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Re: Material: How can waterproof glue be water cle
By:JohnK
Date: 8/24/2010, 1:28 am

: It's like acrylic paint. If it dries in the brush, you might as
: well throw it away.

: BTW - to change the subject, I think the worse thing to get off
: your hands is that expandable foam in a can. I had to do some
: house work with it and as usual in a rush (no gloves) and got
: some on my hands. The only thing that would work was acetone.

I don't know if it works with foam, but it does with a lot of other things -
A trick I learned in Brazil, where the edible part of a certain fruit is contained in a very sticky substance is to use vegetable oil.
Rub it on your hands, and begin the peeling off of the sticky stuff and it will be coated in oil and will no longer bind to anything.
JohnK

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Malcolm Schweizer -- 8/23/2010, 11:45 am
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Mark Seilis -- 8/25/2010, 12:42 am
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Jay Babina -- 8/23/2010, 12:48 pm
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Brian Nystrom -- 8/24/2010, 10:56 am
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 8/24/2010, 3:05 pm
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Will N to Go -- 8/24/2010, 4:35 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/24/2010, 4:58 pm
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Brian Nystrom -- 8/24/2010, 8:00 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/25/2010, 8:28 am
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Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 8/24/2010, 7:03 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/24/2010, 3:13 pm
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JohnK -- 8/24/2010, 1:28 am
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Bill Hamm -- 8/23/2010, 3:49 pm
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 8/23/2010, 1:55 pm