Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:34:22 -0700
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From: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Goopy stuff on dish drainer
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The flow pattern suggests that the counter was in the upright position
when the stuff was first liquefied, then the lid was closed and the van
took a nosedive.
See
http://picasaweb.google.com/j.michael.elliott/DripTray?authkey=Gv1sRgCMCB6orW6O-Uaw#5383981513851249842
--
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 9/25/2009 1:58 PM Dave Mcneely wrote:
> 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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