RE: Epoxy cleaner?

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From:jim <jim@proscitech.com.au>
To:"'J.Nailon@mailbox.uq.edu.au'" <J.Nailon@mailbox.uq.edu.au>, Connie McManus <conmac@cc.usu.edu>
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John Nailon is making a very good argument for using gloves or working very 
cleanly.
All epoxies I understand are "somewhat" carcinogenic. The much quoted John 
Luft, years ago advised me that photographic fixer (sodium thiosulphate) 
solution, chemically changed epoxies so they would not be carcinogenic. If he 
was right, then first washing any body parts contaminated by epoxy resin in 
photographic fixer should avert the worse. Those fixers do not dissolve or 
clean epoxies.
Cheers
Jim Darley
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On Thursday, June 15, 2000 11:36 AM, John Nailon 
[SMTP:mmjnailo@dingo.cc.uq.edu.au] wrote:
>
> G'day folks,
> Be very wary of any Good Epoxy Solvent, do not use it to clean epoxy off
> your skin. Anything that is a good solvent for epoxy will probably be a
> good solvent for the oils and lipids in/on your skin. These oils and
> lipids are your protection against epoxy resins entering your body.
> Remember, all epoxy resins at carcinogenic, soap and water are probably
> the safest agents to remove epoxies from your skin.
> Regards
> JVN
>
> Connie McManus wrote:
> >
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> > At 06:09 PM 06/13/2000 -0700, Don Hammer wrote:
> > >Stuff is cheap too and if there is any left after the zillions of home
> > >uses,
> > >great on salads!!!!
> >
> > yeah, especially the used stuff........ eeeeuewwwwwwww!  *G*
> >
> > connie m
> > >
> > >Don Hammer, Retired Guy
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: Connie McManus <conmac@cc.usu.edu>
> > >To: Tamara Howard <howard@cshl.org>; Microscopy Listserver
> > ><Microscopy@sparc5.microscopy.com>; Histology listserver
> > ><histonet@pathology.swmed.edu>
> > >Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 2:29 PM
> > >Subject: Re: Epoxy cleaner?
> > >
> > >
> > >> My husband uses epoxy on a sailboat he's building.  He cleans everything
> > >> up... hands, spills, etc... with plain old vinegar.  We go through a LOT
> > >of
> > >> vinegar.  If it's dried, then soak acetone on it until it softens, then
> > >use
> > >> vinegar (or 5% acetic acid) to mop up the residues.
> > >>
> > >> connie m
> > >>
> > >> At 10:31 AM 06/13/2000 -0400, Tamara Howard wrote:
> > >> >Back in the olden days, when BioRad sold microscopy supplies, they had
> > >> >an
> > >> >epoxy cleaner (to remove epoxies from hands, benches, etc., not made
> > >> >from
> > >> >epoxies). It was blue gunk in a little jar. Does anyone know what
> > >happened
> > >> >to this stuff? Or have an alternate?
> > >> >
> > >> >I've just been digging through catalogues and Ted Pella sells a liquid
> > >> >cleaner - any experience with it?
> > >> >
> > >> >Thanks!
> > >> >
> > >> >Tamara Howard
> > >> >CSHL
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> Connie McManus
> > >> Veterinary Diagnostics Lab
> > >> Utah State University
> > >> Logan, UT
> > >> USA
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > Connie McManus
> > Veterinary Diagnostics Lab
> > Utah State University
> > Logan, UT
> > USA
>
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