I've seen a couple notations mentioning epoxy clean up with vinegar and that it de toxifies the epoxy. Anybody been using vinegar or seen other notations. Thanks
No wonder your garage smells like a salad bar.
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I've seen a couple notations mentioning epoxy clean up with vinegar and that it de toxifies the epoxy. Anybody been using vinegar or seen other notations. Thanks
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Ive used white and brown vinegar and the brown works better, it just makes the resin turn to soft whitish goo and it just slides off skin. It does the same on equipment like scissors. Great stuff.
And, as mentioned before, it adds zest to a salad.
cough cough
I buy big gallons of white vinegar from food4less or similar bulk/discount stores…they are 3$ a gallon…CHEAP
I use a large mixing bucket and pour 1/3 of the gallon in…i use this to dip my gloved hands in to after working…rub them together, rinse and then do a second scrubbing with the gojo…my gloves last forever.
if I get some on bare hands/forearms, I put my hand over the bucket and pour some fresh vinegar from the jug over my hand and catch the runoff in the bucket.
you can dip your tools in the bucket and wipe them down with a paper towel.
it’s 1/6 the cost of solvent and works killer.
I don’t know about ‘de toxifying’, but it does neutralize it, as in stops the chemical reaction. I have used it on some tools before, a roller used in laying up a fin blank for one, and the epoxy turns a milky color and comes right off the tool. It’ll settle out to the bottom of the pan if you use a pan full to soak the tools in.
I’ve never used it on my hands before; I generally use Go-Jo for that, but I would think that it would work the same. And be cheaper than Go-Jo to boot.
I’m not as refined as afoaf - I have a quart container - but I use it mostly the same. I do finish off some tools w/denatured alcohol.
Very interesting. Anybody know if this works well for cleaning paintbrushes? I have always just thrown them out after a single use to avoid contamination.
I have wondered the same thing about brushes. Haven’t gone through the test yet.
Make a panel, hotcoat it, clean that brush with vinegar, then after sanding the test panel gloss it with the cleaned brush. Find out pretty quick if its ‘clean’ I guess.
Have to see when I could try and do that. Be good to not have to waste resources by always throwing out brushes.
Vinegar has many other uses around the home other than salad. It can be used as a window cleaner, it helps keep frost off of your windshiels in the winter, and it can clean the alkalide build up in your shower head to name just a few uses. I even remember a friends grandmother using it as a bug repelent. After all it’s a mild acid. I’d be careful about resuing the brushes for epoxy.
I buy cheap chip brushes by the boxload…they wind up being like 60 cents each or something ridiculous…so I just toss them instead of risking subsequent uses turning my build into one of lillibel’s mystery-contamo-nightmares…
Howzit johan, I have used Go-Jo on my hands, brushes and tools and it seems to do the job just fine even if it is a litle pricier than vinegar. Aloha,Kokua
Smells a bit but seems to neutralize epoxy if it hasn’t gotten to thick.
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I've seen a couple notations mentioning epoxy clean up with vinegar and that it de toxifies the epoxy. Anybody been using vinegar or seen other notations. Thanks
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On a bad day I might get a few drips of resin on my forearm. Nothing a paper towel can't handle. You can wear a long sleeve shirt........
I trust Afoaf....sounds like he has a good thing going on.....
Old chip brushes make good fire wood....just cut off the cured resin part.....
Ray
From afoaf's comments I went right out and got a gallon of white vinegar for $2.!! at Smart and Final Iris. Didn't know at the time brown vinegar might do a better job. It'll be a great relief to lay off the solvents.
thanks on the heads up about using Vinegar.
finish up with metho
I tried the vinegar on the brush (The cheap 3" kind), then DNA, then GoJo… Felt real clean, but the bristles were sort of wacky, it didn’t feel nearly as smooth… Worked OK, but now I get the box-o-brushes from Harbor Freight and chuck 'em… I make up the cost by using vinegar to clean my measuring cups… Ha!