Conference terri::cars_uk

976.0. "Rusty Remote Control" by LARVAE::NISBET_D (Dougie Nisbet) Mon Mar 05 1990 10:19

	 After a particularly unhappy Sunday putting plastic
	 padding in my car, (ex-car, it has ceased to be), I
	 wandered back into the house to watch telly. (I bet
	 your rivetted).

	 So, I picked up the TV remote control, like you do,
	 thinking, it's only a little bit of of
	 plastic-padding, it'll wear off after a while.

	 But it hasn't. My TV zapper is covered in solid
	 white stuff, and has been like that for 6 months.
	 We've tried lighter fluid, but that just made us
	 feel good. It didn't do anything to the PP.

	 Mr TV Rental Man will want his telly back sometime.
	 Whatever am I going to do to get this stuff off?

	 Dougie

	 

	 

I spent a week lovingly repairing the back of my ex-escort with plastic padding,
only to have someone shortly afterwards drive into it.  Most of the PP fell off
in the impact (the metal bent and the PP didn't, hence they came apart).  So if
you tie the remote control to the back of your car and get someone to drive into
it, all the PP should fall off.

But seriously, I think very carefully chipping / filing it off is your only
answer.  Or pretend to the rental company that you've lost the remote control,
or say you left it in the sun and it just went like that by itself, or...

Sorry, it's one of those days... (see 963.61)

Scott