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Subject:Re: retiring
From:Larry Alofs
Date:Thu, 23 May 2013 08:25:59 -0400

Acetone...good stuff...powerful solvent...not too toxic...evaporative
disposal.  "Better living through chemistry"   :-)

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@q.com> wrote:

> Acetone.  Don't get it on paint or plastics.
>
> Karl Wolz
> Sent from my electronic umbilicus
>
> On May 21, 2013, at 9:20 AM, "Fuhrel, Robert" <robert.fuhrel@CSN.EDU>
> wrote:
>
> > I'm retiring in a month, partly because I've merely been treading water
> here, spinning my wheels so to speak.  So I will have more time for my '83
> Vanagon.  First, a request for advice, please.  Yesterday, I was
> supergluing the rubber insulation strip on the driver's side door as it was
> hanging down from my immediate left to just behind me as I drive.  I guess
> I got some super glue in the door lock button slot, and now I cannot unlock
> the door there from without or within.  Someone told me that lighter fluid,
> unlit, might dissolve super glue.  Does it?  I don't need to be advised to
> be more careful with the glue, thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> > Best,
> >
> >
> >
> > Bob
>

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