[12129] in APO News
Plastic + electric iron = DON'T.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Catherine A Olsson)
Thu Aug 13 12:23:07 2009
From: Catherine A Olsson <catherio@MIT.EDU>
To: apo-news@mit.edu
Cc: alioth@mit.edu
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:22:37 -0400
I don't have the anger for a full-heat flame (because my silkscreening
run is done, yay!), but here's an attempt, because this bears
complaining about:
Alioth and I discovered last night that one of the irons in the office
had a ragged film of plastic stuck and melted all over the bottom of it.
We had to spend precious time and sanity removing all the plastic so it
wouldn't melt/smoke/make fumes/ruin shirts/ruin the iron/etc. Only then
we were able to get our heatsetting done.
I have no idea what happened here, but common sense lessons to learn are
1. irons aren't for plastic, and 2. if you mess something up, fix it
yourself or ask for help, don't just leave it for someone else to deal
with, particularly not when that someone else is already frazzled like
Alioth and I were last night. Thanks =)
Yours in Lunchtime Flames about Silkscreening,
- catherio
