pitch all over my car like crazy -streaks of it down the sides! Husband used rain-x glass cleaner on the windshield, goo came off without a fuss. I found years back that the rain-x treatment helps get the bug splots off easy too.
Also for your HD TV with a Blu-Ray player attached:
The Spears & Munsil High Definition Benchmark
http://www.spearsandmunsil.com/hdbenchmark.html
The disc walks you through a series of adjustments to calibrate your HD TV for the room it is in.
I love my Sony HD set but the image settings it came with were dark. My test disc was Crows Zero (dir. Takashi Miike), the opening scene was almost un-viewable, darkness with glints of light. After calibration the scene played well.
Just found Sprayway Glass Cleaner by the can at Target Stores here in Maryland; didn’t check the rest of the country. I grew up in Texas, and in spring & fall when the love bugs were out they could really mess up a windshield.
We’re carrying it on trips from now on. A clean windshield is a safety thing!