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After about eight years and a similar failure last year, this came as no surprise: It’s a W5W “parking light” in the same fixture as the melty halogen high-beam bulbs (used as daytime running lights at half power), so it gets toasted on those occasions when we drive somewhere. The adhesive holding the LED strip…
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A bit of digging showed that the ImageMagick convert program produced an alpha channel that selected only the traces and left everything else unselected.
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We spotted these ice formations on a recent walk.
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The balance point is sufficiently delicate that the additional weight of the epoxy pulls his side down a bit.
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The difference: Slime liners are thinner and don’t have nearly the abrasive power.
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I suspect the grease was applied in the factory to help prevent contact corrosion, but the volatiles are long gone.
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At this point, anybody who’s read Frank Herbert’s The White Plague should get the chills.
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Mary says: I couldn’t make this one up; that is exactly what happened. Ed says: It’s Christmas: we can take the day off from tech, right?
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 