Re: [Paddlewise] New boat

From: Joe Pylka <pylka_at_castle.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 22:15:10 -0500
>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?


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