Snow Blower Non Stick Spray

[HorseFixer 2,013]

I painted the inside of my blower real good with Valspar and added alot of hardner. My thinking was a good smooth surface would be less apt to let snow stck to it! Well that damn thing was like a SNOW MAGNET thats all it did was stick to everything outside and inside the chute! <_< What works the best to keep snow from sticking and preventing Clog Ups? What have you tried? And How Often does it need to be applied and how long does it last? Any Suggestions? :notworthy:

[Indy w h 5]

Duke,if my memory is correct, grampa used some kind of Teflon spray on the Shute

on the walk behind blower. It came in a spray can and he applied it a few times a season.

I can't remember the name of it, it was only 20 years ago and now g-pa's gone. But I know

it came from the paint store in town. Sorry I can't think of the name of it

but atleast it's a start for ya.

Indy :WRS:

[brybrychrismer 17]

a good coat of paste wax and buff might help. if nothing else pam cooking spray may help.

[Save Old Iron 1,568]

Kinda has that War of the Worlds feeling to it.

A highly advanced mechanical contraption brought to its knees by a simple force of nature that surrounds us all - low temperature H2O.

I would go with either exhaust gas recirculation into the 2nd stage of the blower mechanism or cross chute sequential port injection of PAM into the long chute.

But just like they said in GhostBuster's

"Never cross the Streams, that would be bad."

But seriously,

I have not found any current day spray on coating that eliminates this problem. There was a manufacturer back in the 70's - produced a silicone based spray with a totally blacked out black label on the can - skull and crossbones label and all - that worked great. Used to make my eyes water and made you cough when sprayed but worked great. I just haven't found a post EPA product that worked as well.

I would vote for many, many coats of automotive wax applied to the inner chute. Paint surface hardness is probably not as important as paint surface smoothness in this case. For some reason the blowers that I have walked behind that use plastic chutes seem to clog less than the metal ones.

Carry on Sir, this is still most interesting.

p.s We have started a PIE FOR PLOWING offer at our household this year.

I bet my wife I would not have to even start up any one of the three snowblowers I have if she would bake a pie for any neighbor that would plow my driveway.

Last snowstorm was "removed from my sight" by the next door neighbor for a loaf of Banana bread.

So let's see - I sit and read Red Square - my wife bakes - and the neighbor plows !! Just like a Norman Rockwell painting of Christmas.

Best snow blower automation project I ever came up with.

Maybe I'll save up enough money for a set of skis for Iron's upcoming vacation.

[rwilson 128]

i use parifin wax on my blade. all you have to do is get it good and warm with a propain torch and rub an old candle on it. works great. just be careful not to get it too hot so it burns the paint. i dont know how well you can do on a blower. it would be tuff. but maybe on the front auger and shute would be ok.

[Gerry w 2]

I always use a good coats(S) of car wax, but have heard, (Micah??) use Pam cooking spray.

Is your garage heated? Was the chute warm before blowing?? I noticed my blower's chute was ALMOST sticking with this last, WET, snow fall, and Pat had just re-painted it this summer. That was with three coats of wax!

I do like the war of the worlds idea though!

[jusjeepn 59]

Gerry, you had it painted again? :notworthy:

[Gerry w 2]

Gerry, you had it painted again?

see, I shouldn't do this on just one cup of coffee!! Fixed it! And Sorry!!

Had another thought, has anyone tried Ski wax???

[Sparky-(Admin) 22,076]

Had another thought, has anyone tried Ski wax???

I was just thinkn the same thing Gerry. Someone needs to walk up to a sno-boarder and say....

" Dude, thats a gnarly board and you just did a sweet rip on that slope. So Dude, tell us whats on the bottom of your board to make it so wicked fast? . Or somethin like that!

Mike..........

[HorseFixer 2,013]

I was just thinkn the same thing Gerry. Someone needs to walk up to a sno-boarder and say....

" Dude, thats a gnarly board and you just did a sweet rip on that slope. So Dude, tell us whats on the bottom of your board to make it so wicked fast? . Or somethin like that!

Mike..........

Gerry yes my Garage is heated, but keep it at about 40deg prolly 90% of the time. I only turn it up to 60 when I am out there for extended periods.

