replying to Bill Woods, Uncle Smart wrote:
I tried meths - no avail. WD40, turps, and all sorts of stuff. Even tried
whisky (passed thru my kidneys first), felt better but didn't stop the
stickiness. Eucalyptus oil started to attack the bloody Araldite but best was
the nail polish remover. That worked. Why can't the massive conglomerate of
Dulux/Shelly's give tips on their packaging for help on Araldite mess on skin?
Too much to ask?

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In the 14 years since Bill got Araldite on his hands I think the skin cells on his hands would have changed enough times for the problem to go away. The active ingredient in nail polish remover is Acetone.

Yes . I have a cautionary tale about Acetone. A reason to be very very
careful when using it.
I worked for a company once who wound coils for TVs. The windings were
secured in place by a solvent based glue. The design often needed runny
glue, so acetone was used to thin the glue down so it could be applied by a
brush as the coil was wound on a machine.
Thus, there was a room in a kind of lean to on the main building where cans
of acetone, and other chemicals were stored. It could get very cold in there
in the winter so somebody had blocked up the vents and fan ducting with
duct tape and cardboard.
However it was one of the hottest days of the year and somebody was
despatched to decant some acetone into some small bottles for use on the
shop floor. After a few minutes the person had not returned so the
supervisor went to find them, to find them passed out on the floor and the
stench of acetone suffocating. She dragged the person out, who, fortunately
was still alive and eventually they came around.
There was a huge stink over this and who had bunged up the air circulation
and venting system I can tell you.
Even I have felt extremely queasy when using model aircraft dope in a not
well ventilated shed, so this kind of substance is very very dangerous.


Yes on the tack of where do old threads suddenly resurface from to trap the
non attentive reader, I am not sure, we know that Home Owners club have an
interface for this group which ignores years in its sorting, but it actually
does, quite plainly show the date if of the post, so people need to read it
before responding.
Brian

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In the 14 years since Bill got Araldite on his hands I think the skin
cells on his hands would have changed enough times for the problem to go
away. The active ingredient in nail polish remover is Acetone.

I have had problems this week due to a silicon sealant on my hands -
fingers used to smooth it (on a car) and now my finger tips are scabby and
sore.

Yes the problem is that many are hypergolic, in that they stop moisture.
The area where the silicon is thus dries out and you get scabbing and the
skin is shed. It should sort itself out in a couple of weeks. Could you not
have done it wearing disposable gloves?
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I have had problems this week due to a silicon sealant on my hands -
fingers used to smooth it (on a car) and now my finger tips are scabby and
sore.

On 23/11/2019 05:51, Tricky Dicky wrote:
In the 14 years since Bill got Araldite on his hands I think the skin cells on his hands would have changed enough times for the problem to go away. The active ingredient in nail polish remover is Acetone.


These days not every nail polish remover contains acetone! Bottles of
acetone are available from Ebay at £7/8 litre (more expensive per litre
in smaller quantities)
I also use it for removing superglue and dissolving some plastics in
order to repair some types of plastic. Dissolve some scrap plastic and
use as a glue and/or solvent weld a piece of scrap plastic to what is
being repaired. Recently used to strengthen/repair a crack in a very
cheap plastic bath panel.

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Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:

the problem is that many are hypergolic

yes, I hate it when my hands burst into flames just because I smoothed
out some sealant without gloves on.

"Brian Gaff (Sofa 2)" wrote in message
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However it was one of the hottest days of the year and somebody was
despatched to decant some acetone into some small bottles for use on the
shop floor. After a few minutes the person had not returned so the
supervisor went to find them, to find them passed out on the floor and the
stench of acetone suffocating. She dragged the person out, who,
fortunately was still alive and eventually they came around.

In my first job, in my "gap year" between A-levels and university, I worked
in a research chemistry laboratory. We had various Winchester bottles of
solvents. One of the other students, the nephew of Lord somebody (*) and a
pupil of Marlborough (which he pronounced in the upper-class way:
Mawlborough), was a bit of a tearaway. He had already boasted about how he
took home some ampoules of the amyl nitrate from the cyanide-antidote kit,
for a sexual high. One day, as he was driving somewhere, he started to feel
very light-headed. He claims that he "found" a broken Winchester of ether in
the boot, so no wonder he was drowsy... It's a wonder he didn't either doze
off and crash, or else get blown up (ether burns explosively). I imagine he
took the bottle home to sniff it and it broke when he went over a pothole.


(*) The lad was forever boasting about visiting his uncle at "The House" (of
Lords).

"Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)" wrote in
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Yes the problem is that many are hypergolic, in that they stop
moisture. The area where the silicon is thus dries out and you get
scabbing and the skin is shed. It should sort itself out in a couple
of weeks. Could you not have done it wearing disposable gloves?
Brian


Lesson learned!

On 23/11/2019 11:39, NY wrote:
"Brian Gaff (Sofa 2)" wrote in message
...
However it was one of the hottest days of the year and somebody was
despatched to decant some acetone into some small bottles for use on
the shop floor. After a few minutes the person had not returned so the
supervisor went to find them, to find them passed out on the floor and
the stench of acetone suffocating. She dragged the person out, who,
fortunately was still alive and eventually they came around.

