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Jeffrey D Angus  
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 More options Feb 18 2005, 1:24 pm
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From: Jeffrey D Angus <jan...@socal.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:24:34 GMT
Local: Fri, Feb 18 2005 1:24 pm
Subject: Re: Bandspread Dial lettering - horror!
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Tom Adkins wrote:
> Bill Miller wrote:
>> No suggestions, but an experience to relate.  ... and I sprayed a
>> contact-cleaner-lubricant that I'd used previously on other motors
>> into it....  Then, I watched in horror as the whole motor dissolved
>> in front of my eyes,... What a sinking feeling in my stomach...

> When I returned both mirrors were laying on the floor, separated from
> their mounting bases. In a matter of about 37 nano-seconds my insides
> turned to jello and I knew exactly what had happened. The Blaster
> softened and crazed the plastic housings and the spring tension popped
> them off as pretty as you please. That was a $300 brain cramp. Another
> mark in the Don't Do This Again column.

My first experience with "Chemicals that should be avoided."
I was a little kid and was playing with the odds and ends on my
dad's work bench. "This smells interesting, I'll pour it in here."

Note to self. Lacquer thinner and styrofoam cups don't mix.

Jeff

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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
"A life lived in fear is a life half lived."
Tara Morice as Fran, from the movie "Strictly Ballroom"


 
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