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Somebody told me that carburator cleaner works. I haven't tried it yet.
Don K.
EJG Homes Renovations - New Construction - Rentals
Somebody told me that carburator cleaner works. I haven't tried it yet.
Please don't. It's become common practice for mechanics and others who work with all sorts of petroleum products and other related chemicals to wear surgical gloves, all day.
The reason is that many of these products can be absorbed through the skin into the blood and then be carried to the vital organs where they do irreparable damage over time. The liver is particularly susceptible.
Sorry, but cured Polyurathane will come off with time. If there is a solvent that removes it, I sure wouldn't want to put it on my hands.
Abrasive soap and scour. Couple days and you should be good to go unless you really made a mess.
Lava soap might work, if you can still find it.
"Put your creed in your deed." Emerson
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
go to a rib joint and eat with your hands.
eat alot.
wipe what will come off with a towell and then rinse with lemon juice.
Might work, it takes a whole lot of things off.
A doctor with dirty hands? yuck.
A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
http://www.quittintime.com/
exactly, usually I clean up pretty good, not willing to wait a couple of days.
Then get your #### to the rib joint.
No dry rub stuff-the juiciest ribs you can find.
No fool'in.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
http://www.quittintime.com/
oil. baby oil, salad oil- the poster who mentioned eating greasy ribs was not kidding. and i just coaught that scottthebuilder mentioned oil too. not only will it remove it, it's the safest thing to apply to your skin. it does not work super fast, but it's safeness is worth it. rub a generous amount into hands and just keep rubbing. or put on some gloves as scott suggested. in my experience, it tends to work it's way under the PL before it actually dissolves it. when you feel it loosening up, use a cotton cloth with some 'tooth' like an old dishrag or washcloth, or scrap of linen dropcloth to scrub. reapply oil and repeat as necessary, and your hands will come clean and be in better condition than before.
scrubbing your hands with abrasives is safer than using chemicals, but you can wind up abrading as much skin as PL and wind up with sore dry hands. it is also a good idea to rub oil into your hands BEFORE working with poly and paint, and they will clean up much more easily later.
Edited 11/6/2007 11:23 am ET by msm-s
Thanks. I'll be using PL again this weekend and if I get in troble, I'll remember your help.Kevin
From LePage Products:
PL Premium is very difficult to remove once it is cured. It is important to clean any surface of PL Premium before it has had a chance to dry. A cloth dampened with mineral spirits will help to remove PL Premium in the wet state. Tools can be cleaned by wiping with a dry cloth. Once PL Premium has cured however, it can only be removed by abrading. PL Premium is resistant to solvent when cured and as a result solvents have little effect on the cleaning of PL Premium.
Are your hands brown?
I use an abrasive hand cleaner similar to GoJo called FAST ORANGE. Rinses with water but don't apply any water until you are done.
Pretend you are scrubbing for surgery.
This is like having a coat of paint that will not come off for several days...and then it wears off on its own. If it dries and you haven't wiped it off, you are stuck."The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a governmental program" -Ronald Reagan
Time.
Though you might look at some caulk removers. Something with a name like "Lift Off" was reported as being good for removing Gorilla glue from finished surfaces, should work for skin if not too caustic.
Wife solved the problem, the lava soap idea got me thinking and I tried some of her apricot scrub. Worked a little and than she said try the pumice stone. It takes the dead skin off heels, etc. Worked like a charm, 99% gone.Thanks All for your help, you might want to get a pumice stone, lasts alot longer than the goo type stuff.Kevin
Why do you want to get it off anyway? Glue on your hands is a badge of manhood.
If your view never changes you're following the wrong leader
Good idea! I just got some Great Stuff foam on my hands and forgot to wear the latex gloves. Need to get the stains off before tomorrow where I have a job passing out flyers.Handyman, painter, wood floor refinisher, property maintenance in Tulsa, OK
Yep. Sand it off. Pretty much the only way.
