Stupid newbie mistake

starmanmm · Post by **starmanmm** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:33 pm

I haven't been building anything since I lost my hobby room last fall.

Well, where I live now... I made a small workbench in the basement.

Ok...

Well, I just got this resin kit and placed it in a metal foil pan and coved it with purple power to degrease it....

Well.... that stuff ate right thru the pan and leached all over the workbench.

Not only did it this stuff etch a pattern of the bottom of the pan on the workbench (which had two coats of poly) but it left a gritty residue on the model also!

Ok... so now I have it soaking in a pan of clean water and I am hoping that wet sanding the pieces with 800 or 1000 grit will take the grit off the model.

Moral of the story... if you are using purple power to clean your resin... don't do it in an alumimium foil pan. $:\$

USSARCADIA · Post by **USSARCADIA** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 8:09 pm

Don't feel bad, I made the same mistake. Luckily I did it in to bathtub and rinsed it all down the drain, no damage to model. It was only then I read the back of the bottle. D'oh!!

Sticking to Simple Green.

davidlgreen · Post by **davidlgreen** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 9:50 pm

ditto. done it too.

Lt. Z0mBe · Post by **Lt. Z0mBe** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 12:31 am

What are these "mistakes" you speak of? I am not familiar with this concept. However, once I intentionally stripped the paint from a failed build with oven cleaner, taking the top layers of skin on my hands too. But "mistake" it was not.

Kenny

starmanmm · Post by **starmanmm** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 7:15 am

Kenny wrote:

...taking the top layers of skin on my hands too. But "mistake" it was not.

Well... that was a scary take on "mistake"....

Figured to use soft scrub to see if it will take off the residue on the kit tonight.