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What is it about some substances.......

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Rich'sToys

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......that it is impossible to use them without getting it all over yourself, no matter how careful you are?
Two things which come to mind are anti-seize lubricant and roofing tar. The other day I had to put anti-seize on a couple bolts. My container has a built in brush so I didn't have to touch it. Yet within 5 minutes I had it all over both hands and maybe even a spot on my arm! I swear this stuff multiplies and migrates all by itself!
Roofing tar is another one. It seems it is impossible to use this stuff without getting covered from one end to the other.
Has anyone else experienced this, or am I just that much of a slob?
 
Reminds me of this old thread on a different forum.

He was applying bedliner and had to take a leak.

Don't be drinking coffee when you read it, keyboard will get messed up.

Paul
Bedliner removal
 
I remember Harley-Davidson marketed Never-seize in a spray can . Worst messy idea ever. Normal workers get dirty but there is always that one guy with no dirt on him.
 
That thread goes on forever ! lol, I like the guy who said " dont rub vigorously, it will only make the problem bigger " , priceless
 
Powdered sugar on donuts.

On the flip side, when I was in high school, we had a Skelly full service gas station and garage in town. The owner/operator was an alcoholic but a dammed fine mechanic.

And he could run the station and work on vehicles all day while wearing a white Skelly uniform and at the end of the day not have a speck of grease on him.
 
RTV gassket material. I still have stains on my hands a week after using Permatex
Ultra-Blue - LAST FRIDAY!
 
When I was in the Marine Corps me and a friend were eating donuts and got pulled over by a state trooper . He thought the powder on the steering wheel was cocaine. He didn't know what to do when my friend licked it up off his finger.
 
If it is a liquid or a powder does not matter you stand a 99% chance your going ot have it all over Murphy has it in to any body who does any thing. Be it paint or oil or grease or sugar your likely to have it on you or on the floor or on something you did not mean it to be on
 
The roofing tar is about the nastiest! How is it I always manage to sit in it, and not realize it until I'm
in the truck or house?

Another is expanding foam! I can't touch that stuff without it getting somewhere it's not supposed to be!
 
In my area most big hay growers use Freeman 3 tie balers. The bull gears are exposed and to minimize wear you have to dump "bull gear grease" on the gears. Some balers do it automatically. It is a really heavy lube. Guys say it is worse than cat s*** because you can eventually get cat s*** off of you but not bull gear grease
 
Old gas too.
Like 10 year old stuff.
Just touch the carb or tank on something
that's been sitting for a long time and your
hands, clothes, tools and shop will Stink
forever.
 
Gasoila (pipe thread sealant for gas and oil lines). It's absolutely essential stuff but days after you use it, you'll still be finding it between your toes, on your dog, inside your wallet, on the headliner of your truck, stuck
to your Cheerios, etc.
 
Of all things, I seem to really struggle with Diesel. Seems like the entire backhoe has a coat of that stuff on it, and EVERYTIME I use it, or get near it, I end up smelling like diesel? I think 87% of that is paranoia though! :p
 
I wonder how hard they had to edit those replies back then, to keep that thread tasteful and classic.

There are some classics in there, it just matches my funny one to a T. Imply a lot but don't say too much.

Paul
 
Working with a guy trimming doors in a door factory he had to go to the can except he forgot 2 things 1 the doors had fiberglass in them and 2 wash his hands
 
Had a similar problem once pulling weeds in the garden. Didn't realize when I took a short break that some of the weeds I had pulled bare-handed were poison ivy until the next day...
 
The anti-seize brings back memories.
Quite a few years ago, I worked in a shop with about 10 other guys. I was driving a Dodge Ramcharger at the time and it had the spring-loaded ram's head attached to the hood.
There was a guy in the shop who was always pointing the head of the ram off to the side or backwards toward the windshield. I could never catch him, but I knew who it was.
I took the container of anti-seize and I applied a thin layer to the head of the ram. It was the identical color of the chrome of the ram head.
I went to clock out one night and before I walked to the time clock, the head of the ram was facing forward. When I was walking back to the Ramcharger, the ram was facing sideways.
I had all of the guys show me their hands. Sure enough, the culprit had his hand full of anti-seize and he couldn't figure out why. I got the last laugh.
 

A buddy and I call never seize "Arthur" because our late friend Arthur would always have it all over himself when ever he and his brother got done with a repair job.
 
Great Stuff expanding crack sealer. I made the mistake once of using my hands to shove the gooff into a hard-to-get-to crack. Fingers stuck together. It doesn't come off, skin comes off first.
Never learned what solvent would cut it.
 
'Never Seize' is the worst of the worst of the worst. I'm pretty careful when I do stuff - 'Never Seize' gets me every time. Hate that stuff, but , it works good.
 
Put all new bushings in the back suspension of My Focus.

I was under the car, my son was never seizing the bolts and handing them to me.

When I rolled out from under, I just had to laugh...imagine a 12 year old boy with a bottle of
never seize

Fred
 
I am that guy
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(quoted from post at 06:26:53 04/15/16) ......that it is impossible to use them without getting it all over yourself, no matter how careful you are?
Two things which come to mind are anti-seize lubricant and roofing tar. The other day I had to put anti-seize on a couple bolts. My container has a built in brush so I didn't have to touch it. Yet within 5 minutes I had it all over both hands and maybe even a spot on my arm! I swear this stuff multiplies and migrates all by itself!
Roofing tar is another one. It seems it is impossible to use this stuff without getting covered from one end to the other.
Has anyone else experienced this, or am I just that much of a slob?
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Teflon pipe dope....whenever I use it, it winds up all over the place. Also when ever I grease up a piece of equipment later on I find it smeared all over my shirt somewhere...
 

Another good one is airborne soot-steam mixture. When I got back to the station after one particularly stubborn structure fire, my Scott air pack, which has yellow parts, silver, and chrome parts and black parts was all just one shade of of nearly black brown. No one had ever seen one that bad before, the chief just shook his head, and I took a pic of it.
 
Forget the brush that comes with never seize. Use an old
toothbrush. If you leave the top off, in a couple of years it will
be less runny. As for roofing tar you can get it in tubes and use
a caulking gun. You will still get both on you, just not as much.
 
-The dust from a clutch that falls in your eyes when laying on your back adjusting it.
-Expanding spray foam insulation.
-Photocopier toner.
-Sap from a pine tree.
-The stinkier than stink GM gear oil additive for differentials.
-Mustard when trying to eat a burger at an auction sale.
 
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