OK well today I tried to make fiberglass casts for my legs. yes, I attempted this myself without the involvement of a physician. Anyway, I forgot to wear gloves, and now I have this resin shit all over me and it WON'T COME OFF! I could be wrong but I beileve it is epoxy resin. It appears to have polymerized into some plasticy shit and it really sucks. Can anyone tell me how to get it off? I've tried soap, alchohol and mineral oil and none of it works for shit.
I think I have some tolulene in my garage. Would that work?
Tolulene is dangerous! Try acetone instead.
sorry that's TOLUENE
Vinegar!
Are your hands stuck to the keyboard now?
Not yet? Touch yourself.
Try mineral spirits... that usually gets rid of sticky garbage like that. There are several commercial products (Goo Gone and the like) that do a pretty good job with some nasty stuff, and they're harmless for the most part. Good luck.
as a former boat builder and surfboard shaper, nothing works better than acetone.
Go get some Gojo PowerGold from your nearest autoparts place....they make small bottles.....Skip the solvents as that'll make the resin get further absorbed into the skin/bloodstream and that can be ugly later on.....Epoxy Resin isn't something you wanna f' around with.....
4 inch disc grinder works great.
I got some of this on my hands when recoating bathroom tile. I was able to wash it off with hand soap and GoJo before it dried. Took about 30 minutes of vigorous, skin- removing, scrubbing with an abrasive pad. Here's a link to the Materials Safety Data Sheet:
http://www.ximbonder.com/upload/pdfs/TILE%20DOC%20KIT%2054020.pdf
toluene can be a hallucinogen.
Try PURE CITRUS ORANGE AIR FRESHNER SPRAY. Guarantee it will get that junk off your hands. You will be surprised! It really does work. Good luck....
Try hf, you won't need the cast anymore either.
I'm a composites engineer, though haven't been doing it for very long. We usualy use acetone.
If you still have this problem tomorrow morning, post again and I'll ask around at work.
Acetone and other solvents are a sure bet to cause brain Cancer and other Cancers. If you wanted to make do it yourself casts, why wouldn't you just use the proper stuff? You can even get fiberglass wrap in the plumbing department that sets with water and is likely identical in composition to the newer cast material.
Use that GOOP stuff, it takes anything off, including tar
I got some acetone this morning, and it removed about 50-75% of the resin. Maybe I just need to have another go at it.
get some denatured ethyl alcohol, apply it with cotton balls, and keep applying it so that it doesn't evaporate. do this for a couple minutes and then lightly rub it off using a scotch-brite pad or brillo pad. next time keep a bottle of nail polish remover or ethyl alcohol around and do this before the epoxy cures, or just don't do it at all.
take a bath in a couple gallons of vodka