Date:         Mon, 1 Aug 2011 20:52:15 -0500
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From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: scraping glue in the sun
Comments: To: Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
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I'm from Texas.  99 F is really not alarmingly hot.  But, I have always told folks that I can put on enough clothes to keep warm in the cold, but no one can take off enough to keep cool in the heat.

Actually, clothing is the real solution, despite the way young men always dress to show how tough they are (no shirt, out in the sun).  Look how people in North Africa and the Middle East dress -- in the heat.

mcneely
---- Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote: 
> I couldn't do it, honestly. At least in a cold climate you can put on a sweater, what can you do when it is hot? Wet T-shirt?
> 
> alistair
> 
> 
> On 2011-08-01, at 6:07 PM, ralph meyermann wrote:
> 
> > Try 99°f with heat index of 106° putting interior back together and Hi Fi install the new canvass is next week what sweaty fun
> > 
> > 
> >> On Aug 1, 2011 7:59 PM, "Alistair Bell" <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
> >> 
> >> 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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David McNeely