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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 >>>>> >


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