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Gloves in a Bottle
Fergus OMore:
Comments on another web have been very mixed.
Regardless of what was used as hand protection in the past, we, at least we in the United Kingdom have received endless strictures about trying to minimise or eradicate the Covid-19 virus by repeated handwashing with soap or where this is impractical, by using an alcohol gel.
This advice comes from medical and scientific recommendations fed to us from the highest level of Uk Government.
For my self, I am simply following Government guidelines which contradict what the OP is trying to influence us on what I am assured is on a number of web sites. Me?? , I have a B-13 deficiency at the age of 90-- and have a major skingraft on the inside of my left palm.
To assist in what seemingly is adherence to government guidelines, I use refined lard oil for machining- and appear to be non the worse for this.
For a bit of light reading, I read the safety instructions for this product and note-- can you actually crdit it- the use----of GLOVES.
Whatever next?
Norman
Muzzerboy:
That MSDS tells you almost nothing. This "commercial secret" defence allows the true makeup to be concealed. Some of the products I've seen on sale (partic in the US) are a marketing triumph, reselling bulk commodities at fantastic markups. Things like cleaners, oils and solvents are particular favourites.
vtsteam:
Along those lines (and I once mentioned it here), I find the best oil base (enamel) paint brush cleaner is:
After you're finished painting, add a small drip of salad oil and a squirt of ordinary liquid dish soap directly onto the brush, and work it in well.
Then rinse with water. Repeat a second time, sling off excess water, shape and let dry. The bristles stay nice and pliable, and the brush is truly clean. The cost is nil, and you always have the ingredients on hand.
You don't need brush cleaner, paint thinner, turpentine, mineral spirits, etc. all of which nowadays are very expensive, are themselves difficult to dispose of, are toxic, have high VOCs, are environmentally unsound, and usually sit in a tin can until spilled or evaporated. Worse still are the brushes (some of us :wack: ) forget and leave in the cans, which end up with a clotted mess on the ends, loose bristles, and are never quite clean anyway.
I don't know how many thousands of re-usable brushes I've thrown away in my lifetime or gallons of paint thinner paid for and evaporated before I realized that oil paint can be thinned by tiny amount of salad oil, and dish soap emulsifies that combination (it doesn't by itself work on modern enamels, you need the salad oil as an intermediate). But since then I've saved both money, time and aggravation, and I have long lasting re-usable brushes when I need them.
btw if you get a drop of paint on your shirt, you can prevent the spot, by applying a drop of salad oil first, rubbing it into the cloth, and than adding dish soap to the mix. Launder as usual, and the paint will disappear. This doesn't work if the paint has dried, obviously. However if you catch it in time, the oil/soap combination will prevent it from drying, and you don't have to launder right away.
If you try to treat a spot of paint with paint thinner, it merely spreads the stain in to the fabric. Oil and dish soap is a far superior treatment.
philf:
--- Quote from: vtsteam on September 23, 2020, 10:20:16 AM ---After you're finished painting, add a small drip of salad oil and a squirt of ordinary liquid dish soap directly onto the brush, and work it in well.
Then rinse with water. Repeat a second time, sling off excess water, shape and let dry. The bristles stay nice and pliable, and the brush is truly clean. The cost is nil, and you always have the ingredients on hand.
--- End quote ---
Vtsteam,
What constitutes salad oil? Will olive oil work?
I have recently taken to wrapping brushes in cling film if I know I'm going to use them in the next day or so. If not I've been binning them! Paint brush cleaner is so expensive and doesn't work anywhere near as well as it used to do. The effective active ingredient was probably something now considered unsafe.
I will give this a try soon.
Cheers.
AdeV:
Salad oil doesn't seem to exist (as a specific, standalone, product) in this country.... one website suggests you can use "the blandest oil you can find" as a substitute (this is for eating purposes, rather than the lesser-known use of paint dispersal :lol:) So presumably, the cheapest veg oil in your nearest big chain supermarket would be ideal.
I'm not sure I've got any enamel paint knocking around, but I do have a bunch of wood to undercoat with some oil-based paint; so rather than breaking out the Turpentine Substitute Substitute - or whatever the heck it is - I might give this a try!
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