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Re: Plastic film removal

To: Phil Ethier <pethier@isd.net>
Subject: Re: Plastic film removal
From: Scott Hall <sch8489@garnet.acns.fsu.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 17:11:43 -0400 (EDT)
somebody's gonna be unhappy, but: what's a slot car?  I was under the
impression it was the little electric matchbox car you got for christmas
and broke the track two days later.  no?

On Wed, 23 May 2001, Phil Ethier wrote:

> ><< > Oil of wintergreen?
> > > (slot car tire treatment)
> > 
> > I can't believe someone else knows this old trick!
> 
> Believe it.  My high-school mates used this stuff.  I used a different product
> called U-go Blue Goo.  It was actually a coating.  Worked great but did not
> last.  I found it was good for 7 laps of our 10-lap races, so I would build
> up a lead, then ease off and hope my opponent could not catch me at the end.
>  Often, this strategy worked.

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