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Re: [OM] Help - stuck filter

Subject: Re: [OM] Help - stuck filter
From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 01:09:09 -0500
When all else fails, or just because you don't want the hassle of 
rounding up rubber bands and gloves or whatever else might, or 
might not, work, if you're at home and you have an electric stove, 
try this:

1. Take the offending filters to the stove and place them on one 
of the eyes with the stuck filter on top.  In other words, you 
want the filter that's screwed into the other filter on top.

2. Turn the eye on to low, keeping  your hand on the eye.

3. When the eye gets too hot to hold your hand on, which will take 
only a few seconds, pick up the filters and unscrew the now 
unstuck one.

Works every time, takes less than a minute, no mess, no sweat, no 
cussing (unless you keep your hand on the stove eye too long).  
The heat expands the ring of the bottom "host" filter and the two 
come apart with no effort.  About the only thing you can do wrong 
is leave the filters on the stove eye too long so that the heat 
travels through the bottom filter and into the top one and expands 
it too so that you're right back where you started and you'll have 
to do it all over again after they cool off.

Walt


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