Date:         Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:09:59 -0600
Reply-To:     Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: Goopy stuff on dish drainer
Comments: To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <4AB956CC.3070406@gmail.com>
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On Sep 22, 2009, at 4:59 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
> ................
>
> (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)

Maybe you can take  pieces of rubber from an obsolete Vanagon
passenger tire  & glue them to the drainer for new bumpers- I believe
that tire rubber, even under-rated passenger or trailer tires like
Kumho(?)  would hold up better to mis-applied heat on the drainer?

YMMV,

Mr BZ-leaving for Maui again & brain has become an overheated German
blob