Frost removal - removal ideas

Careful if you use a warm hangar and don’t cold soak the plane in the hangar before taking it back out if it’s snowing

Some old school methods like buffing the ice smooth too, reckon they are frowned upon these days

Warm TKS fluid mix or the like is probably the easiest answer
 
Okay, hear me out. You'll need a bucket or tank of RV antifreeze, a sous vide immersion heater, a small fountain submersible pump, and a hose. Get the fluid up to temperature—something hot enough to do the job but not so hot as to damage anything.
I drive a Chevy Volt PHEV. It has a 14 kWh (usable) battery. I put in a quick connection to the battery that I can hook an inverter to. The inverter can run the Reiff heaters on my engine and a battery charger without breaking a sweat. It might be able to handle the sous vide heater at the same time, but if you leave the house with the antifreeze already heated up, you might not need to heat it much.

How much antifreeze does it take to clean up a typical four-seater?

What about using the inverter to run some electric blankets?
 

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What about 50/50 mix of Vodka and water?
 
saddletramp said:
One of the Skyhawks I instruct in has to sit outside. Last week the frost was easy to remove by spraying water on the surfaces with a nearby hose. The temperatures were just under freezing so the water we sprayed on never froze. This week were going to be in the low 20's & barely above freezing during the day.

Short of wing covers any other easy way to remove the frost?
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Spraying water with a hose is bad idea, you could freeze up control surfaces, ice on the wings that you can not see, brakes frozen, even when the temp is around freezing you can freeze water, water freezing in the wings or fuselage, water csan get in places you can not imagine use a soft broom for brushing off the frost or some other safe method to melt the frost,
 
strangebird said:
Spraying water with a hose is bad idea, you could freeze up control surfaces, ice on the wings that you can not see, brakes frozen, even when the temp is around freezing you can freeze water, water freezing in the wings or fuselage, water csan get in places you can not imagine use a soft broom for brushing off the frost or some other safe method to melt the frost,
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Although this thread is from last winter, not a bad idea to bring it back up. Some good ideas; I wasn't aware of the RV antifreeze, etc.
 
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