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