Okay, I know I may be stating the obvious here….but I’ve never found a real use for this stuff until last night and man oh man is it sticky!
The warnings on the can say to wear gloves when using the stuff, but I figured that was like a warning label telling you to wear eye protection when using a tape measure…
Bottom line: I would have put on rubber gloves if the label had read “you should wear gloves when using this stuff. I’m not kidding, it’s freaking sticky!” ….Then maybe I would have listened.
-Justin
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Paint thinner before it dries or wait a couple of weeks and it will wear off.
WD-40 on your hands, works too (just a different set of ignored warnings <g>)
Hmm, there used to be a product that was an "invisble" glove. You rinsed the stuff over your hands, and it formed a thin film. Anything that stuck to "you" was really sitting on the film, which washed off.
Probably too sensible a product to last.Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
Once it's dried, it just has to wear off.
Not that I know that from personal experience, or anything.
Leigh
haha, right! ....a couple of weeks sounds like great fun! The plus side is that I think I filled in the grooves on my fingers so that my fingerprints probably won't even telegraph onto surfaces anymore....could go on a crime spree?"If God didn't want me to wear this Led Zeppelin shirt everyday he wouldn't have made them rock out so hard"
...I've never found a real use for this stuff until last night...
young pup, eh? I thought everyone knew about using foam to replace disintigrating wood in any application...it lends a special elegance and style when used as window casing - - always a good touch filling the void where the chimney is leaning away from the house and the birds are getting in...even useful in body work applications, filling rust holes...
- - foam and silicone caulk...what's in your truck?
Roar! But you left out the part about tooling over the foam with painter's latex caulk 'cause it cleans up better than poly.
Heavens, I mean you gotta protect it from the UV, right?
Got an orange? Try squeezing the peel all over your hands, crush it up real good. I have used that to remove all sorts of stuck on crud from my hands. I discovered it one day after having used some great stuff, I sat down to eat lunch started peeling the orange and the stuff came right off...
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What would I do without you SYSOP? haha, thanks!"If God didn't want me to wear this Led Zeppelin shirt everyday he wouldn't have made them rock out so hard"
I've had that happen more than once.your hands look black for weeks...totally sux.
I found a great way to get it off though.
Get a burlap sack.
Kill a cat.
Put the cat in the sack.
Go out to a swamp on a full moon.
Swing the bag with the dead cat over your head ten times.
Bury the cat in the swamp.After all that you'll never forget to wear gloves dope....lol.
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The modern version of the orange is called "Fast Orange" Great stuff, removes grease paint wood stain and on and on
you whimping out on us J????
real men don't do gloves....
tolulene and sand paper or wait several weeks to go away on it's own.......
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Wimpin? I just explained how I bypassed the gloves thinking it was ridiculous....
My point would be that if I knew great stuff was so damn sticky gloves would have been a welcome idea! tough is one thing, sticky is just plain annoying.The four most expensive words in construction are 'I can fix that' - Dave Crosby
Let me guess:
The great stuff didn't always come out the end of the straw like it was suppose to?
You couldn't resist the urge to try tooling it before it cured?
You went and brushed up against some with yer new carharts and suddenly the stuff is everywhere.
how in the world did I get that on the rearview mirror?
I've got a big dolup of Poleurathane construction adhesive squarely centered on the cab of my truck - outside. I have to climb up and reach way out there to confirm that it's stuck there for eternity. Now that was a trick...
Oh and just in case you didn't know makes a great packing filler. Just bag your item spray some foam in the bottom of the box, place your item in, then spray all around it wait till it cures, saw off anything poking out, tape and send. Learned that from some Delta parts I got a while back.
Our shipping department uses a system very similar to the Great Stuff foam for packing our delicate electronics. Works great.
The box gets lined with a thin plastic, foamed, plastic put on top and the part put on that while the foam is still soft so that the foam takes the shape of the part. More plastic on the part, foam on that and plastic on top.
Very sweet operation, and great impact protection.
Leigh
Is that with or without the part in a plastic bag????
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!
okay...
I shoulda said whining...
with all the crying yur doing about it...
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!
It's the nails.
Under the fingernails.
A week later in line at a store register the cashier looks down to place the change in his hand and she gasps.
'It's too long to explain' he cries as he puts his sweatshirt hood up over his head and runs from the store.
Yeah, them crescent chunks are a bitch..but the bright side is....................no more hang nail cuticles, them suckkas are stayin in place!
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Hate when I get it in my hair.
Acetone will easily remove the stuff from your hands.
Acetone will easily remove the stuff from your hands
Not after it's dried! Well, at least it didn't work for us.
Leigh
I dump acetone down the used spray tubes, get rid of the old foam and re-use them.
