Spray foam insanity

[Mander]

Every time I decide to use spray foam I convince myself that I won't need plastic gloves. Every time I am wrong.

Why do I do this to myself? Now to wait for the stickiness to go away so I can peel it off...

 

[martygturner]

Buy some spray foam cleaner next time you buy a tin of foam or raid your partners or your own nail polish remover. Acetone is great stuff.

 

[Mander]

I tried the straight acetone nail polish remover and it seemed to have zero effect.

It's mostly cured by now so I was able to peel most of it off. Cleaning up the bits where it's oozed out might be a different story, but I expect a knife will do it.

Just laughing at myself really. I seem to do this every time with some substance or other.

 

[cdbe]

The good thing, having experienced it myself only this week, is that thin coating on your hands makes your hair feel really shiny when you wash it. The bad thing is you're never quite sure whether it's foam or skin you're peeling off.

 

[Mander]

It was very easy to scrape off in the end. I suppose that's one advantage of using gloss paint on the skirting boards by mistake.

 

[foxhole]

Can of lighter fuel from £ shop , dissolves foam with ease . Dripped into used can head will keep it clean for further use if not emptied on first use .

 

[camerart]

Hi,
Beware, of the type of foam you're using. I did the same think last week. After I'd sprayed, I took one glove of and got one drip on my finger, that I wiped off. Later in the bath it started burning.
C

 

[morqthana]

A friend of mine once built a canoe... (email fwd:)

Whitewater and Touring

www.ukriversguidebook.co.uk

 

[camerart]

A friend of mine once built a canoe... (email fwd:)

Whitewater and Touring

www.ukriversguidebook.co.uk

Hi M,
In one sense as funny as Frank Spencer, but in another there are quite a few lessons there.
C

 

[opps]

Every time I decide to use spray foam I convince myself that I won't need plastic gloves. Every time I am wrong.

Why do I do this to myself? Now to wait for the stickiness to go away so I can peel it off...

If you get it on your hands, run water over them. It accelerates the curing time. Decorators' wipes will remove most of the wet foam, but as previously mentioned, acetone based gun cleaner will work immediately. Some nail acetone products have a low percentage of acetone.

I tend to use a proper gun. It enables you adjust the flow rate and make it more manageable.

I seldom wear gloves when using a gun. A reasonable gun will cost about £20+ something. I often leave the foam cartridge attached for months.

 

[opps]

A friend of mine once built a canoe... (email fwd:)

Whitewater and Touring

www.ukriversguidebook.co.uk

Regular PU foam in cans is a one part product, not a two part product. It is not exothermic. It uses moisture to cure and not heat (unlike epoxy resins and PU fillers). I have no idea what product was supposedly used in your link.

 

[hllns]

Regular PU foam in cans is a one part product, not a two part product. It is not exothermic. It uses moisture to cure and not heat (unlike epoxy resins and PU fillers). I have no idea what product was supposedly used in your link.

It's not exothermic, it's actually slightly endothermic, which portion of this hatch do you think had some foam put in the void between the two sides?

 

[Exedon]

My son (he's a shopfitter) Had to do a emergency stop in his van. Foam gun flew can leaking foam, they managed to smother it with a old towel and dumped in a freshly emptied bin .
On way home saw bin pink foam flowed over the top and almost covering bin

 

[opps]

My son (he's a shopfitter) Had to do a emergency stop in his van. Foam gun flew can leaking foam, they managed to smother it with a old towel and dumped in a freshly emptied bin .
On way home saw bin pink foam flowed over the top and almost covering bin

Yeah, I have managed to fill a hole bin bag when a can has gone bonkers.