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