But a nice random orbital sander with 220 loaded up will do the job a lot quicker than a hunk of pumice. ;-)
Mike HennessyPittsburgh, PA
Nah, this is clearly a job for the detail sander attachments on a MultiMaster.
If your view never changes you're following the wrong leader
Hey, thanks! I'll add that one to my list of excuses for "neeeeding" a Multimaster. ;-)
Mike HennessyPittsburgh, PA
I wear mocassins a lot and am always getting a humongeous callus on my right heel. I managed to keep it to a reasonable level with one of DW's pumice stones, but it took for-freaking-ever to sand it down.
In a hurry one day, I grabbed my trusty ROS loaded with 60 grit and ground that bad boy down in under a minute. A few weeks ago, I was talking to a plastic surgeon at a party and he told me that he used a Dremel tool on calluses. He got real interested, however, in my ROS idea. - lol
I can see an idea here...put together a medical-grade callus sander, and market it to dermatologists and spas everywhere. You'd make a mint!
Jason
Damn, what a plan!!!! Maybe like one of those bone saws that orthropedists use. They cost a gazillion dollars and look like a MultiMaster. - lol
When I got my casts sawn off, they used a Fien Triangle sander ( before the MM was the MM) with a round blade .Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
"If you want something you've never had, do something you've never done"
Yep, pumice stone is the right answer. 99 cents at any pharmacy.Works like a charm with gorilla glue, too.
We keep a pumice stone in the bath. Both of us use it regular - me on my hands and her on her feet
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saved my #### last night, really didn't want to see patients with hands like that.Hey!! I typed a--, I've heard it said over and over on prime time TV, what's up?
Edited 11/2/2007 9:59 pm ET by dockelly
We're not quite ready for prime time.
If your view never changes you're following the wrong leader
"The not ready for primetime players"
That would be
pre-prime players
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more like unprimed
and because of that, we'll be rotting soon
Yeah, if you'd used a good primer the PL would NEVER come off.
If your view never changes you're following the wrong leader
I find going surfing for a few hours softens up my skin enough that it either the top layer sloughs off easier or the other possibility is nothing will stick to skin that is so well hydrated. My hands are never cleaner than when I get out of the water after a few hours of surfing.Karl
Its more important to make sure you don't come home and get any Betodine on your finished trim! ; ^ )
Priorities Doc Mike
Trust in God, but row away from the rocks.
I came home with PL Premium on my hands last week and my wife asked if it was Plumbing joint compound (the usual culprit). Without thinking I replied "No, it's Piffin glue".
Piffin screws, Piffin glue. I'm trying to think of an appropriate Piffin name for Advancetech.
Piffin Planks
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Piffin ply
I've seen it a few times now. What ARE "Piffen Screws"? :)
The screws Piffin recommends for hanging kitchen cabinets. (NOT!)
If your view never changes you're following the wrong leader
For an amusing read try an advanced search on screws vs nails.
Piffin has strong views on the use drywall or other non-structural screws for anything requiring shear strength due to their brittleness.
Got it. I agree about drywall scews. Just torquing them hard sheers them.
Acetone and lacquer thinner with a green scrubbie. There's cancer down the road with that but hey....you wanted to know.
"Die young, live fast, 'cause it won't last..." Blondie
As everybody said, it's not easy.
Scrape off the thicker areas with the edge of a knife blade. Actually the thicker stuff comes off easier than the thinner.
For the thinner stuff soak you hands in warm water to soften the skin, then use Lava or some other pumice cleaner with a white Scotchbrite pad.
To think some people pay to get exfoliated!
Jim
a long soak in a tub or just keeping hands wet in rubber glove will get them "pruney" and soft enough to scrub the glue off of the skin with a green sponge or even a rough cloth.
I go through a lot of disposable gloves (sometimes two pair at a time) when I use gorilla glue. The vinyl ones work better because petroleum solvents, like mineral spirits, turn latex into swiss cheese.
