|
Posted by Eigenvector on September 18, 2006, 8:29 pm
>
>> installed new front door here saturday, its really sticky and on my
>> hands today:(
>>
>> I used acetone but perhaps it was too cured...
>>
>> oh well it will pay off in a lifetime of less air infiltration with
>> lower heating bills.
>>
>
>
> Hmmm. I would have thought acetone. Obviously others did too.
>
> I used to use a lot of it on old cars I had in the northeast where the
> salt rats are murder. Cleaned up the unwanted bulges with a razor knife
> and Surform plane it up nicely. Couple of times I put an epoxy filler on
> top. Some worked. Put red Bondo on it once and it melted it. Just figured
> there was acetone in it. Really don't know.
>
> Now I see that red Bondo contains 10-20% by weight styrene. Sounds like
> the same family as the spray foam.
>
> Since OP says it's concrete vs ashphalt, maybe he could burn it with a
> torch. Either make all the sticky stuff melt and he can blot, or might
> dry it crunchy to wire brush off or just make a bigger melted mess.
> Vapors from burning probably toxic as hell though.
>
And probably set my house of fire too. I had enough trouble keeping the
damn cat out of it
| 
Yahoo! 
Google 
Windows Live 
del.icio.us 
digg 
Netscape 
XML Sitemap