Date:         Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:38:41 -0700
Reply-To:     Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Availability of replacement dish drainers?
Comments: To: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@gmail.com>
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I will test your theory and report the results.

--
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 9/23/2009 10:44 AM Jake de Villiers wrote:

> Single edge razor blade followed by lacquer thinner - bye bye blobs...
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Rocket J Squirrel
> <camping.elliott@gmail.com <mailto:camping.elliott@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Rather than purchase and experiment with various noxious solvents to
>     remove the melted* undercounter bumpers from my 84 Westy's dish drainer
>     (see "Goopy stuff on dish drainer" thread for background), it might be
>     easier to simply replace the thing.
>
>     Are the stainless steel dish drainers available, new or used?
>
>
>     =======================
>     * I don't know how to effectively describe the sticky, grippy, tenacious
>     nature of this stuff. A wire brush would immediately gum up. A paint
>     scraper would get globbed up in a second, with thick strands of this
>     substance between the lifted scraper and the stuff remaining on the
>     drainer, and it would never remove the stuff completely anyway: it's in
>     the pores of the metal. Think honey on hardboard rather than paint
>     on metal.
>
>     --
>     Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>     84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>     74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
>     Bend, OR
>     KG6RCR
>
>
>
>
> --
> Jake
>
> 1984 Vanagon GL
> 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
>
> Crescent Beach, BC
>
> www.thebassspa.com <http://www.thebassspa.com>
> www.crescentbeachguitar.com <http://www.crescentbeachguitar.com>
> http://subyjake.googlepages.com/mydixiedarlin%27
>