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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: BlueJ1 on August 23, 2006, 06:24:13 PM
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Spent the day patching and taring the driveway. Got a good deal on my hands. Ive tried it all...
-Soap
-gasoline
-Lava Soap
Its still there...any suggestions?
EDIT: Before some tardy-dar says wear gloves I would like to point out I was wearing gloves.
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Goo-gone in a spray bottle. Works great.
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well u can do it the redneck way....well 2 ways actually...1 is to get someone to peel off a little bit to get a grip on it then pull...or get a knife and have fun
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Laquer Thinner or MEK (Methyl Ethyl Ketone)
Down side is both are hard core carcinogens.
Either way, Laquer Thinner is the lesser of the evils (MEK is freaking bad news) and is so great it even removes the Purple PVC Primer I have been using all day to put up the new airlines in the new shop!
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If you cant find anything to get rid of the tar, amputation would work. :p
Just kidding. :D Might try an enzyme cleaner. I cleaned carpets for about a year one time. An enzyme cleaner took tar out of a carpet when nothing else I had available would.
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Im gona let my hands heal a day or two from the lava soap before I try another chemical.
Thanks guys. Il run to the store and try some of those. :aok
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Well normally I would say Gojo
But you probably already let it get hard at this point and it will now probably be hard to remove even with GOJO.
Sooo your choices are
Goof off
Goo gone
Paint thinnners/Turpentine
Laquer thinner.
Gasoline.
Nne of which are particularly good for you (But it will remove the tar) so follow up with a good wash with soap and plenty of waterafterwords
Particularly if you go the gasoline route
That is, unless you enjoy peeling skin.
Or you can scrub off as much as you can, or till your skin turns so raw you just give up.
then simply wear it off.
Some oil based Stains and paints stain my hands so bad that no matter what I do I end up having to wear the restof the stain off.
Usually completly gone in a couple days
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The gasoline in combination with lava soap got rid of most of it. It still remains in places I can scrub very well without causing bleeding. I was gona use paint thinner until I realized the kind that comes in the little jars for painting models was the only kind I had.
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Originally posted by BlueJ1
Im gona let my hands heal a day or two from the lava soap before I try another chemical.
Thanks guys. Il run to the store and try some of those. :aok
Dont use Lava soap. Coulda prediced the outcome.
Get yourself a small can of GoJo and keep it in the garage.
Works great on that kinda stuff provided you dont let it (the tar) set
(http://media.gojo.com/product_group_photo/GO_Orgl_Fml_Hd_Cln_A_wlr.jpg)
GoJo comes in a jell like form
when you use it. Dont wet your hands first. Nor wash it off with water.
Take a glob out and run it over your hands working it in.
Use a small soft scrub brush to scrub the difficult areas.
Wipe off with an old towel or paper towels.
If your hands are clean. then wash with regular soap and water afterwards.
If not. Repeat
GoJo also has Lanolin in it which makes your hands soft and more wife friendly
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kerosine works with a little bit of palmolive.
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Dont use Lava soap. Coulda prediced the outcome.
Get yourself a small can of GoJo and keep it in the garage.
Works great on that kinda stuff provided you dont let it (the tar) set
(http://media.gojo.com/product_group_photo/GO_Orgl_Fml_Hd_Cln_A_wlr.jpg)
GoJo comes in a jell like form
when you use it. Dont wet your hands first. Nor wash it off with water.
Take a glob out and run it over your hands working it in.
Use a small soft scrub brush to scrub the difficult areas.
Wipe off with an old towel or paper towels.
If your hands are clean. then wash with regular soap and water afterwards.
If not. Repeat
GoJo also has Lanolin in it which makes your hands soft and more wife friendly
I saw the same stuff once in a garage. It worked amazing. But the outside was so dirty I couldnt read the label. The guy who owned the garage called it agent oarnge.
Now I know! Thankyou.
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Originally posted by BlueJ1
I saw the same stuff once in a garage. It worked amazing. But the outside was so dirty I couldnt read the label. The guy who owned the garage called it agent oarnge.
