Acertone, Gloves? OOps!!
No – check the Funny Tool Stories thread, it’s pretty good stuff. Everybody (more or less) admits to their mistakes here, especially the humorous ones. They can make for good stories…
I have a good ‘solvent story’. My first glass job I was so excited and anxious. I went to clean off my sticky hands with a little acetone but when I tipped the can into my hands, my acetone was thick and gooey and blue - then it registered - this is the resin can! DOH! Kind of the opposite effect I was hoping to get in cleaning my hands…
Nah, man, that wasn’t on you, that’s one of the ‘whoopsies’ I’ve seen around glassing. Others, like using a propane heater in your workshop with open cans of acetone around, well, they’re not nearly as funny. You wind up with no eyebrows and no shop, smelling vaguely like a NASA test site.
Don’t even think for a minute that they’re stupid questions. The ones that don’t get asked are the stupid ones.
One guy emailed me about a ding fix:“My board had some dings and water damage in the nose. So, I cut the first two feet off the board with a skilsaw. What do I do now??”
See? The questions he didn’t ask, like maybe “Is it a good idea to amputate the nose of a board with a saw instead of fixing it some other way??” for starters, would have kept him from a helluva lot of work and what turned out kinda marginal at the end.
Keep asking
doc…
I wanna know about the second time you learned that glassing in flip flops is a bad idea.
I read a tip here a while back about splitting your resin into two buckets when working on a big board. Seemed like a really good idea – until I kicked over the second bucket of catalyzed resin, that I had cleverly put right underfoot while laminating with the first bucket-full…
well…lets just say that by the time the hair on my toes grows back, my memory fades and it’s time to be stupid again.
One of those deals: the resin is going off and you feel that drip, drip, drip on your feet, no time to put on shoes, clean off feet, etc before the resin’s past it, and you already started to do the glass…
I hate rush repair jobs.
I think the worse thing I have seen was when my son was doing multiple fills on ding boards and in a rush he stuck the wrong end of the popsicle stick he was using as a stir rod in his mouth. Then in a “bright idea” moment he decided that the only way he could get the resin out of his mouth was to rinse it out with acetone! He followed that up with mouth fulls of dry oatmeal thinking this would absorb any residuals. By this time I was rolling! We now have poison control on the speed dial in the shop!