Fibre glass? How do you clean your tools after working with fibre glass resin?

Answer 1

Use acetone. It's expensive though and difficult to obtain in useful quantities. I go to boatyard workshops with an empty plastic white spirit container and scrounge a top-up for a few quid from their large drums.

Chandlery prices are completely prohibitive (£12 / 14 for a litre!)

Get a small to medium sized plastic bucket with a sealable lid and leave your tools in the acetone for a while, in the bucket. Then use a 2 inch resin brush to clean them up. It is extremely volatile so flashes off at an alarming rate. So put the lid on tightly as soon as you have removed your tools from it. It is best to remove them fairly soon, wipe them off with a clean cloth and store them clean and dry, because storing them permanently in the acetone eventually leads to them becoming coated with a dirty film of cured, thinned resin residue. Yuk!

Clean tools coated with fillers equally well as neat resin.

Keep and use it in an open, well ventilated place as the vapours are also heavier than air and can form a hazardous (explosive) build up in confined spaces such as boat cabins, bilges etc.

Acetone also works equally well for wood-epoxy resins.

When it becomes dirty and syrupy in the bucket, dispose of it safely - not down drains, on fires etc. Dig a small hole in sand / soil, pour it in then cover it up with the spoil. Then refresh with new from the container.

Answer 2

As long as you stay on top of it, acetone works fine. If you wait too long, and the resin kicks off, then use a heat gun to soften it up, and scrape the tools gently. It will come right off. Make sure that you don't scratch the tools when you clean them, gnarled tools are a detriment to ease of productivity. Always scrape with something SOFTER than the tool, to avoid scratching it. Also, use a respirator when doing this with a heat gun, the fumes are toxic.

Answer 3

I am itching to tell you? I prefer to use disposable painters trays cheep plastic spatulas and even Styrofoam plates. You have to grind that stuff off after it hardens. Start scratching now. Here is a tip if you get glass in your pores hot as you can stand shower then repeated cold as you can stand works your shin pores and the irritation of glass fiber out.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Acetone, it is very flamable, and it evaporates instantly

This will take all the resin and glass off the tools and your hands. (COVER CUTS) - CUZ THIS STUFF BURNS.

Answer 6

soak them in acetone

Answer 7

aceatone and use cheap tools.cause u will lose some.