of gook and klutzes

[Ron Nossaman]

I've always had a problem working with epoxy. I just can't get near the 
stuff without getting it all over me, and with the skin on my hands (front 
feet) being rhinoceros-like, it promptly soaks in to the bone and stays 
there until it wears off. I've proven to be incapable of spreading it and 
forming fillets without eventually resorting to using my fingers, and I 
don't expect for that to change. Gloves are useless to me, since they are 
either like using boxing gloves, or they immediately tear. I've tried 
various prophylactic creams and such, which work fine if I'm not out of the 
stuff when I need it - but I usually am. Today, I tried something a little 
different. Enough hand soap from the pump dispenser at the sink to wet my 
hands, let dry, a dash of powder to take off the tacky feel, and out in the 
shop to make a mess. Mix, thicken, bed and fillet, wipe hands with paper 
towel, scrub and rinse off with hot water, and the epoxy's off. Sons of 
guns - it works.

I've got to do some work on my wife's car next (and I dearly hate playing 
auto mechanic). Maybe I'll get extra lucky and it'll work with grease too.
Ron N