Talk:The Lurking Horror
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[edit] Dangerous millipedes
(sigh) I loved this game. I was recently packing everything into boxes for moving house and found it. The rubber millipede had "melted" into the 3" floppy disk. When I pulled it out, it had left a shaped indentation across one corner. What on earth was it made of?! IainP (talk) 14:14, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- PVC or "vinyl", like many fishing lures. It's made soft and highly flexible by addition of "plasticizers", which are typically oily substances with small molecules that fit among and between the larger molecules of the base plastic and allow them to be moved relative to one another more easily. Unfortunately, the plasticizers leach out onto anything these soft vinyls come into contact with, and often have damaging consequences for other plastic items. Harder PVC formulations, ABS, styrene, acrylic, and many other plastics are vulnerable to such damage. There is no way to remove the plasticizers from the surface of soft vinyl items like this, since more would simply leach out to replace whatever is removed. If you could somehow remove all plasticizers from the item, it would no longer be very flexible.
- The best protection is to keep such items from coming into contact with one another. Fortunately, "Ziplock"-type polyethylene plastic bags are not susceptible to damage from most vinyl plasticizers, and are effective in containing them. Drop the critter in one of those, and it won't eat any more of your floppies. BTW, it represents a centipede, not a millipede.
