> 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

> --
> "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"