of gook and klutzes

[Farrell]

Today was my first day in a week without an epoxied eyebrow. Yes, it can be a challenge.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@cox.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 3:24 PM
Subject: of gook and klutzes


> 
> 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
> 
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