If the glue up involves driving screws I wear a pair of $2 cotton gloves over the vinyl ones to keep the fingers from twisting up around the screw.
I go through a lot of disposable gloves (sometimes two pair at a time) when I use gorilla glue. The vinyl ones work better because petroleum solvents, like mineral spirits, turn latex into swiss cheese.
The gloves you want are made of nitrile; vinyl gloves don't stretch so they don't fit worth a snot. Ever watch a McKid flipping burgers wearing those things? Clumsy ain't even the word....
You want something that stretches to form-fit your hand and fingers; otherwise you'll be dropping tools and fasteners or getting the glove caught in a driver or bit or blade and start losing body parts.
Nitrile gloves are specifically made for chemical resistance and they are allergen-free, which was one other objection to latex. (Most non-sterile medical gloves are now nitrile, too.) If you get the 8-mil-thick ones with textured palms and fingers, you can re-use them several times, too. They are amazingly tough.
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
Wow. Form fitting, textured, re usable and tough? Do they make nitrile condoms?
LOL. Man, you must be really vigorous!
Do they make nitrile condoms?
I guess you didn't get the SPAM from Angelica Ample offering super-humongous-extra-large full-coverage re-usable Scotsman's Dream Blue Tartan condoms....
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
"Angelica Ample "Good one!
Have you seen the name Delilah D'Cuppula?Thinking up names for those lassies must be challenging work
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Razz me for occasionally wanting clean hands. I am bracing for it..........But this stuff is worth mentioning. Stoko Cupran Special hand cleaner. I buy it in tubes at a commercial paint store that sells a lot of epoxy. I have yet to find ANYTHING it will not remove if you catch it before it cures. If it does cure try baby oil all over hands and then slip them into a pair of vinyl gloves for about 10 minutes then try again. What doesn't come off you can sand off.
http://www.stokoskincare.com/prodclean.htm
Have you seen the name Delilah D'Cuppula?
Any relation to Francis Ford D'Cuppula?
Dr. Jubal Harshaw, Esq., M.D., Robert A. Heinlein's triple-threat lawyer/doctor/author protagonist in Stranger in a Strange Land advanced the considered opinion that female names ending with the letter 'A' always made the reader think of D cups.
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
Names starting with a capital D don't hurt either
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About three years ago I started a thread, something like "Gorilla Glue stains on my new Carhartt coat, how to remove??".
Three years later they are still there in 100% original condition. There is no solvent. Someone suggested soaking the coat in the rod pools at a nuke plant. That might break it down a little.
It comes off your hands in 3-5 days.
Palm Sander!
Of course!
If your view never changes you're following the wrong leader
But for the nails seems like you'd need some sort of nailer.
If your view never changes you're following the wrong leader
I use a can of foam gun cleaner (basically acetone) sprayed onto a rag if I need to remove any pl on the job so my hands aren't stained later. It's nice to have some hand lotion to go with it.
For any that gets by, or for the days when it's just not that important to keep it 100% off the hands, a pumic stone in the shower takes off the rest pretty good. I also keep a stiff fingernail brush in the shower and it works soso on some areas the pumic stone can't reach.
Before a hot date I have resorted to sanding and have a few coarse fingernail file boards that are handy for such things, although sandpaper is probably as good.
I'd love to find a way to get pl out of clothes! I have a dozen pairs of carharts that I'm half embarrased to wear around our more conservative clients.
Good building
Beer was created so carpenters wouldn't rule the world.
sandpaper or why worry about it...
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Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
IMERC,Good to hear from you, dealt with this already with the pumice stone. I was reading through some of my old post and Piffin had suggested a pumice stone months ago, I guess he anticipated I'd end up with the stuff on my hands. :)ThanksKevin
thanks...
add some oraange hand cleaner to that pumice...
mre kinder ans easier..
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