Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:58:26 -0400
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From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject: Re: Goopy stuff on dish drainer
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If the thing were lowered after the burners were turned off, but before
they'd cooled, it certainly could melt the things that way.
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 4:21 PM , Jim Felder wrote:
> Nobody who knew about polymers would have a westy.
>
> The obvious presence of heat--witness the melted plastic, ladies and
> gentlemen--and the obvious lack of a flame--notice the clean,
> unscorched underside in the photo--tells me that the heat came from
> other than the burners. Like desert sun, or in a storage building, or
> spontaneous human combustion, or some such.
>
> Jim
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Rocket J Squirrel
> wrote:
>> No doubt. The stainless doesn't show any signs of heat. I dunno how
>> hot
>> you'd need to heat the drainer to get it to change color or leave
>> some other
>> visible mark, but I bet it's hotter hotter than the thermoplastic
>> point of
>> the polymer.
>>
>> He said, as if he knew anything about polymers.
>>
>> What is needed here, of course, is someone who knows polymers and has
>> a
>> Westy.
>>
>> --
>> 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 1:25 PM Jim Felder wrote:
>>
>>> Those suckers have seen some heat. Maybe not at the paws of the
>>> Squirrel family, but somewhere down that long road.
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Rocket J Squirrel
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Okay then. Melissa has shown you hers. I have shown you mine
>>>> (melted,
>>>> alas*), at
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://picasaweb.google.com/j.michael.elliott/DripTray?authkey=Gv1sRgCMCB6orW6O-Uaw#5383981513851249842
>>>>
>>>> and Tom Buese has p-mailed a photo of his to me and would probably
>>>> be
>>>> proud to show his to anyone who asked.
>>>>
>>>> ===============
>>>> * I didn't melt them. They were melted the day we got the Westy.
>>>> With
>>>> hand
>>>> atop stack o' holy books or cuneiform tablets of your choice, I
>>>> avow that
>>>> neither Mrs Squirrel nor I are so simple as to drop the drainer
>>>> while
>>>> running the burners,** nor to lay the drainer on hot burners, nor
>>>> close
>>>> the countertop on hot burners. Not having been born yesterday and
>>>> all
>>>> that. Far from it, in fact. We didn't even discover that the
>>>> drainer
>>>> existed until we'd owned the Westy for a few months.
>>>>
>>>> ** In the Canadian fashion.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> 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 12:57 PM Melissa Mourkas wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> For those who want to see what the heck everyone is talking about,
>>>>> I'll
>>>>> show you mine...here:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://gallery.me.com/mmourkas#100172
>>>>>
>>>>> :-)
>>>>> Melissa Mourkas
>>>>> '84 Westy Honey Bee
>>>>> Sacramento, CA
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>
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