Inside window cleaner

Windex x 2, BUT!!!! do not use it if your windows are tinted (film tint) it will wreck it.

It is now a fallacy that newspaper is good for cleaning glass, they no longer use spirit based inks.

Its not the newspaper ink that does the cleaning its the vinegar, the newspaper is used as its better than cloth as it has no fluff. I use this method all the time and it works great, so no fallacy here.

In the old days newspaper ink was petroleum based & did clean glass well, it is now soy bean oil based & you may as well use chux, but then old newspaper is free.

Ok I will say this again as you dont seem to want to accept this.
If you use newspaper with white vinegar it cleans the windows really really well. No smears, no streaks, no fluff and very low cost. I cant see why you are trying to find a way to dispute this. Who give a monkeys what type of ink......jeesh.

G'day

I use Meguiar's glass cleaner which has no ammonia with a micro fibre cleaning cloth.

Easy to use and I can use it on tint.

I also use the newspaper method and it works fine as well, but I find the micro cloth is a bit quicker!

In the old days it was the ink that did the cleaning, that is why newspaper is used today, but it is just a hangover from the past.
It wasn't a personal attack on your prowess as a window cleaner, if you have taken it that way, please accept my apology.

Obviously Shaker hasn't cleaned many windows recently.

Mate it isnt a "hangover from the past": vinegar and newspaper is a great combination.
If you are saying they used dry newspaper to clean windows, well that is a totally different thing.

"prowess as a window cleaner" Mate I dont have some sort of up my jacksie idea about how good a window cleaner I am. The OP asked for a method, I gave him a very good method and then you came along and said it was a fallacy: how else could anyone take this other than that you were trying to dismiss it.

Stan 2.8D

Take no notice of the above Philistines as what works for you is good for you.

Also, in all my BD's (Born Days) of which there are many unfortunately, this post is the first time I have ever heard of the Petroleum based ink theory.

I was born in the bush in West Aust just after WWII when things/stuff were in very short supply. Newspaper and methylated spirits were in abundance though and were the order of the day for cleaning all things with glass windows.

Just add a liberal amount of metho to some warm/hot water, wash subject glass with this mix and then dry/polish it off with scrunched up newspaper, until all the scunge was removed and the glass shone clean.

The Newspaper had the effect of drying the glass as the paper fibres 'cut' the crud off the glass.

The chemical cleaning agent in this instance was methylated spirits, applied with a cloth, now days with a wetex sponge.

If this so called Petroleum based ink scenario was the order of the day, how come the good old boys & girls of yesteryear always did the metho in hot water trick first.

No doubt someone is going to say the metho released the petroleum base from the printers ink. Yeah! well, then you would have black printers ink everywhere.

Stan 2.8D - you get my vote on this one.

DD

I know whats good for newspaper and vinegar, HOT CHIPS. How bout you old blokes have a brandy and a lie down for a while.

Penchy

Do you recommend that I take my 'pills' with my vinegar and HOT CHIPS. (ROFLMAO)

DD

Hi Devil,
Maybe not the blue ones with the "V" scribed in them. No lying down then.

Penchy,
If he did lie down he wouldn't roll out of bed.

Hi Stephen,
Same here, I've never used anything else.
Had Cabs for years with my parents, each driver change used a chamois to give it a once over. No worries.

Onya Brushmarx, you have made my day......... I wish more forumites would lighten up a little.

Cheers Dalb

Second, third and fourth that sentiment.

DD

Simply beautiful, what a great sense of humour and thank you for the giggle.
Paul

Brushmarx you are my type of peoples. I just tried you cleaning method in my ute. But then I remembered no one else drives it but me. So now I got to try the other methods mentioned above. Keep smiling Brian.