I;m going to surmise that the rubber bits may be Room Temperature Vulcanizing Rubber (RTV). This stuff is usually entropically stable at normal room temperatures. What is it you DO with your electrical banana that would cause such degradation of otherwise stable modern 'plastic',

How does the squirrel family minimize the rattlies on those remote roads? Plastic knives?

Pensioner.

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Rocket J Squirrel < camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:

> To those that feel discriminated against, those who feel sorry for > themselves I say: You only have yourselves to blame. Y'could-a gotten > Westies, y'could-a parked them in the desert sun or spontaneously > combusted to melt the rubbery bumpers ... and y'could-a been born in the > US of A where any citizen, regardless of background or religion or choice > of breakfast cereal, has the constitutionally-given freedom to own rubbery > bumpers in the first place. > > But ya didn't, did ya? > > (Voice of reasonable adult): Okay, this thread has gone on long enough and > it's gotten silly. I started it looking for advice, got the information I > needed, many thanks to all. But it's time to relinquish this thread to the > dust heap of gerry's long memory. > > Back to our regular diet of, as Jim Felder says, tires. > > ... tires. (grimaces) > > -- > Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott > 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") > 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) > Bend, OR > KG6RCR > > > > On 9/22/2009 2:20 PM Loren Busch wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Joy Hecht <jhecht@alum.mit.edu> wrote: >> >> What on earth does it say about this list that this topic has gotten more >>> discussion than anything else other than fights about language?! >>> >>> >> But Joy, this is a very discriminatory discussion. What about those on >> the >> list that don't have Westfalias? Right now they feel very feft out. What >> about those of us that don't have drippy, gooey things hiding under the >> drain board/cutting board/splash tray? And most of all, all your new >> neighbors in the Great White North that not only don't have drippy gooey >> things, they don't even have a place to put them! >> >>