Mike if yer talking about one of those kids with colored hair, pants hangin down under their Azz and a stud in their eyebrow, lip, nose and tounge, I think I could come up with a couple better questions than that one being something like this..... Doode... yer really freaky lookin.... you need to pull up your britches and act like yer somebody.... On second thought you need to go see the WiZaRd of Ozz and ask him for a BRAIN

[porkchop 1]

I,ve just got to tell my piercing story!!!! I,m with my late buddy jeff god bless his soul. Jeff was a gentle giant of a man and a real comedian. Six foot three 350to400 pounds and wore only bib overalls. We where at Bob Evans eating breakfast on the way to a fishing trip. In came a couple of young men with 10 to 12 nose rings and assorted other jewelry. as we are leaving he stops at there table and says good morning young men and they are dwarfed by this man and reply good morning SIR. Then he ask them WHAT HAPPENED BOYS DID YOU FALL IN YOUR GRANPA,S TACKLE BOX? I had to sit back down because me and everyone else that heard it where laughing some people had spit their food out and where choking!!!! The young men where also laughing and it was 30 minutes before I could compose myself enough to leave the place and had sore ribs for 2 days from laughing. When people pass on there always something that reminds you of a moment you spent with them.

[wh500special 2,249]

I've used whatever I happen to have laying about with mixed results: WD40, silicone lube, bicycle chain lube w/ teflon, pam...but none seem to offer long lasting improvements (although the Silicone was probably the best).

What DOES work for me is to leave my Trailblazer 7 outside on the porch so it can get COLD. If your blower housing (or blade) is above freezing, the snow is much more apt to stick since it melts. I no longer even bother spraying anything inside since the blower housing is kind of rusty and banged up anyway.

I've also noted on my 2-stage blower that it really seems to like for the auger housing to be getting an appreciable amount of snow processed thru it. When you don't have much zipping thru there it is more apt to plug since it doesn't self scour. I guess there are dead spots in the flow pattern when you're only blowing a light snowfall.

Steve

PS - Sometimes Silicones can cause permanent paint adhesion problems if you ever try to repaint it.

[wallfish 17,494]

I've been using cheap furniture wax in a spray can. It works as good as the other sprays mentioned but was much cheaper. I picked up a few cans at a bargain store for $.59 each. It sticks pretty good and doesn't just run off or evaporate. You can build it up with a couple of coats. It's much easier than rubbing on wax and it gets into those hard to reach places.

[fireman 1,022]

Duke,

I use a silicone spray from SNAP (which is from Penzoil-Quaker State). I spray the entire insides, chute, auger etc. the night before. It comes out like a liquid but dries to a film. Used it this last storm and not a drop of snow or ice stuck to it. Use it on my shovels too. I think wally world sells it.

Jeff

[HorseFixer 2,013]

Thanks Guys! I have purchased some Dupont Teflon Silicone Lubricant Spray and is pretty well priced at Lowes. I also have a few cans of Pam I will try Guess I will try these first and see what happens.

Porkchop that is a Fantastic Story Sorry about yer Pal! :WRS:

[truckin88 104]

homedepot and lowes sell snow slick on the shelf by their blowers, same type of premise. might be helpful

[Cody 277]

I use stuff called snow shooter and it works real well http://www.acehardwaresuperstore.com/snow-...ay-p-62095.html

[W9JAB 156]

:notworthy:

It's been out side so the chain was locked

up and I need to make a few parts to hook

it up to my tractor.

I saw in the manual to use paraffin wax to

keep snow from clogging the discharge.

Talking with my guys a the BIG "G"

tech. dept. came up with this....

Had the drive sprock let go befor I could try it,

with the drive "free wheeling" in the heavy wet

snow it packing up everything.

Ending up pushing with it, like a plow.

:thumbs:

[wingrider 21]

Like save old iron said back in the 60s-70s-& early 80s you could buy a Snow Plow Wax that was basic pure silicone in fact it worked so good the EPA banned it.

Duke your first thing you need to do when your going to to blow snow is move the tractor out of the heated garage and let it cool off, warm steel & cold snow will just freeze together. As for painting the inside of the chute it would be better if it was bare steel so it would scour up like a moldboard plow, now to keep it from rusting later spray it with WD 40 or a similar product to stop the rust.

I have used a product for the last 25 years that is called Metal Coat, you can buy it from various chemical salesman but I get mine from a local Janitoral Supply Co. locally & its about 8.00 a gallon, but that should last you for several years.

I've been plowing roads for almost 40 years & if the plows sit in a warm shed you have to let them cool down or the snow will freeze right to the metal.

Hope this helps,

wingrider

[Curmudgeon 28]

Yup, all I can do is confirm what's been said. Silicone spray, a few times over the winter, on everything.

Snow sticks to metal above freezing.

Wet snow sticks even worse, and if what you got was what I got, it was wet.

The fuller and bigger the stream of snow exiting the chute, the better it'll blow, the less it'll stick.

[pbradley68 1]

I've never tried this on a snow blower but I bet Rain-X would work since it does a good job moving rain/snow and ice off my windshield.

[Ian928 46]

My concern about using some of these sprays is that it ruins your chance of ever getting a decent paint job because of all the silicone.