Ever take a MicroVax through the car wash??

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Thu Apr 5 00:18:08 2001

I do believe you're right, Don, as the Winchester primers I remember used to
come in a plastic block with a hole for each primer. Shotgun primers, at least,
having a lip, would probably suffer from the handling abuse dealt out by one of
the brush-equipped vacuum cleaners.

Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Maslin" <donm_at_cts.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 10:36 PM
Subject: Re: Ever take a MicroVax through the car wash??


>
>
> On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Pete Turnbull wrote:
>
> > On Apr 4, 21:33, Tony Duell wrote:
> >
> > > A word of warning. Do not use the water-boiling device often used to
> > > prepare water for tea/coffee for boiling belts
> >
> > Similarly, the low-vacuum generator often found in the broom cupboard
> > should be used with care. Whilst it is useful for gathering up small
> > mechanical or electronic components dropped in awkward places, if it is of
> > the type that "beats as it sweeps etc", it must not be used be used to
> > recover the contents of a box of Winchester primers. The primers will not
> > be usable afterwards.
>
> One presumes that you are not refering to the harddisk area, but rather
> to the repeating arms folks.
> - don
>
> > --
> >
> > Pete Peter Turnbull
> > Network Manager
> > Dept. of Computer Science
> > University of York
> >
>
>
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