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Purchase a material called "debonder" I have checked at Wal-Mart and they do not carry it. Try towers..Fred123

acetone or nail polish remover (basically same thing)

Acetone works for me.

I'm not sure what the solvent is in nail polish remover, but I've heard that it works, too.

Marty

Ted shuffled out of his cave and grunted these great (and sometimes not so great) words of knowledge:

Keep a sealed container of acetone handy. When you glue your fingers together, take the cover off and put your fingers in the acetone. In a few seconds your fingers will be "unglued".

Acetone is the main ingredient in debonder and many nail polish removers.

That being said, acetone is not good for you. Keep your exposure to a minimum.

It has to be acetome, that and nitromethane are the only reliable debonders. However, its easy enough to rip the skin off one finger to separate it from the other. Only hurts a LITTLE bit.

I assume you mean acetoNe. :) True, it doesn't hurt much, but then you bleed all over your wood and plans. Messy. Have that sealing iron hot and ready to cauterize the raw flesh!

Dr1

Nah. CA does that perfectly. Glue a bit of tissue over the end.

Any builder that can't use a #10 X-Acto to separate bonded skin without leaving a blood trail is a novice. :o)

Is that a better blade for debonding skin. I always use a #11. :-)

How about an axe? If your 'working-hand' is secured by CA, a good friend for swinging the axe comes in handy :-)

JS

Guys, I keep reading about sticking fingers into acetone, or pouring it on fingers, etc. You should know that acetone is a strong liver poison which is reaily absorbed through the skin. I would urge you to wear latex gloves when working with CA or with epoxy. There are a number of troublesome chemicals we use inour hobby,and we should respect them, IMHO Thanks for "listening". TNgunner

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I thought it interesting that some of the long time C/L flyers are coming down with cancer in their old age. Seems they were using high nitro levels and handling that stuff has caught up, or so I heard.

- HPT

Gee, old people coming down with cancer...I know plenty of old people that came down with cancer and they never handled nitro.

Then you read the ingredients in finger nail polish remover. Acetone... Not in pure form but there nonetheless.

John VB

I find all the alarmist attitudes about the chemicals we use to be rather amusing. Cluck-Cluck the Sky is Falling!!!

I agree that it is good to limit your exposure to the bad stuff, but you CAN go overboard. Acetone has been in nail polish removers for 50 years that I know of. Nitro has been used in the printing world for a long time as well. Some really bad stuff has been removed from general use such as toluene and a lot more people know the dangers of MEK.

"Paul McIntosh" wrote in news:421056ab$0$49567$ snipped-for-privacy@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net:

Mebbe so, but it helps keep the lawyers employed.

Reminds me, then I played with lead soldiers as a kid and used compressed air to blow out brake linings and drums back in the late 60's through '70s. Those were hobby interests though and a little different than someone who does it day in and day out.

My father used to make lead soldiers with the lead molds (I still have the molds), sold at the elementary school PTA bazaar in little bags of 5 or 6 inside for $0.10 or $0.15 back in the early '60s.

In sort of an ignorant twisted way, I guess you could say playing with HAZMAT was fun. I don't know if such would be a contributor to cancer.

Impression I get is that some get cancer because of poor health or habbits or both. Hence why I keep working out.

- HPT