Enamel doesnt wash off skin? I dont think so!

[Matthew_T]

I had a bit of an accident today whilst touching up my bike frame. I was using enamel and was putting the second coat on. Unfortunately, I was concentrating too hard on doing a good job when I realised that I had poured the whole pot all over my hand.
I quickly put everything down and began a rescue operation on my hand. I used a tissue to get the majority of it and then used hot water and washing up liquid to get the rest off.

I luckily did a good job and then returned to finishing things off. I only have a few blobs left on me which will come off in the next few washes and showers.

 

[potsy]

Got a feeling this thread is going to be like watching paint dry

 

[asterix]

I knocked over my wheelbarrow full of mortar. Fortunately I had a shovel with me..

The rest is history.

 

[Crackle]

You should worry. I've got a black lab with a gloss white tail at the moment and that won't come off!

 

[Globalti]

Matt, you do lead a colourful life, don't you?

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Wasting good paint like that, you should be ashamed. It's bloomin' expensive stuff now too - used to be 45p for a small tin when I was into model railways.

It'll come off eventually so dunna worry.

 

[Matthew_T]

Wasting good paint like that, you should be ashamed. It's bloomin' expensive stuff now too - used to be 45p for a small tin when I was into model railways.

Well my dad said that a small pot would have cost 7p when he was a kid. It was #1.60 from the model train shop I got it from. I was paying for fairly good service too though.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Matt, you do lead a colourful life, don't you?

Yes, but what colour?

 

[Matthew_T]

Yes, but what colour?

Black unfortunately. This evening I got an email from my bike manufacturer who said that they didnt supply or even produce the paint anymore. They did supply me with the code and said that I would be lucky if I could find it anywhere.
The plain black gloss that I used has come out fine though. Got to put the bike back together tomorrow as I repainted the front wheel as well (it was discoloured and 4/5 years old).

 

[vernon]

I only have a few blobs left on me which will come off in the next few washes and showers.

Nitromors will get rid of those last few blobs.

 

[Globalti]

Matt, at least you got it on yourself. When I was 15 we moved into a new house and my parents got the whole house carpeted in the same pale green throughout. A couple of weeks later I was painting a model and I tipped an entire tin of Humbrol silver on the carpet. I knew it would be hopeless trying to clean it up so I went and got a sharp Stanley knife and some sticky tape and cut a patch of carpet from some spare we had. Then, heart in mouth, I cut a square around the blob of paint and removed it, carefully fitted the sticky tape under the hole and then, taking care to get the direction of the nap right as I'd learned from the carpet fitters, I trimmed the patch slightly larger than the hole and fitted it in, hammering it down and mussing up the pile to get it to blend in. In the following eight years my Mum never spotted the repair, even when she hoovered the floor.

 

[Globalti]

Nitromors will get rid of those last few blobs.

NOOOOOO!

Matt, do NOT put Nitromors on your skin.

 

[avalon]

NOOOOOO!

Matt, do NOT put Nitromors on your skin.

If you don't want to use Nitromors you could consider sand blasting it.

 

[buddha]

Use a blowtorch. Or maybe an angle grinder.

 

[asterix]

..or just paint the rest of you to match.