[Vwdiesel] Some Bon Ami Dope

[Val Christian]

When I was a kid, my Dad had me polish off the windshield wiper scratches
with Bon Ami.  Come to think of it, there were allot of things we did 
with Bon Ami.  

For the windshield scratches, you can try a slurry of a very fine silicon
carbide dust.  It's sold for polishing gems, cutting tools, etc.
Car "polish" typically has very fine abrasives in it, and has worked
for me in the past.  I haven't found anything which gets out stone
chips, except time.  Glass is plastic, and a stone chip that's 10 years
old is not as deep as a fresh one.  Short of a torch on the gas
(not recommended on windshields of course), I don't know how to 
speed the process.

Different topic...anyone have experience with the current generation of
China air cooled diesels?  They range from about 3hp to 10hp in size.
I have just bought two generators with the 10hp size...but I have to 
wait a month or so for them to get here.  Apparently they vibrate allot,
because periodic service includes "tightening up the head bolts".

One contractor I talked with has 23 of these generators at different
work sites, and they have an average of 4000 hours on them.  

Val



> 
> At 07:12 PM 18/09/04 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >I called Bon Ami and spoke with a lab tech about this. She said that
> >they got a couple of complaints of it scratching glass and wanted to
> >cover their butts. But, she personally has tested it on glass and
> >mirrors with out any scratching and uses it herself on glass (as do
> >the others in the lab). She was guessing that in the cases where
> >people thought it scratched, that it cleaned the windshield so well
> >that nicks and scratches were then more visible or that they used an
> >abrasive pad (like the ones to clean pots and pans). Those abrasive
> >pads can easily scratch your gl ass.
> 
> 
> Darn right. I was scrubbing a particularly stubborn patch of bug guts on the
> windshield last year, smart ass says, use the "scotch brite" scrubber, now
> have a permanent fuzzy spot on the windshield.  (wonder if it might polish
> out with Bon-Ami?)
> 
> I guess there's abrasive imbedded in the plastic.
> 
> I use this stuff to brighten the ends of solid copper coaxial line for
> transmitter sites (imagine coax made of 3" solid copper, like drain pipe,
> with an internal 1" pipe suspended by teflon discs, good for 50 kW of rf
> power) High conductivity at the joints is important.
> 
> 
> 
> Sandy
> >
> >And also:
> >
> >The product that is most often sold in grocery stores comes in a round
> >can and is called "Bon Ami Kitchen and Bath Cleanser." It has a very
> >low abrasive content. It is not, IMHO, what you should be using on
> >your windshields. There is another Bon Ami, made by the same company
> >(Faultless Starch /Bon Ami Company, right here in Kansas City, MO). It
> >is "The Original Bon Ami Cleaning Powder" and it comes in a
> >rectangular box. This is the stuff that goes on the windshield, if
> >you're so inclined.
> >
> >The Bon Ami Kitchen and Bath Cleanser, according to the label,
> >contains feldspar, calcites/calcium carbonate. The package lists the
> >types of surfaces it recommends the product be used on. Window glass
> >is not on the list.
> >
> >The Original Bon Ami Cleaning Powder contains only feldspar and soap.
> >This product's package specifically lists instructions for using it on
> >glass and mirrors. This quote is from their catalog, "NASA even used
> >Cleaning Powder to clean the windows on Skylab." (Okay, so we all know
> >what eventually happened to Skylab, but I don't think it had anything
> >to do with dirty windows.)
> >
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