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Date:         Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:21:17 -0500
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Goopy stuff on dish drainer
Comments: To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <4AB93AA8.1020107@gmail.com>
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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 <camping.elliott@gmail.com> 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 >> <camping.elliott@gmail.com> 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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