Re: Out XXX rated

["Armand Eshleman" <aje1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom,
It would appear to me that some where some how incompatible substances got
together there and caused a reaction
which softened the parent surfaces. If red RTV is the only compound you used
to reinforce the parts then for some
chemical reason the plastic that the parts are made of don't like RTV. If
you used another compound even to clean
the area that in conjunction with RTV may have caused the melt. It sure
doesn't appear as though sunlight or heat
caused the damage. I have had plastic (usually styrene) in contact for long
periods of time with rubber and/or vinyl
do the same thing. I don't believe that the dash parts are styrene but never
the less it is a chemical reaction that caused
your problems. May be if you tried something like JB Weld which seems to be
amazing stuff, and I have never had it
react negatively with mating compounds

Armand


Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 17:52:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Out XXX rated
Message-ID: <20050408175017.O1423@localhost>

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Mahoney, John wrote:

> Before damage:
> <http://wps.com/AMC/1970-AMC-Hornet/images/prelim-dash3.jpg>
> <<
>
> The suspense is killing!  Will we soon see an "after" photo?

After damage:

http://wps.com/temp/rot1.jpg

Flash oversaturated the photo, so I equalized it, so it looks
like really bad paint, but it's just image grain:

http://wps.com/temp/rot2.jpg