The Case of the Gorilla Hands

[Gary Salisbury]

One more for the seasoned veterans. Gorilla Glue is GREAT but how in the heck do you get it off your hands? I couldn't figure out why my fingers had turned brown. I thought I had washed all of it off but appearantly not. Not even an SOS pad would take it off. Ouch!!!

Now I know why David Marks uses rubber gloves when he works with it on Woodworks.

Gary in San Diego

[Steven Wilson]

It will come off in a couple of weeks - wear gloves

[Jim Baker]

I always wear disposable blue nitrile gloves and still manage to get it on myself. I gave up on using a glue brush and spread it with my finger. I usually end up with it all over my blanks and my work surface. I found that if I lay the blanks on a small sheet of plastic while they dry, the slopped glue won't stick as bad as it did when I put them on an old sheet of cardboard to dry.

[Cecil Arnold]

Try aceone on your hands (I keep a dampened cloth nearby), but be careful, it's highly flammable and you may get a skin reaction if you expose yourself too often.

[John Christiansen]

Carburetor and choke cleaner works for me.

[Gary Salisbury]

Thanks for the input on acetone. It took most of it off. I'm pretty much back to normal now.

Gary in San Diego