Re: [RCSE] adhesion and adhesives: long and boring

2002-08-01 Thread J.P. Morere
All this talk about this glove is good for this, but not for that makes me think of one solution that seems good for all, but a real nuisance. Double glove, with Vinyl glove on the inside to protect you, and Latex gloves on the outside to protect the materials and adhesives being used.

Re: [RCSE] adhesion and adhesives: long and boring

2002-08-01 Thread Lincoln Ross
I double glove with polyethylene (I thing that's what they are) gloves inside latex. THe polyethylene gloves are (were?) available from Lab Safety Supply in a hand shaped dispenser. Cheap! Of course that's what I use building boats. Maybe that's not up to aviation standards. Originally adopted to

Re: [RCSE] adhesion and adhesives: long and boring: part II

2002-07-31 Thread Bill Johns
At 04:21 PM 7/31/2002 -0400, Mark Holm wrote: Hi Bill, Great discussion of gluing from someome who obviously was paying attention in Surface Chemistry class. I teach the Surface Chemistry class.;-) I have one little quibble / bit of advice from someone who used to take apart PVC for a

Re: [RCSE] adhesion and adhesives: long and boring

2002-07-31 Thread Mark Holm
Don Stackhouse wrote: According to the manufacturers of epoxy (specifically the tech support folks at Hexcel), the toxic chemicals in most epoxies will go right through latex. They emphatically told me you should NOT use latex gloves when working with epoxy, that you should use vinyl,