>You can wash up most epoxy systems with soap and water fairly easily, you >don't need acetone (which is nasty, too, and as flammable as gasoline). >Soap and water will even clean up brushes okay, as well as other work >implements, but takes more time and elbow grease than acetone does. I >usually use cheapies and just throw the brush or roller cover away after >finishing a job (one for the outside of a canoe, one for the inside, it may >take 4 for a kayak). Squeegies can be washed off fairly easily. Someone once suggested using vinegar to clean up epoxy so long as it hadn't hardened yet. That's now my usual cleanup stuff now and it's worked well. Do any of you chemists out there have any opinions re safety with this? *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Mar 14 1999 - 19:13:03 PST
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