Red chalkline chalk stains on skin/shirt
geoffhazel
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My 13 YO daughter’s “friend” got hold of her Dad’s yellow bottle of red chalkline chalk and was having fun squirting it all over her friends. Got it on their clothes and arms. Now everyone is finding it doesn’t wash out of clothes or wash off their arms. The bottle indicates possible skin irriation, and the kids are all worried (or at least my daughter is).
Anyone have any experience with chalk stains on clothes or skin? I’m not too worried about it, but since my daughter is, I figured it wouldn’t hurt to ask around. If ANYONE knows something, somebody here should.
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Geoff,
I've had fresh red chalk on my hands and arms for weeks at a time. Can't say that it ever irritatyed my skin. My GF, yes, but not my skin. As for clothes, I think all concrete form setter work clothes come from the factory with various red stains (|:>)
SamT
Can say that I've ever experienced skin irritation from the red chaulk but the bottle has a dislaimer that there is no known cleaning agent for the stuff...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming....
WOW!!! What a Ride!
My "clean-all" method is to wash the skin with liquid dishwashing - not dishwashER - soap, WITHOUT ANY water. Apply it to the skin dry and rub - a lot. You can even use a white teflon pad when rubbing. Slowly add water and rinse. It's amazing what it gets out. Even alkyd paint that hasn't dried yet! It has no effect on uerethane glues though.
F.
Edited 6/30/2004 1:26 pm ET by Frankie
It has no effect on uerethane glues though
figured out anything that does, besides time?
80grit paper on a RO sander, may take the hair off as well tho.
A friend claimed that GoJo will, evidently with some scrubbing, will remove red chalk from skin. I don't think anything will shift it from clothes but I have used GoJo, handcleaner, for removing grease and it doesn't seem to damage the clothing. It might work but I suspect these things are permanent.
Have you called the people who make the chalk?
Red chalk is forever. I had a half gallon dump on a deck 20 years ago, and it's still there. I don't think it really ever comes off of skin, all that rubbing just spreads it around and kind of blends it in. It's definitely good stuff for popping out walls on floor that's going to see some weather or wear.
I've never had it irritate me, but it has irritated others...I have been ripped a new one by a POed painter, when I used on a primed sheetrock wall. <G> Don't worry, we can fix that later!
yup, b4 lasers..I used ta snap a level line for hanging cabs.The painters would flip if I used a red line, begged for blue..it blended in white paint better..
I used to be (no kiddin) color blind..and could not readily see blue on black roof felt..( only had one damn chalk box then) so I switched to the Flourescent Orange..In my area, I was the first to use it..man, I had guys sayin''''' " What the hell is THAT"..LOL
Now I know better..I don't have any RED to be found..orange and blue..only.
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I've got to ask, so pardon my ignorance...but, were you born colorblind? And then woke up one day and could see colors? That must have been a hell of a day!
Or a hell of a night before ;) what was her name?!
DP..fer shure. I was CB since birth ( AFAIK)..made it thru the USN..faking it...actually was a pilot.
I had a so-called rare green looks blue, blue looks black. I KNEW the difference, but SAW a different color ( hue, whatever) than everyone else did.
At about 35, (I'm now almost 44) I had severe headaches , like maybe migranes? And actually sought Med Attn. ( odd for me, I never, ever go to a doc. less I'm fixen to die)..any way, as I was going into the office from the parking lot..a dog was there. This dog came right up to me..looked at me. I looked at him/her an realized this dog had one blue/one brown eye..I mean ALL dogs might have a brown eye..this was his/her FACE..LOL
I said to my SO who drove me there.." look that dog has a blue and a brown eye"..then I saw the GRASS and THE SKY, and I fainted. Seems something was pressureizing a nerve or circulatory supply in an occular nerve..the head aches were a symptom of the blood supply being FU'ed.
Good thing I was at the med center..they CAT scanned me, and then set me up with an Opthomologist..or whatever..and pronounced me with " eyesight so good you ought to be a pilot"
Seems normal now, there are some times I still ain't sure if "my eyes are playin tricks on me" or if that green is really green..I hate painting, wood working is mostly reds an browns..maybey thats why I chose that?
It truly felt like a miracle..still does at times..wonder who's dog that was?
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Repairs, Remodeling, Restorations.
red chaulk, they call dead red around here. it will stain concrete
WOW! That is a fantastic story dude! Love to hear stuff like that.
The "brown eye" line resulted in a good deal of Copenhagen on the moniter!
No, I didn't. I figured they already disclaimed everything on the package, and I was looking for some real-world experience. Once again, the Breaktime Forum does not disappoint!
Edited 6/30/2004 7:06 pm ET by GeoffH
Red is intended to be permanant, blue removable. I don't know why red is used in so many situations where the mark is only needed for the moment since it won't come off.
In any case, if there is any way to get it off the folks who live with it at the factory would know.