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

[robert hensarling]

Hummm..going on my 27th year of using it, I'll read the container tomorrow. 
I'm guessing that I haven't been using the bad stuff.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Freeman" <freemab222 at gmail.com>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] My latest discovery - cleaning up wet epoxy cement


> 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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