Date:         Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:55:28 -0700
Reply-To:     Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
Subject:      Re: Goopy stuff on dish drainer
In-Reply-To:  <4AB84A18.1010705@gmail.com>
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I'll be sure to fire up a generator outside of your room so you don't feel
too out of place.

Cya,
Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Rocket J Squirrel
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 8:53 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Goopy stuff on dish drainer

Nope. I didn't discover the dish drain cover even existed until we'd had
the van for a few months, and the first time I opened it I discovered the
melty stuff. Creeped me out so much we closed it right back up and never
used it. Decided this weekend to take a shot of it and ask for help.

But what happens? Do I get help? Do I get even the basic human respect
that any of us, even the least (you know who I'm talking about) deserves?

Not a bit of it. For all my troubles I get met with blatant antisquirrelism.

Well that's it. I'm trading in my Westy for a Motel 6 gift card, and I'll
sit in air-conditioned comfort, watching in-room TV with in-room coffee,
and laughing -- yes, laughing! at you poor fools with your 16'' tire
threads, your Vanagon Syndrome threads, and your . . . your . . . all your
/other/ threads.

You won't have Rocket J Squirrel to kick around any more.

--
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 9/21/2009 7:07 PM Jim Felder wrote:

> I should have pointed out that some people like to keep the plastic
> cover on these drains like some people like to keep plastic covers on
> lampshades. Using the stove with the drain lowered might result in the
> kind of mess that MR SQUIRREL SURELY DID NOT MAKE.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Mr. Squirrel,
>>
>> Could it be that SOMEONE (a previous owner, not YOU obviously) has
>> used the stove with the drain cover down and the heat has created the
>> mess you have discovered? Again, I realize that no squirrel would do
>> such a thing, even by accident. Maybe it was home invasion...
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Joy Hecht <jhecht@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>>> That's disgusting.  Nothing like that in my van.  ;-)
>>>
>>> Tried scraping it off with a spatula?  Heating it up to soften it and
then
>>> the spatula?  A metal spatula, not a rubber or plastic one.  Paint
scraper
>>> could be used in the same way.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Joy
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Robert Fisher <refisher@mchsi.com>
wrote:
>>>
>>>> I can't decide if he's messing with our head(s) or somebody is messing
with
>>>> his.
>>>>
>>>> Cya,
>>>> Robert
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of
>>>> Loren Busch
>>>> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 6:05 PM
>>>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>>>> Subject: Re: Goopy stuff on dish drainer
>>>>
>>>> Damn Mike, you get some really weird stuff in your rig.  Just make sure
>>>> there is no "Federal Crime To Remove" label on there somewhere.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Rocket J Squirrel <
>>>> camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The dish drainer / heat shield dingus mounted over the stove burners
>>>>> appears to press into three blobs of some white viscous stuff gummed
onto
>>>>> the underside of the counter when it is not deployed. To reduce
rattling?
>>>>>
>>>>> The blobs have melted or something -- see the picture at
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
http://picasaweb.google.com/j.michael.elliott/DripTray?authkey=Gv1sRgCMCB6or
W6O-Uaw#5383981513851249842
>>>>> It's pretty creepy. Stuff is tenacious. Anyone got any hints on how to
>>>>> remove this goop?
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>>>>> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>>>>> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
>>>>> Bend, OR
>>>>> KG6RCR
>>>>>
>