on Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:41:28PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greg Broiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > >At 03:13 PM 10/19/2001 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > >>/me retreats to iron w/ thermometer. > >> > >>Black and Decker "Light 'n' Easy" iron, cotton dishtowl (folded quarto), > >>"Good Cook" dial thermometer inserted under top fold. With four > >>minutes' preheat, temperature is off the scale (2200F), extrapolating, > >>it looks to be 2700-2800F. After about two minutes, there's a slight > >>yellowing of the dishtowel. > > > >Is it possible you're off by a factor of 10 here? I am very skeptical that > >you have an iron which heats up to 2200 or 2700 degrees Fahrenheit. I would > >expect a little more than a slight yellowing of the dish towel at those > >temperatures, unless you have asbestos dish towels you use along with your > >superheated iron. > > > > > >-- > >Greg Broiles > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >"We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids > > > Kind of like using one of those ugly red lab hot air guns to dry your > hair, eh? > > Definitely an honest mistake.
As previously posted, an iso-8859-1 to ASCII encoding error. The degree symbol was converted to a zero. Divide values by 10. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
