Removing that foam stuff from your hands

[The Grebe]

Mr. Numb Nutz here went and got some of that spray foam stuff on my hands. Was using it to plug up some holes that a woodpecker made in a neighbors house. By the time I got down off the ladder to wipe it off, it was already dried, or just about dried!

In the past, I've always been able to find something that would get something else off my hands, so I wasn't to worried about it....should have read the directions before I went the budinski route!

It says if it is still wet acetone will do the trick....once dried, nothing will work and it has to wear off....I hope this isn't the case?

So far I have tried acetone (Nail polish remover), white gas, lava soap, carburator cleaner, starting fluide, goo gone and some stuff for getting tar and bugs off the vehicle...nothing seems to work? Anybody have anymore ideas?

[TooTallTom]

Try olive oil. No joke, my dad uses that to remove glue residue from any electronics he buys. If it doesn't work, there's really no harm done.

Let us know how it turns out, will you?

[PurpleFloyd]

Mineral spirits works until it cures. After that,well, exfoliation is always an option.

[The Grebe]

I just got done trying the olive oil....even let the first application sink in for awhile and then added a second application and rubbed it in real good....nada. I used gas to get the olive oil off, still nothing! Users beware, don't make the bone headed mistake I did, wear gloves!

[The Grebe]

Next comes the belt sander!

[hawgchaser]

Same as curing a cold. Get rest; drink fluids; wait a week or so.

The foam tool cleaner (acetone) works before it cures. After that, it mostly wears off.

[The Grebe]

I've tried everything else, my last attempt will be with peanut butter, see if there is any improvement? Hands look friggen terrible.

[bigsmallie]

lacquer thinner will take it right off...

[The Grebe]

Well, I tried the peanut butter and washed it off with Dawn dish soap the first time and then Lava again the second time....I'll take your advice and look for the lacquer thinner next! Aside from the ground in foam, this is the cleanest my hands have been in my whole life!

[The Grebe]

Couldn't find any lacquer thinner, tried mineral spirits...nada.

[pureinsanity]

Knife or razor blade. That is what I use to get anything and everything off my hands. I am assuming since you are a DIY'er you have some "tough" hands. Cut the stuff off or use your wife's little foot block she has in the shower that she uses to scrub her feet. that will work good. Just don't let her see you doing it

[pureinsanity]

Oh and to stop the stickiness of your hands cover them in flour

[DANR]

I did the same thing a couple of weeks ago. Find a fresh emery board and sand it off.

Good luck

Dan

[The Grebe]

I didn't go the razor blade route, but I did discover something. I was using my pocket knife to scrape the stuff off my fingernails and some of the bigger stuff off my hands and took that about as far as it would go.

My wife and I went shopping for some piddly stuff and I bought a paddlelock. You know how they come in the plastic cases.....anyways, we were standing in the check out line and I was fiddling with the case, scraping it on my fingers and I'll be danged if that sharp plastic edge wasn't taking some of that stuff off! And without the threat of cutting myself to! I worked it for what it was worth and between it,the work I do with my hands and natural break down, little by little it's comming off. I should be good to go by the end of next week.

[Bear55]

Same thing happened to me once, I used gas right away and got most of it off, the rest just had to wear off or be scraped off. Fun stuff!

[#fishhunt#]

I use my palm sander with fine grit to get off as much as I can. Then I go to the other chemicals.

[ishy]

Green Scotch Brite pad. Works like a dream...

[RebelSS]

That's EXACTLY why I have a bag of latex gloves in the garage......

[Bonstrosity]

I used to work for a company installing windows and you only have to get that stuff on you once and you'll learn to be careful. My wife had one of these things that is a sponge stone that is used to scrape dead skin off your feet. She said it is used when you get pedicures, It helped but there were still parts that I just had to wait it out.

[pureinsanity]

I used to work for a company installing windows and you only have to get that stuff on you once and you'll learn to be careful. My wife had one of these things that is a sponge stone that is used to scrape dead skin off your feet. She said it is used when you get pedicures, It helped but there were still parts that I just had to wait it out.

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[Steve Foss]

Try Goo Gone.

[leech~~]

Try Gumout carb spray, that's what I always use when getting this stuff all over!

[fishdog]

my first time i eventualy chewed it all off after using everything,and anything I also tryed oven cleaner;didnt work. the only chemicals that kinda worked were spray on paint stripper/peeler followed by lacquer thinner.The best by far was a few disposable razors and lacquer thinner and dry towel to rubb off the layers of skin. Man if that stuff got anyplace hairy or unreachable (private places),it would be a long long lesson to learn.READ DIRECTIONS BEFORE Use.

P.S.

Ill never forget the first time i met my freinds mom i was in chewing that [PoorWordUsage] off my palm and she thought i was eating my hand, saying "Nick you beter stop him before he eats his hand off"