Yes, we are manly men doing manly things. Like peeling shelf paper on warm days. It promises to be broiling tomorrow with highs in the mid-60's F.
BenT sent from my electronic leash On Aug 1, 2011, at 10:47 PM, Mike Miller <mwmiller6@ATT.NET> wrote: > I don't know. Pretty hot here today, almost got to 73 F. Brutal. > > Good thing BenT and I are tough. > > Mike > On Aug 1, 2011, at 9:02 PM, Anthony Egeln wrote: > >> "How the heck can anyone do anything down south" >> >> We work in the shade? >> >> Only mad dogs and englishmen go out in the noon day sun...... >> >> Anthony (northeast Florida and wouldn't live anywhere else in CONUS, >> except if I were rich and could live near BenT and Mike Miller, i.e. >> norcal) >> '89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo) >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA> >> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >> Sent: Monday, August 1, 2011 8:46 PM >> Subject: scraping glue in the sun >> >> I've been out in the sun (here near Victoria BC) scraping and >> sanding off the old glue from the upper bunks plywood - oh sure >> Westfalia, use an adhesive that lets the paper go in patches but >> sticks like you know what to the plywood - and it is nice and sunny >> and only 24 C. But jeez, I'm dying out there. >> >> How the heck can anyone do anything down south, like where Dave >> McNeely lives for instance? >> >> Just in case any other fool wishes to remove that glue from the >> plywood, I found that using a sharp paint scraper to remove most of >> the bubblegum-like glue, followed by a random orbit sander with 40 >> grit paper was the fastest way of many slow ways I tried (heat gun >> and scraper, solvent) >> >> alistair |
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