In my first job, in my "gap year" between A-levels and university, I
worked in a research chemistry laboratory. We had various Winchester
bottles of solvents. One of the other students, the nephew of Lord
somebody (*) and a pupil of Marlborough (which he pronounced in the
upper-class way: Mawlborough), was a bit of a tearaway. He had already
boasted about how he took home some ampoules of the amyl nitrate from
the cyanide-antidote kit, for a sexual high. One day, as he was driving
somewhere, he started to feel very light-headed. He claims that he
"found" a broken Winchester of ether in the boot, so no wonder he was
drowsy... It's a wonder he didn't either doze off and crash, or else get
blown up (ether burns explosively). I imagine he took the bottle home to
sniff it and it broke when he went over a pothole.


(*) The lad was forever boasting about visiting his uncle at "The House"
(of Lords).

Where is he now? In the government?

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"Max Demian" wrote in message
o.uk...
On 23/11/2019 11:39, NY wrote:
"Brian Gaff (Sofa 2)" wrote in message
...
However it was one of the hottest days of the year and somebody was
despatched to decant some acetone into some small bottles for use on the
shop floor. After a few minutes the person had not returned so the
supervisor went to find them, to find them passed out on the floor and
the stench of acetone suffocating. She dragged the person out, who,
fortunately was still alive and eventually they came around.

In my first job, in my "gap year" between A-levels and university, I
worked in a research chemistry laboratory. We had various Winchester
bottles of solvents. One of the other students, the nephew of Lord
somebody (*) and a pupil of Marlborough (which he pronounced in the
upper-class way: Mawlborough), was a bit of a tearaway. He had already
boasted about how he took home some ampoules of the amyl nitrate from the
cyanide-antidote kit, for a sexual high. One day, as he was driving
somewhere, he started to feel very light-headed. He claims that he
"found" a broken Winchester of ether in the boot, so no wonder he was
drowsy... It's a wonder he didn't either doze off and crash, or else get
blown up (ether burns explosively). I imagine he took the bottle home to
sniff it and it broke when he went over a pothole.


(*) The lad was forever boasting about visiting his uncle at "The House"
(of Lords).

Where is he now? In the government?

I have often wondered whether he is still alive or whether one of his
hare-brained experiments with dodgy substances has finished him off.

He was the archetypal "expensively-educated twit". He told us in all
innocence how he went for a walk in some woodland nearby and was annoyed and
indignant when he got turned back by security guards and dogs - he said he
didn't know that Chequers was there and that it was out of bounds. I'm not
sure how far he got but he made it sound as if he got to the lawns, with the
house in sight, before he was challenged. This would have been in the early
80s, so when the IRA was a very credible terrorist risk.

I wonder whether his uncle had any children of his own or he would have
become the next Lord Something when his uncle died.

"NY" wrote in message
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"Max Demian" wrote in message
o.uk...
On 23/11/2019 11:39, NY wrote:
"Brian Gaff (Sofa 2)" wrote in message
...
However it was one of the hottest days of the year and somebody was
despatched to decant some acetone into some small bottles for use on
the shop floor. After a few minutes the person had not returned so the
supervisor went to find them, to find them passed out on the floor and
the stench of acetone suffocating. She dragged the person out, who,
fortunately was still alive and eventually they came around.

In my first job, in my "gap year" between A-levels and university, I
worked in a research chemistry laboratory. We had various Winchester
bottles of solvents. One of the other students, the nephew of Lord
somebody (*) and a pupil of Marlborough (which he pronounced in the
upper-class way: Mawlborough), was a bit of a tearaway. He had already
boasted about how he took home some ampoules of the amyl nitrate from
the cyanide-antidote kit, for a sexual high. One day, as he was driving
somewhere, he started to feel very light-headed. He claims that he
"found" a broken Winchester of ether in the boot, so no wonder he was
drowsy... It's a wonder he didn't either doze off and crash, or else get
blown up (ether burns explosively). I imagine he took the bottle home to
sniff it and it broke when he went over a pothole.


(*) The lad was forever boasting about visiting his uncle at "The House"
(of Lords).

Where is he now? In the government?

I have often wondered whether he is still alive or whether one of his
hare-brained experiments with dodgy substances has finished him off.

Shouldn’t be hard to trace home with that sort of background.

The school class photos likely can remind you of his name.

He was the archetypal "expensively-educated twit". He told us in all
innocence how he went for a walk in some woodland nearby and was annoyed
and indignant when he got turned back by security guards and dogs - he
said he didn't know that Chequers was there and that it was out of bounds.
I'm not sure how far he got but he made it sound as if he got to the
lawns, with the house in sight, before he was challenged. This would have
been in the early 80s, so when the IRA was a very credible terrorist risk.

I wonder whether his uncle had any children of his own or he would have
become the next Lord Something when his uncle died.

Cant be too many denizens of the HoL
who don’t have a wikipedia entry.

On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 08:49:11 +1100, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:


Shouldn¢t be hard to trace home with that sort of background.

The school class photos likely can remind you of his name.

Is there no end to your idiotic blather, you lonely senile pest?

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"Ah, the voice of scum speaks."
MID:

On Saturday, 23 November 2019 05:51:59 UTC, Tricky Dicky wrote:
In the 14 years since Bill got Araldite on his hands I think the skin cells on his hands would have changed enough times for the problem to go away. The active ingredient in nail polish remover is Acetone.

Not all nail varnish remover is acetone based.

For example: Superdrug Nail Polish Remover Acetone Free