in the SF Bay Area. came home to a hot house with an attic temp of 130 > degrees.
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> pretty sure nothing is living up there now, but god knows what the heat
> has done to all my long term storage stuff.
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> when does styrene start to deform/soften to be a problem???
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> and to solve it. I've always seen those spinning things on top of
> roofs. Heard they spin automatically by the heat exchange with the
> outside and/or are powered by electricity.
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> also thought of a fan inside the dormer window.
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> ideas???
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> and their ain't no place downstairs for 300+ models......
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> Craig
Many of the decal sheets will suffer (or be rendered unusable); but the plastic is pretty resilient. My parent's attic is that hot (if not more, being here in Texas...), and I have had kits up there for years, some 20 years. Even vac-forms have survived. I don't recall any being heat damamged. Now, I did once leave a sprue sitting on the dashboard, while the car sat in the summer sun. It was a total loss. Perhaps the intense heat, with the direct sunlight, in the confined space of a closed car?