Date:         Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:54:21 -0700
Reply-To:     Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Goopy stuff on dish drainer
Comments: To: Melissa Mourkas <westywoman@mac.com>
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Melissa -- your bumpers and Tom Buese's look like half-spheres. Mine are
all kinda pointy, probably on account of the heat that melted them. I
think these were originally sticky-back bumpers half-round bumpers, and
not blobs of white silicone RTV, which was my original guess.

Which makes sense: in a production environment you don't want your workers
waving around drippy squeeze tubes of RTV.

Closer examination* shows that my bumpers have white discs on their
flatsides, which supports the sticky-back bumpers theory.

To use the dish drainer in my Westy, I have to get rid of the melted stuff
-- it's very tacky in both senses of the word. As has been suggested, I
either have to find some solvent** or combination of solvent and elbow
grease to remove the stuff from the drainer, or get a new drainer. Or wrap
aluminum foil over the drainer and pretend that things are fine.


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* I.e., wearing my reading glasses.

** Best to remove the drainer before waving around drippy rag soaked with
acetone or MEK. And wear appropriate gloves: I had a friend who used
now-banned industrial solvents to clean radio transmitter equipment in the
60's and 70's. He died from liver cancer.

--
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:
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> http://gallery.me.com/mmourkas#100172
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> :-)
> Melissa Mourkas
> '84 Westy Honey Bee
> Sacramento, CA
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