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Posted: 3/17/2003 1:37:48 PM EDT
| Has anyone else noticed that they lose a layer of skin on their fingers two days after exposure to Break Free CLP? I guess I'm going to have to start wearing latex gloves. It doesn't hurt or anything just annoying having skin peeling off and snagging on stuff. |
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Yeah I have had that happen before with several oils including Break free after long exposure.Read the Break free MSDS and it will explain things for you. The only oils I have used that did not do that to my hands was Ballistol oil,FP-10 CLP and my current favorite Mil-comm TW-25B and MC-2500 oil. Washing your hands as soon as your done cleaning tends to prevent the problem. Raymond |
| When I was younger I didn't worry so much about chemicals on my skin, but a few years ago I noticed that some of the solvents and cleaners tended to make my hands "tingle" or even burn and I started wearing latex or plastic gloves and washing my hands more frequently, even when just applying oils or lubes. Better safe than sorry. |
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Latex gloves actually provide very limited protection from oils, solvents, etc. If you want a barrier between your skin and an aromatic and/or petroleum compound, you need to find NITRILE gloves. Often they will look like latex gloves, but in colors. Nowadays though you can get blue latex gloves, so you have to look carefully at the box to see what you are getting. The Nitrile gloves also come in thick industrial models for use in blueing and such. Also provide good protection from epoxies and most paints and primers. Found out about them when I started building a kitplane and ran into all sorts of nasty required chemicals. At least one source is www.aircraft-spruce.com, and I believe www.coleparmer.com has them in bulk. Futuristic |
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Quoted: Latex gloves actually provide very limited protection from oils, solvents, etc. If you want a barrier between your skin and an aromatic and/or petroleum compound, you need to find NITRILE gloves. Often they will look like latex gloves, but in colors. Nowadays though you can get blue latex gloves, so you have to look carefully at the box to see what you are getting. The Nitrile gloves also come in thick industrial models for use in blueing and such. Also provide good protection from epoxies and most paints and primers. Found out about them when I started building a kitplane and ran into all sorts of nasty required chemicals. At least one source is www.aircraft-spruce.com, and I believe www.coleparmer.com has them in bulk. Futuristic The ones that I picked up from Lowes are Nitrile and came 15 to a pack.(why the odd #?) [url]www.handcare.net/nitrile.htm[/url] They don't tear or leak and I am able to reuse them multiple times. |
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I remember while I was in some study came down about the harmful contact effects of CLP (which I believe break free advertised on their bottles and their MSDS). TO changed and we had to wear gloves, aprons and eye goggles. Looked like a bunch of highschool students in lab class. With bombs. And F-16s. |
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Interesting topic, I have never had an adverse reaction to CLP. I usually get covered in it from head to toe during a good cleaning session too. After im done, I just wipe all the excess off with a rag and wash my hands. I would imagine that a fair ammount of whatever chemicals are in CLP are taken into the body through the skin on your hands. Wearing gloves certainly couldn't hurt, although that would mean that you have to wear gloves any time you handle your rifle as well. See you on the firing line with your nitrex gloves!! Semper-Fidelis, DD out!! [sniper] |
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