I know.........I know ......we shouldn't be so messy and we should wear gloves.
But.......we did not wear gloves all the time .....kept pulling them off for different reasons and now we 've got stained and subfloor glue
on our hands.
DH 's hands are worse than mine.
I purchased some citrus something at the builders supply and it works so so.........not doing a great job.
I guess unless we find a solution tonight he'll need to keep his hands in his pockets at church tomorrow. ::)
The orange with pumice is my first choice then on to things such as laquer thinner, acetone or alcohol --probably none of them that are any good for you. After that all fails I just keep my hands in my pockets. :-/
Try a bit of butter and sugar. But if its stained your hands, I'm with Glenn, go for the pocket option.
jonesy ;)
Citrasolvtm gets a lot of stuff off--much better than Orange Guard.
You have tried mechanic's hand cleaner, haven't you? It think they've mostly gone downhill since the 70's, but one with orange and pumice might work about the best.
(Everyone at church would know exactly how my hands had gotten stained--if I could make a good story out of it.)
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I guess unless we find a solution tonight he'll need to keep his hands in his pockets at church tomorrow. ::)
There is a very very old Bill Cosby comic routine about putting tape on your fingers before the collection plate comes around and seeing what sticks to it as it comes by. The glue on DH's hands could be a whole new way of financing a construction project.
(I think the album was Cosby's "Revenge"....the track title escapes me.....it was a very long time ago.)
well if I get a bunch of glue on my hands I sand it off with sandpaper.
If I get my hands stained badly from doing mechanic work (you have no idea how bad they can look sometimes) I scrub them with homemade hand cleaner...Then I do the dishes...Get the water as hot as you can stand it...And a hour of scrubbing dishes in that kind of water will open up every pore and clean it out.
Here is my homemade handcleaner recipee.
Ajax and dish detergent...A good grease cutting kind....Mix just enough dish detergent that the mixture is gritty like the handcleaner with orange in it..
I find the Ajax is much better for cutting grease and really scrubbing the surface of your hands... It is amazing how it can clean!
I discovered it by accident one day...Was at the sink and there was some ajax cleaner there (comet works great too.. old maid) and I mixed it with shampoo...Which worked awesome...I then tried it with the dish detergent and it worked even better.
And yes regular white cream handcleaner is not half as good as it used to be...I guess it is safe for the environment now or something.
Any time i am working with fibreglass body fill or tigerhair and I get the dried caked on buildup on my hands I scrub them with WD-40.. rub them until the resin and plastic starts to crumble and keep spraying on the WD-40 it will clean off an amazing amount of crap!
-Peter
WD-40 removes adhesive, glue, fix-a-flat, bumper stickers, etc.
2000 uses for WD-40:
http://www.twbc.org/wd40.htm
we got asphalt based black horse fence paint on our hands today, couldn't find the citrasolvtm
Starting fluid (ether) worked better than W40 spray. But it hurt every little cut and nick on our hands.
An old bicycle mechanic's pre-mess help: apply dish detergent (palmolive works great) as if it were lotion before working with sticky/dirty stuff. Really saturate your hands with the stuff and let it soak in. It makes cleanup go quicker and protects your hands from drying out while you work. I guess it basically clogs up your pores, where the yuck usually sets in, and since it is soap, it washes out.
We tried the advice on the WD-40 and it worked!
Dh, who is a pastor had a difficult time Sunday trying to minister to the congregation with his hands in his pocket. ;D
His hands were in terrrible condition but a few of the parishners said that they liked a preacher who didn't mind work.
If the glue is still wet, and I want to keep working, I pick up a handfull of dirt and "wash" my hands with it. Works great with sap too. Hands stay dirty, but then my hands are rarely not stained with something anyway (grease, dirt, blood, etc, etc, etc)