I do believe you're right, Don, as the Winchester primers I remember used to
come in a plastic block with a hole for each primer. Shotgun primers, at least,
having a lip, would probably suffer from the handling abuse dealt out by one of
the brush-equipped vacuum cleaners.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Maslin" <donm(a)cts.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 10:36 PM
Subject: Re: Ever take a MicroVax through the car wash??
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Pete Turnbull wrote:
On Apr 4, 21:33, Tony Duell wrote:
A word of warning. Do not use the water-boiling
device often used to
prepare water for tea/coffee for boiling belts
Similarly, the low-vacuum generator often found in the broom cupboard
should be used with care. Whilst it is useful for gathering up small
mechanical or electronic components dropped in awkward places, if it is of
the type that "beats as it sweeps etc", it must not be used be used to
recover the contents of a box of Winchester primers. The primers will not
be usable afterwards.
One presumes that you are not refering to the harddisk area, but rather
to the repeating arms folks.
- don
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York