[TheForge] My latest discovery - cleaning up wet epoxy cement

robert hensarling rhrocker at hilconet.com
Sun Apr 13 13:26:32 EDT 2008


Denatured Alcohol for me for the past 26 years of building mesquite 
furniture using SystemThree Epoxy.
Of course now I have very brittle bones, something leached most of the 
calcium out of my bones.  It's so bad that I've broken back bones and ribs 
without knowing it.  Some of the others I did know it when they snapped. 
Now I tend to stay away from solvents unless wearing a charcoal style face 
mask and good rubber gloves.  Also I doubt that SystemThree and/or denatured 
alcohol had
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Smith" <jerry_smith at anvilsandinkstudios.com>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] My latest discovery - cleaning up wet epoxy cement


>I use lacquer thinner, it is also an epoxy thinner.
>
> Jerry
>
> --- Peter Hirst <saltydog335 at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> Acetone, methy ehtyl ketone, both readily available
>> at the paint store.  And
>> contrary to mfg recommendations,  acetone works just
>> fine for  thinning
>> epoxy resins even to sparayable consistency.  I once
>> epoxied a 17 foot wood
>> boat  with a two part resin (Read Plastics,
>> Rockville MD), acetone for
>> thinner and a Wagner  airless sprayer, for a
>> fraction of what a WEST job
>> would have run.  The result looked like a varnish
>> ad, I was told. I'll stick
>> with the acetone.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Lon Humphrey" <ironcrossforge at roadrunner.com>
>> To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:08 PM
>> Subject: Re: [TheForge] My latest discovery -
>> cleaning up wet epoxy cement
>>
>>
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