Windshield Wper Blade Incerts

by **Tygart** » 17 Mar 2007 19:20

I was wondering which windshield wiper blades to buy for their inserts? For what make and year of car or truck?

Thanks
Tygart

by **Eyes_Only** » 17 Mar 2007 19:35

Theres no real way to find the right size wiper blade inserts by looking up vehicle make, model and year most likely. What you can do is buy three different brands of wiper blades and take them apart. Thats the only way to know for sure. But make sure to look and check to see that the wiper blades you are buying actually has the inserts, some blades dont have any steel inserts.

by **Tygart** » 17 Mar 2007 19:44

I don't understand. Why would the wiper blads that you buy form lets say a 97 Ford have differant metal incets the the ones I buy for a 97 Ford????? Or what ever.

Ok Lets try this question

Which brand of of windshield wiper blades for what model and year of car had people bought that work for tention wrinches??

by **Wrenchman** » 17 Mar 2007 20:08

People donÂ´t buy them, they pickÂ´em up from the trash can, or the street, and donÂ´t worry about where they came from!

Wrenchman

Ps. I personally like the ones from Airbus A380, or the Boeing 747-400F, I kid you not!

J/K

by **Tygart** » 17 Mar 2007 20:13

Wrenchman wrote:People donÂ´t buy them, they pickÂ´em up from the trash can, or the street, and donÂ´t worry about where they came from!

Wrenchman

Ps. I personally like the ones from Airbus A380, or the Boeing 747-400F, I kid you not!

J/K

by **Jaakko** » 18 Mar 2007 4:42

I've said this before and I said it again: There is no point to buy those wiper blades.

Why? Because the price of one pair is usually between 5-20 dollars/euros. Just go out on a rainy day to a busy looking gas station and head to the trash bin. Usually I have found a couple of wiper blades per bin

by **NIC** » 18 Mar 2007 16:23

WIPER INSERTS This comes up alot!! Maybe some MOD should a Sticky about the subject ??Just my opinion

by **Tygart** » 19 Mar 2007 0:22

Jaakko if you don't have an answer then don't reply, I am not asking if I should I am asking "READ MY POST"

NIC you are right on the money. We do need a thread for wiper blades were we can tell which ones to buy.

I just got some still in the package at Good Will 69 cents.. I have seen them at yard sales STILL IN THE PACKAGE.

Ok members people are willing to go out an buy wiper blades, I can't be the only person here that is willing to. But I don't wan't to unless I know which ones to buy.

by **Dooms_day** » 19 Mar 2007 16:01

it doesnt matter which brand year whatever you buy, they dont have years... just get any winsheild wiper pairs, then there is about 8+ feet of inserts no matter what kind you buy. theres two inserts in each windsheild so multiply the length of one by 4. besides, you end up finaly getting what you want, and you only make like one or two tention wrenches.... :roll:

by **rohi** » 19 Mar 2007 16:14

The only thing to watch out for, is that you can see the inserts on the outside of the wipers.
Some cheap wipers overhere in Europe have a single steel insert inside the rubber strip, this is way to thick for picks.
It's also regular steel, not stainless.

Just my 2 cents

Ronald

by **ghostman** » 19 Mar 2007 19:25

hmm. i htink im gonna stop by at the local garage to see if they have any. (we jsut had a snow storm)

by **Knows-Picker** » 21 Mar 2007 0:18

ok, here is the best advice that I can give. Yes you can pick them up on a rainy day in the trash at either a gas station or outside an auto parts store such as nappa or advanced. Yes you can also get them at a junk yard, or at an oil change place that does wipers. You can get them everywhere but that doesn't answer your ? does it? As far as buying them, because in a pinch when I didn't have time to go hunt them and I just wanted some wrenches or whatever.... You can go to wal-mart. Get their house brand wich is less than 3 bucks a blade and they do have inserts. The packaging is red and black, don't remember the name sorry. But I do know if you ask someone at walmart they will tell you thier brand, or just check the price they are the cheapest. I recommend getting (if you are going to buy them) a single blade in 16,22,and 24-28" long. The reason being that they use different thicknesses for each of those sizes, so the 16 makes great mirco tension wrenches, the 22 is standard, and the 24-28 makes good thick ones, or makes great stock material for making picks. All in all, you can get a complete set of picks and tension wrenches for about 10 dollars worth of wal mart brand wipers. So if your time is worth more to you than 10 bucks, (like mine is sometimes) then just go buy them and save yourself the time.

by **Tygart** » 21 Mar 2007 1:06

Knows-Picker YOU ROCK!!! Thank you very much.
I will look for the 22" for now. And pick up differant sizes, if I need them.

I might look for some 24-28 for Bogota Picks.

I did not know that Wall Mart had a house brand, ill need to look again..

Thanks again that is a lot of help.

Tygart

by **Knows-Picker** » 21 Mar 2007 1:32

No problem man, just make sure you get the ones in the red and black packages. Those are the ones that I get and I know they have them as I just changed my wiper blades again this weekend, and bought the 2 larger sizes just for the metal shims in them. it was worth the extra 6 buck for me anyways.

Also, if you are interested, you can always go to
http://www.smallparts.com and order the 1/2 * 24" .020 (slimline) or .025 for standard pick material. with shipping you pay 30 bucks roughly, but you can get 40 incredible picks that will last alot longer than the hacksaw blades. This link I think I got from Romstar, but I could be wrong. I have used them 2 times and both times they did great. Once your on the site put in "Spring Steel Shim Stock Strip" or part #FSS-20/08-24 that is the slimline but that will bring you to the page that has all of the options on it for the shim strips. I order the 24" and just cut them down to 6" blanks. Then with the 1/2" thickness you can make 2 picks out of each blank so 80 out of the 24". I did this with my first order, but the second order I left at one pick per blank to leave a longer handle.

Hope this helps, and just have fun picking. I know I probably don't have to say this, but remember to only pick locks that you own..

by **Tygart** » 21 Mar 2007 2:24

Thanks for the web site. I am not sure if I will buy from them right now.

remember to only pick locks that you own..

I have been here long enough to know that. And don't pick locks you depend on.

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