Haven't thrown away a part can of the stuff in a vry long time.
There are "Great Stuff-Type" products out there that clean up with water. Once dry, it is water proof.
I know, because I got really sticky just once and was forced to do some research... <g>
(Heck, you can even get the straw clean so's you can use it more than once.)
I'm so old I remember when they sent a pair of flimsy plastic gloves WITH the can...under the cap IIRC.I guess the subway sandwich shops are buyin all them now.
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Everyone gets at least one lesson working with this stuff. No worries. The black hands will wear clean.
I have seen far worse. 'Great Stuff', especially if you fail to shake it up can come out like 'Silly String' and fly a considerable distance. Saw two young helpers play with the stuff. Spraying it everywhere. Clothes, woodwork, painting, hair covered. Word is they thought it would wash out with water and were shocked to find this was wrong. Pure luck none got into an eye.
A similar warning goes for all the urethane based glues and foams. Gorilla Glue, Titebond Urethane and PLPremium are similar. The spray foams are slightly more dangerous as the material is under pressure.
While still wet I have had luck removing this stuff with lacquer thinner but you have to get it early. Not entirely ironically I seldom wear gloves with this stuff. It is so very sticky and gooey that it gums up the latex or plastic gloves and ends up more widely spread.
Usually I dampen a rag with thinner and work bare handed wiping my hands frequently. If you do this keep some hand lotion handy at the end of the job to replace the oils the thinner strips from the skin. If you don't do this you soon won't need sandpaper, with time you can also discard sharpening stones, and the girlfriend/s, and/or wife/s (Some guys are very busy.), will demand you wear gloves.
Any urethane that gets missed on the hands, body or hair can often be, at least partially, removed with vegetable oil. Even the conservatives should use it liberally and take five minutes or more to massage it in. The longer you keep it on the better it works.
A female helper was able to get most of it out of her hair by soaking her hair with vegetable oil and wearing a shower cap for the night. Saturday morning she shampooed the gunk off. Most of the urethane came off and her boyfriend liked the french fry smell. She also claimed her hair was never better moisturized.
I suspect the oil gets between the urethane and the surface it is sticking to. It may also soften the skin and allowing the upper layers of the skin to slough off taking the glue with it. Leaves the skin soft.
Not sure of the wisdom of taking beauty advice from a construction site. I have seen guys blow dry their hair with a heat gun, on low of course, and file down unruly finger nails with a 4" grinder using delicate touch.
Finally! A post we can agree on!
I like the comment about conservatives....what have you got for Libertarians?
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Libertarians don't like to force objects that would rather separate stay together. The right of secession and all that. They don't use glue or sticky stuff. Or fasteners like nails. Too much like violence. Too binding and disrespectful of the individuals boards rights for them.They would rather give a rousing speech in front of lumber delivery truck and the pieces are expected to self-organize into a home without friction or violence and hold together by 'natural affiliation' and mutual respect for each others 'natural rights'.Needless to say there aren't many truly Libertarian builders or houses. Those few there are don't last long.Edited for spelling.
Edited 11/19/2004 8:32 pm ET by 4LORN1
Yes, any kind of oil or grease you can get between the gunk and your skin will cause it to release. So all you really need to do is eat enough super-greasy fast food, and thereby apply the release agent from the inside. ;-)
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A while back I used to sub for a contractor with a very entertaining super. He'd start drinking at lunch, and by quitting time, he was always ready to share a case or two with whoever was around. One night there was some Great Stuff involved. Somehow, some got squirted into the super's shirt pocket. Without missing a beat, the sloshed super acquired the can of Great Stuff, pulled out the squirter's belt (& pants), & released a rather copious amount foam into his underwear.Shaving turned out to be the cure...the stuff has a huge entertainment value LOL Don't worry, we can fix that later!
The stuff only lasts 4 or 5 days on my skin...
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Great Stuff's useful, but be very careful with that crap, people- isocyanates are very, very nasty. It reacts with water, and doesn't much care if that water's in your lungs or part of the cells in your skin... Some people get allergic reactions to isocyanates that kill 'em dead after a couple of encounters with the stuff. If you get any allergy symptoms after using it, play it safe and get someone else to do the job for you! Use only in a well ventilated area and wear disposable gloves. If not the gloves, at least get a tube of barrier cream- it'll keep the crud from sticking so badly...
Ok, here's an idea for the next "What's the Diff" section of FHB ... What's the difference between an editor who reads directions and one who doesn't?
Seriously, and as a continuation to Darcy ... there are foams that are solvent based, as Mr Fink discovered, and there are water based ones ... I think one of the differences is how much they expand. There is also stuff that doesn't get hard ... it stays like dense foam rubber, and can be easily torn apart with your fingers.
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