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Re: Gloves for acetone? Latex, nitrile, vinyl????
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 7/9/2010, 1:30 am
In Response To: Gloves for acetone? Latex, nitrile, vinyl???? (Doug S)

: 2 of the pages on the kayak wiki contradict each other:

: Epoxy -
: http://www.kayakforum.com/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/guille/wiki.pl?Epoxy
: Says, "Since acetone is being used, be especially careful to
: use vinyl gloves (see Protective Gloves) (not latex which is
: porous to acetone).."

: Protective Gloves -
: http://www.kayakforum.com/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/guille/wiki.pl?Protective_Gloves
: For "Excellent For" has "Acetone" under Latex
: and Nitrile but not vinyl.

: --

: Reading some of the past posts - it sounds like the acetone is
: going to eat just about anything I'm wearing, but what holds up
: the best?

: Thanks!

: -Doug

Double gloves, disposable nitrile gloves under heavy natural rubber gloves. Acetone does nasty things to you, can be explosive too, use with excess ventilation.

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Epoxy: 2 bad batches, incorrect ratios
Doug S -- 7/7/2010, 10:33 am
Re: Epoxy: 2 bad batches, incorrect ratios
Larry C. -- 7/18/2010, 6:59 pm
Gloves for acetone? Latex, nitrile, vinyl????
Doug S -- 7/8/2010, 9:00 pm
Re: Gloves for acetone? Latex, nitrile, vinyl????
ken -- 9/2/2010, 1:30 pm
Re: Gloves for acetone? Latex, nitrile, vinyl????
Robert N Pruden -- 7/13/2010, 2:02 am
Re: Gloves for acetone? Latex, nitrile, vinyl????
Bill Hamm -- 7/13/2010, 8:42 am
Re: Gloves for acetone? Latex, nitrile, vinyl????
Al Edie -- 9/1/2010, 6:47 pm
Re: Gloves for acetone? Latex, nitrile, vinyl????
Bill Hamm -- 9/2/2010, 2:02 am
Re: Gloves for acetone? Latex, nitrile, vinyl????
Mike Bielski -- 9/2/2010, 12:59 am
Re: Gloves for acetone? Latex, nitrile, vinyl????
Donovan -- 9/1/2010, 9:12 pm
Re: Gloves for acetone? Latex, nitrile, vinyl????
Will N To Go -- 9/1/2010, 8:24 pm
Re: Gloves for acetone? Latex, nitrile, vinyl????
Bill Hamm -- 7/9/2010, 1:30 am
Re: Gloves for acetone? Latex, nitrile, vinyl????
Mike Savage -- 7/9/2010, 4:48 am
Re: Gloves for acetone? Latex, nitrile, vinyl????
Bill Hamm -- 7/9/2010, 1:32 am
Re: Gloves for acetone? Latex, nitrile, vinyl????
Bill Hamm -- 7/9/2010, 1:34 am
Re: Gloves for acetone? Latex, nitrile, vinyl????
JohnK -- 7/8/2010, 9:05 pm
Re: Gloves for acetone? Latex, nitrile, vinyl????
Mike Hanks -- 7/8/2010, 11:54 pm
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Doug S -- 7/7/2010, 11:37 am
Re: How about them archives - answers
Scott B -- 7/17/2010, 10:55 pm
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Will N to Go -- 7/15/2010, 12:15 am
Re: How about them archives - answers
Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 7/15/2010, 10:16 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/16/2010, 1:33 am
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Jay Babina -- 7/8/2010, 8:13 am
Re: Epoxy: 2 bad batches, incorrect ratios
Bill Hamm -- 7/7/2010, 11:28 am
Re: Epoxy: 2 bad batches, incorrect ratios
kirk -- 7/7/2010, 6:22 pm
Re: Epoxy: 2 bad batches, incorrect ratios
Doug S -- 7/8/2010, 7:57 am
Re: Epoxy: 2 bad batches, incorrect ratios
Clayton Plunkett -- 7/8/2010, 6:01 pm
Re: Epoxy: 2 bad batches, incorrect ratios
Doug S -- 7/8/2010, 8:51 pm
Re: Epoxy: 2 bad batches, incorrect ratios
Bill Hamm -- 7/9/2010, 1:27 am
Re: Epoxy: 2 bad batches, incorrect ratios
Bill Hamm -- 7/7/2010, 11:23 am
Re: Epoxy: 2 bad batches, incorrect ratios
Doug S -- 7/7/2010, 11:39 am
Re: Epoxy: 2 bad batches, incorrect ratios
Bill Hamm -- 7/7/2010, 12:45 pm
Re: Epoxy: 2 bad batches, incorrect ratios
Doug S -- 7/7/2010, 2:08 pm
Re: Epoxy: 2 bad batches, incorrect ratios
Bill Hamm -- 7/8/2010, 2:31 am