{"id":10025,"date":"2016-12-04T12:39:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T20:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=10025"},"modified":"2016-12-04T12:41:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T20:41:27","slug":"oh-look-the-feet-ran-and-computer-case-feet-should-not-do-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/04\/oh-look-the-feet-ran-and-computer-case-feet-should-not-do-that\/","title":{"rendered":"oh look, the feet&#8230; ran. and computer case feet should not do that."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is what&#8217;s left of the rubber feet of my 1994 Commodore Amiga 4000\/040.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2016-12\/amiga-feet-640-1.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yep. That&#8217;s a viscous tar-like residue that ran along the bottom of the case and into the gap between the bottom case and the cover. It&#8217;s <Em>very<\/em> sticky and resistant to detergent, but, fortunately, not to citrus-based sticky tape removers. Isn&#8217;t it gross? I mean, seriously, doesn&#8217;t this look like some sort of OOZE OF SATAN special effect?<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2016-12\/amiga-feet-640-2.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Oddly, the stickytape used to hold the rubber feet on was intact! And, as far as I can tell, fine. This actually saved me a lot of cleanup, because the cores of the old feet were pretty solid? The further I removed down, the more like rubber it became. The thickest material had an actual rubber-like consistency.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, all the rubber that <em>ran<\/eM> could be cleaned up pretty easily with an old spudger and a lot of orange oil. But goddamn.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2016-12\/amiga-feet-640-3.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve repaired tube equipment from the second world war and this is the most bizarre materials degradation I&#8217;ve ever encountered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what&#8217;s left of the rubber feet of my 1994 Commodore Amiga 4000\/040. Yep. That&#8217;s a viscous tar-like residue that ran along the bottom of the case and into the gap between the bottom case and the cover. It&#8217;s very sticky and resistant to detergent, but, fortunately, not to citrus-based sticky tape removers. Isn&#8217;t [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy","category-random-coolness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10027,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025\/revisions\/10027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}