hand cleaner tip

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Permatex Parr markets a product that has been renamed
Parr Painter's Clean
Personally attest that it is a mild, non-solvent, non-toxic, lightly pumiced liquid cleaner that completely removes epoxy, urethane, sulfide, silicone, ink - you name it. Hands feel good after you're done.

[CapnK]

Ebb -

One thing I've always done (or, tried to do *ahead of time*, at least ;) ) is to use a liquid hand soap like a hand lotion, rubbing it well into my skin as far up as my elbows, and up, into, and around fingernails especially.

I've used regular soap (get it wet and rub it in to the skin, and gouge into it with your fingernails), liquid soap, and products like GoJo in the same way, all with good results. Doing this ahead of time makes removal of foreign substances (grease, resins, etc...) from the hands fairly easy afterwards.

This will not remove foreigners, though - illegal immigration continues unabated, no matter how much one washes their hands. :D

[ebb]

Down ta boat it's already a bunch of ducks getting lined up to epoxy.

My regimen begins with trying to get barely big enuf unpowdered latex gloves on. Need dry hands for that. Suppose I could add a layer of 'liquid glove' on the hairy wrists and arms - But pride says I'm not getting anything foreign on the arms. Besides, the Permatex will take the stuff right off. Right? No problema, senor.

When it comes to chemicals you MUST have something more than soap on the hands. And the other thing is that what ever you touch. whatever part of the boat, leaves soap prints behind that later may be a problem.

My hands sweat inside the damn rubber gloves, rather have it plain self sweat wrinkling the skin, not mixed with lye, surfactants, and palm oil. Trying to think what duck when would get the arms coated and not the hands.

Then there's the times when you cheat or are unprepared, you know, when you try to beat the protocols and don't bother with protection - I couldn't work with a foreign substance on my relative clean dry mits around the project. The sauna prophylactics are bad enough.

It's an individual choice.
I'm for a couple squirts of Parr cleaner AFTER the war, after the gloves come off.