Years ago, when I worked in the paint industry, we used to use heavy polyethylene gloves for handling most resins. They seemed to keep things out rather well.
Roger Browne ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 3:40 PM Subject: Re: [aus-soaring] Carbon & epoxy > I have used vinyl gloves with polyester and they offer little if any > protection. The resin appears to penetrate the gloves easily, leaving > your hands 'slimy'. > > Latex gloves do seem to offer protection with polyester, certainly > your hands are still dry and powered from the gloves after handling > polyester resin. Whether there is volatile penetration of the latex > glove or not I do not know. > > Luke dodd. > > ----Original Message----- > >From: Mike Borgelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: [aus-soaring] Carbon & epoxy > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Date: Friday, 22 March 2002 10:21 AM > > > >At 10:53 AM 22/03/02 +1100, you wrote: > >> > >>I believe this is a minor risk to glider pilots... > >> > >> > >> > >>If you have suffient altitude to make this your groundspeed you > are > >>unlikely to hit a solid object (except perhaps the moon!) and if > you are > >>still with the aircraft at the time I am not sure that you would > worry much > >>about the post crash clean up... > >> > >>:-) > >> > >>Good tip about vinyl gloves... > > > >Yeah. Do vinyl gloves protect against polester resins too? Anyone > know? > > > >Mike > >Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments > >ABN 75532924542 > >Box 7474 Toowoomba M.C. > >Queensland 4352 > >Australia > > > >Tel 0746 355 784 > >mob 0428 355 784 > > 0429 355 784 > >fax 0746 358 796 > > > >International > >phone: int'l+ 61 7 46 355 784 > >Cellphone:int'l +61 4 28 355 784 > > int'l +61 4 29 355 784 > >fax : int'l+ 61 7 46 358 796 > > > >email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >website:www.ozemail.com.au/~mborgelt > > > > > >-- > > * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. > > * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message > > * or with "help" in the body of the message for more > information. > > > > > > > -- > * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. > * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message > * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information. > > -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information.
