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Model Forum / General / Models / December 2005Plastic bugs and PE bugs?
It has been several years since we have talked about plastic bugs. You know- these are those tiny little beasties that live on your floor, and when you drop a small part on the floor they devour it before you can find it. I am having similar troubles now with photo etched parts. Have the plastic bugs evolved now so that they also eat brass and stainless steel, or are these NEW bugs? > It has been several years since we have talked about > plastic bugs. You know- these are those tiny little [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Have the plastic bugs evolved now so that they also eat > brass and stainless steel, or are these NEW bugs? Not quite Don. Y'see, (going into expansive patronising mode) while scientists are out hunting wormholes around exploding supernovae and black holes and such, I've been telling'em for years they could cut to the chase and investigate the average modellers workbench carpet area. It's the only consistent explanation for such widespread phenomena. I've recently read in the latest scientific journal that one specie of plastic bug has mutated into several subspecies of insect and they are now proliferating at an even higher rate. I believe the advent of PE is responsible for the increase in species and population. Of course, this all means that more of our detail parts will be disappearing with alarming regularity. Bah, humbug! The Keeper > It has been several years since we have talked about plastic bugs. You > know- these are those tiny little beasties that live on your floor, and [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > plastic bugs evolved now so that they also eat brass and stainless > steel, or are these NEW bugs? It is an evil Commie plot! They tease us with all these beautiful detail sets, make us believe "There Is No Model" with out them then treat about 1/5 of the very most important parts with their new disintegrating spray. As long as the whole fret is complete, the electrons can flow throughout the whole structure. When we take off the first part, the electron flow is disrupted and the treated parts start disintegrating. The proccess is accelerated when the treated part is removed from the fret, which ends all electron flow throught the part. -- Chuck Ryan Springfield OH >>It has been several years since we have talked about plastic bugs. You >>know- these are those tiny little beasties that live on your floor, and [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > Chuck Ryan > Springfield OH Seriously, I have noted that in dry winter air, small PE pieces do seem to pick up a charge, just like tiny pieces of paper. They seem to be attracted to my tweezers at first, but then when the tweezer touches them, they then seem to have a minor repulsion from the tweezers. |
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