Greg Broiles <gbroiles@well.com> wrote :

At 03:13 PM 10/19/2001 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:

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/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 gbroiles@well.com "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. Unlike the numbers quoted for available doses of smallpox vaccine which have risen steadily from 3M to 10M as time has passed. Standing in line for vaccination - would you like yours straight up or with soda. They prosecute people for diluting pharmaceuticals don't they? Numbers bloat not quite as outrageous as the US casualty estimates that were part of the decision making process for whether to invade Japan or drop Uranium on it which started out as 10K and reached 1M by the time public statements were issued. Bye, I have to drive 300 miles home now, or is that 3000 miles? and there are over a gazillion cars on the road. 10^53768904523 Regards, m