What was I thinking?

This is a mistake I'll never make again. I just painted my engine compartment, and before I did, I took all of the fasteners and everything else on the firewall and inner fenders off. I put everything (except the rubber, plastics and electrical stuff) into enamel reducer, figured I'd get everything really clean before I put everything back together.

So at the end of the night, I put the fasteners (and the enamel reducer) into my cleaning tray. Thought I'd let them dry off in the tray. The tray I usually only use with mineral spirits. You probably know where this story is going.

I get home from work yesterday, and go out to work, and I find my cleaning tray melted to my table, and my fasteners all melted into a ball of liquified plastic tray. I spent the next 2 hrs. cleaning off the fasteners, and soaking them in clean reducer. Fortunately, I got them all clean, and didn't lose anything.

Learn from my big screw up folks, and be careful what you leave enamel reducer, and more importantly your fasteners, soaking in.:beard: