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Fog really is a pain ........ especially if you wear specs .......... that`s four surfaces ( inner and outer ) you have to keep clear ....... and main beam or dipped makes bugger all difference ........ in fact main is worse , as you just get the glare reflected directly back at you .

Got hold of some Bob Heath Anti Fog Spray , which seemed to work quite well on a forty mile round trip into Bristol and back yesterday ..... ( dry , and what I regard as being cold ( 3-6 C ) ......... and roads covered with slimey shit which never seems to go away at this time of year ... ) ......

Over the years there seem to have been several attempts at finding a solution .......... I have got a pinlock anti fog shield which I have yet to try .... then there was the similar Fog Shield a few years back ......... washing up liquid , or rubbing the inside of the visor with a peeled potato were also supposed to provide some sort of answer , although my closest contact with anything potato like is usually in chip form , so never got around to trying that .........
 
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Vince said:
I am glasses-free for distance vision after Cataract Surguy, the pin locks are fantastic for helmet fogging and the best stuff I found for glasses fogging was this lanoline-based stuff, the less you use the better. You polish it off so you can see through it. https://www.mxstore.com.au/p/Cat-Cr...j_aaferEUd1jStrWpJ4O8RDs2eVJ9iRcaAjcREALw_wcB
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Actually , there is plenty of cat crap to be found outside my lock up most mornings ......... not sure I`d want to wipe it all over my visor , though ...... :) ...........
 
i drove my old non-heated HR Holden up to the snowfields with my brother about 40 years ago - it had ice on the inside of the windscreen most of the way there, scraping a sight hole into it! During our ski day we found a tiny tube of anti-fog ski-goggle stuff. When the windscreen started to fog up immediately on the return night drive we thought nothing to lose, so applied a few drops of this stuff to the windscreen with a tissue - it was crystal clear for the entire 3 hour trip home. Absolutely amazing stuff. I think it was called Fog-Free or something simple like that, made in Europe and active ingredients seemed to be detergent and alcohol.
After a horror 200km ride home through temperate rainforest country at night last winter with my visor totally fogging up I had to ride with it up and my glasses off .... nightmare stuff.
 
One set of my old glasses were horrible, first breath out instant blindness. That's what got me trying a bunch of antifog products. The Cat Crap worked best. My next pair of glasses didn't fog anywhere as badly, I think it is a combination of their particular shape and distance from your face. Pinlocks if fitted right, the actual pins are not round. Turning them allows changes in alignment so the inner visor sits hard against the outer visor and seals all the way around. After 4 days of misery, constantly fogging helmet visor I stumped up the $100 or so and was ecstatic at how good the result was.
 
piranha-bro2 said:
i drove my old non-heated HR Holden up to the snowfields with my brother about 40 years ago - it had ice on the inside of the windscreen most of the way there, scraping a sight hole into it! During our ski day we found a tiny tube of anti-fog ski-goggle stuff. When the windscreen started to fog up immediately on the return night drive we thought nothing to lose, so applied a few drops of this stuff to the windscreen with a tissue - it was crystal clear for the entire 3 hour trip home. Absolutely amazing stuff. I think it was called Fog-Free or something simple like that, made in Europe and active ingredients seemed to be detergent and alcohol.
After a horror 200km ride home through temperate rainforest country at night last winter with my visor totally fogging up I had to ride with it up and my glasses off .... nightmare stuff.
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My mate picked his girlfriend up from her parents house to take her to the drive-in movies.

Her father suggested it was going to be hard to see through a fogged up windscreen and gave them a cut in half potato. "If you rub this on the windscreen, it'll clear up the screen"

At the drive in, the windows started to fog, out with the potato, smeared it over the windscreen ....... and couldn't see a thing through it all night.

Apparently the daughter came home afterward to the sound of her mother in bed;

How was the movie dear?

We couldn't see a thing all night.

Her fathers uncontrollable laughing from the bedroom proved the practical joke he'd laid on them.
 
chrisk said:
My mate picked his girlfriend up from her parents house to take her to the drive-in movies.

Her father suggested it was going to be hard to see through a fogged up windscreen and gave them a cut in half potato. "If you rub this on the windscreen, it'll clear up the screen"

At the drive in, the windows started to fog, out with the potato, smeared it over the windscreen ....... and couldn't see a thing through it all night.

Apparently the daughter came home afterward to the sound of her mother in bed;

How was the movie dear?

We couldn't see a thing all night.

Her father’s uncontrollable laughing from the bedroom proved the practical joke he'd laid on them.
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Not meant to use mashed potato…
 
RGS1000RGS said:
There was plenty of that either side of the A303 either side of the ridge from Chicklade, to the west. Rather beautiful!
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I am working on the M4 for the next 12 weeks on nights which i bloody hate, no work at all last night cos of the fog sat in the office until 2am cos no one had the balls to cancel the shift. Everyone looking at us as Principal contractor to do it, hoping they will get paid
 
rocketonarail said:
Fog really is a pain ........ especially if you wear specs .......... that`s four surfaces ( inner and outer ) you have to keep clear ....... and main beam or dipped makes bugger all difference ........ in fact main is worse , as you just get the glare reflected directly back at you .

Got hold of some Bob Heath Anti Fog Spray , which seemed to work quite well on a forty mile round trip into Bristol and back yesterday ..... ( dry , and what I regard as being cold ( 3-6 C ) ......... and roads covered with slimey shit which never seems to go away at this time of year ... ) ......

Over the years there seem to have been several attempts at finding a solution .......... I have got a pinlock anti fog shield which I have yet to try .... then there was the similar Fog Shield a few years back ......... washing up liquid , or rubbing the inside of the visor with a peeled potato were also supposed to provide some sort of answer , although my closest contact with anything potato like is usually in chip form , so never got around to trying that .........
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It's a nightmare, as is road spray on motorways. More than one trip on the M6 on my way too or from Liverpool (for the ferry to and from the IOM TT) has resulted in visor up and glasses off ( I know...) and even at that time of year, the crud off the road surface can be awful. Potatoes have a high starch content, and starch is definetly not see-through...
 
terry sage said:
I am working on the M4 for the next 12 weeks on nights which i bloody hate, no work at all last night cos of the fog sat in the office until 2am cos no one had the balls to cancel the shift. Everyone looking at us as Principal contractor to do it, hoping they will get paid
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I work in aviation, and we've had plenty of days of waiting for weather to clear over the winter.
 
This greeted us to Walcha for the Brass monkey run in 2023.
Most vivid rainbow I have ever seen!
Was a tad chilly up there.
 

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Definitely still winter here. Weekend is supposed to be better, which is good, because I have a couple of local ferry flights to make. Neither aircraft has any de-icing...Flight training isn't doing much right now, so working on the 3CL.
 

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Coldest I’ve seen on Exmoor was -14, coldest I’ve experienced was -24 in Lillehammer, we were walking back to hotel and there was a tramp sleeping on the bench. So cold the hairs in your nose froze as you breathed in, but Exmoor feels colder because it’s wet cold.
 
Coldest temp. recorded in England was here in good old Shropshire. -26.1 January 10 1982 recorded at RAF Shawbury weather station nr Newport. Memorable for my brother who was still living at home 11 miles away in Market Drayton. He had got bladdered that night and unable to make it back to our house somehow ended up asleep in the outside porch of his mates mums house. She luckily was an early riser and found him about 6am and dragged him into the house. Other than a hangover he was none the worse for wear. Lucky boy !
 
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