then there is a good reason for it! I discovered last night that expanding foam doesnt readily come off fingers and what makes it worse is all the dirt and dust made my fingers turn black so I look like I have been digging in the garden all morning! I guess it will come off eventually :o(
Yep. In about a week.
Polyurethane glue does the same, for future reference.
.andy
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i had the same experience last year took about 3days until i managed to scratch it all of :-( that will teach me to read the instructions........
A similar thing happened SWMBO when we were decorating our first room - I said "It says wear gloves and it looks a bit nasty", she said "Don't be soft, it will be fine". And then spent the next hour in the bathroom trying (without success) to get it off. Laugh? Me? Never.
If it's any consolation it only took a few days in the end.
Try getting a bit up your arms where the hairs are - leaves a bit of a bald patch and hurts like hell to pick it off! AJ
Must be time to point this out again for newcommers who've not seen it...
The US military have researched using expanding foam for riot control. You spray the stuff over the naughty people and they end up stuck to each other, themselves, the ground etc. Sounds like it should work.
Women pay a lot of money for that. We should patent the application....
.andy
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We should suggest it to Mr. Speaker. He could buy a few cases.
None of this mucking around with purple flour.
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I do remember that story, obviously before the days of camera phones :o)
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Tell me about it - I used some for the first time recently.
The trouble is you never believe the instructions these days, flux is ok if you don't get it in a cut , or rub your eyes; most things marked corrosive arent (very), so you see yet anuvver "wear gloves" and think "b***s" and you've got this fearsome muck everywhere.
I also tried shaping it with a wet knife. Anyone know how to get it off?
mike
After it cures, which it does using water, the only way I know of is mechanical - i.e. scrape or wear off.
I've had a modicum of success with some stuff called Resinega which is mainly intended for paints and resins but works reasonably well on this if you're persistent.
Before it cures, I've found that acetone seems to affect it fairly well.
.andy
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I found that 2 hours kayaking in the river Avon (Bristol/Bath area) got rid of all traces of foam filler including the black brick dust it had glued to my hands!
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Thanks Andy, I think I'll settle for wearing off.
Scraping it off a ssharpish knife seems like a ticket to Casuality.
mike
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Not quite the same stuff though
Be brave and rip it off quickly - like a plaster
it's the DIY version of a mexican waxing
LOL
or for the delicate of heart, the ROS.
The more adventurous could use a spindle moulder, with appropriate cutters of course....
-- Richard Sampson
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OK. Actually, Resinega is not at all unpleasant. It's a fine gritty stuff in a liquid soap base. Cleans effectively without wrecking the hands.
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Not now that they have limiters. They don't take off enough skin at a time. Besides, it wouldn't be any good if you used the glue joint cutters.
Now the planer.......
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