Now I know! Thankyou.
It was so dirty because it works so well ;)
your welcome.
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Just use baby oil or mineral oil, much better for your hands and non explosive, if those don't do a good enough job then an orange based cleaner would be the best next step.
I have surfed for 45 years, dealt with So.Cal tar alot.
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In roofing we use "Orange cleaner". It's a liquid that comes in a 1 gal blue can, or in a spray bottle.
Get it from your local roofing supply company, probably from home depot too.
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Ugh..home depot. They took the fun out of going to a hardware store and being a guy thing. Now its a female driving a SUV kinda thing.
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Originally posted by BlueJ1
Ugh..home depot. They took the fun out of going to a hardware store and being a guy thing. Now its a female driving a SUV kinda thing.
I still use my local Harware store when I can.
Got to be real friendly with the owner.
One day Im in there talking ot him and looking around while having a key made up and said to him
"Yanno I really hate this store"
Concerned he looked at me and asked why
so I told him
"You have all kinds of cool stuff in here I would really love to have, yet have abolutely no use for" LOL
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The local store I go to the guy must be older then dust. But he has to be the nicest man in the world. It is impossible to find anything in his store. All you have to do is ask him where something is and he'll take you to it. Take the dust off. And charge you half the price.
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Bj use Wd40 if ya know what it is. Its a rust penetrater and lube its works on alot of things. Most homes have them amd im sure you dad has it around the house. I use it all the time for clean up on hands from tar glue ect. GL:D
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Time
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the cheapest and easiest way is to wash you hands with some sand. spend a few minutes rubbing desert or beach snad hard all over the tar and it will start to break up, then keep using the sand but add water and regular soap to clean and finish it off.
you will lose a few layers of skin from the affected body part though, and if you dont it wont work too good.
but damn dont go and buy products that cost too much and are less effective than some find dry sand or corse dry soil.
i stepped in a slap of tar on a beach in france an the stuff just spreads onto anything you tyry to wash it with, and the original patch on my foot spread out twice as big and just as dark black.
sand worked a treat.
failing that use a brilo pad or a moderate sized electric sander.
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Originally posted by Wax
Bj use Wd40 if ya know what it is. Its a rust penetrater and lube its works on alot of things. Most homes have them amd im sure you dad has it around the house. I use it all the time for clean up on hands from tar glue ect. GL:D
Yes sir, I know what wd40 is. I never thought of that. Makes sense. I'll try that tomorrow. Thankyou.
Batfink,
Thats the samething as lava soap. If you've never heard of it its soap with I believe pumice or sand in it. Great for getting most anything off your hands. And a layer or two of skin.
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Pine-Sol and a brush. Never use gasoline for stuff like that. Its evil stuff.
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When I hauled asphault I was always getting covered in the stuff. GoJo works good, so does diesel. GoJo smells better.
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Originally posted by rpm
When I hauled asphault I was always getting covered in the stuff. GoJo works good, so does diesel. GoJo smells better.
Agreed.
But Deisel will also bring the shine back to a dull car finish ;)
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So, how did the WD40 work? That would have been my suggestion. Sorry I am late. I have used WD40 on almost everything first. Gum remover, Stain remover, Lubricant, Rust preventer, Engine cleaner, Auto Detail restorer/beautifier, Flame accelerant, Deodorizer, Body wash, Cure for Cancer, and most important, World Peace enabler.
:D
Great stuff.
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Originally posted by TracerX
So, how did the WD40 work? That would have been my suggestion. Sorry I am late. I have used WD40 on almost everything first. Gum remover, Stain remover, Lubricant, Rust preventer, Engine cleaner, Auto Detail restorer/beautifier, Flame accelerant, Deodorizer, Body wash, Cure for Cancer, and most important, World Peace enabler.
:D
Great stuff.
I used it this morning. Worked real well. But I went to the store and got some Gojo. I used that after I got done today. Took off yesterdays and todays junk.