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

[Bruce Freeman]

Always be sure you know what the alcohol is denatured WITH.  If it's
with methyl alcohol (=methanol = wood alcohol), DON'T use it on your
skin.  Methyl alcohol is absorbed by the skin.  ~2 tsp will kill you.
Less will permanently blind you.

Other things than methyl alcohol are also used to denature ethyl
alcohol.  It'll say on the container.

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 1:26 PM, robert hensarling
<rhrocker at hilconet.com> wrote:
> 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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Bruce
NJ