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
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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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