Windshield wiperblade arms?

[chromo]

Anyone done windshield wiper blade arms? Anything special I should look for like plastic bushings etc..? Problems?

Got my first paying customer today
He asked about having them done a few weeks ago, I just got around to looking at them today. Other than shaped a little different they are about like any others. One end presses over a splined shaft, 2 piece arm with pivot pin near center, spring inside underneath.
These look to be a plain metal painted black at the factory. The paint is wore down on one arm and it has a little surface rust, just enough to see it's plain steel.

How would you folks handle these arms? Coat just the outsides or inside under neath also. Take them apart to each seperate piece or coat whole as one unit if possible?
I plan to break them down and coat everything.

Tomorrow I will look at the extra cars here at the house and find a set of arms similar to his and practice on them. Wife voluntered to let me do hers on the Jeep, wasn't that nice of her

I figure no matter how I do these they are small and simple so should not take much time really. I quoted $30 for both, does that sound decent and fair? He paid half upfront already so I know he is ok with that price, but I don't want to over charge a hobby job too much.

[jtagger19]

i've done them lots of times
nothing special
you don't have to take them apart
take all plastic and rubber out
blast them and coat them as normal

[chromo]

Thanks.
I was a bit concerned with the paint inside the underside behind the springs etc...

I took a good look at the arms from a junk Mercury here today, no way to take it apart at the pivot anyway it looks like. It had plastic on the tip around the pin that holds the wiper. I was working on an oven today so tossed it in as is. Baked at about 450F for a good while and paint and plastic is still fine on that one. I'll test it more tomorrow. The plastic tip does not remove.

Today was a lazy day, I got a junk electric stove finally so I was wiring up 220 for it and changing breakers around, cleaning stove, swapping elements, adding more insulation. The top one worked but the bottom was blowed out in the oven. I moved top element to bottom and not using a top one now, oven heats fast enough and holds a good tempature now. I wanted something to check for a part temputure so I tossed in the wiper arm from the Mercury as was straight from the car. Same as it was when I tossed it in. I expected the plastic to melt and paint to bubble or blister or flake, still fine though.
I think tomorrow I will blast and coat the arm and bake it to test the oven again.

[FiReBReTHa]

Thhahaaaaats what I wanted to do...


Thanks for th reminder on weekend job.