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This stuff works great, but is the stuff of nightmares.
So....yeah it works great. However....the label on the back is highly misleading. Because I am a man, i do man things. I have used my hands to spread lots of things from elmers glue to jb weld. I figured this would go no differently. I was sadly mistaken. I was filling some cracks in my foundation and some of it was leaking out and spreading thicker in some areas. So I used three of my fingers to spread the material out into the cracks. This was the start of a long and painful experience. I noticed immediately that I couldn't simply rub my fingers together to "roll" the material to get it off, like you can with most glues. So I used my working hand to grasp the can and read the label on the back. "If you contact this on your skin, simply rinse with soap and water." Simple. Just rinse. So I headed jovially upstairs and washed my hands. When the water left the faucet, I noticed the horrifying reality of the water SIMPLY bouncing off this product. The soap SIMPLY helped smear the product further into my skin. I panicked. In my panicked stupor, I grabbed the closest thing to me that I could think of. A roll of paper towels. I ignorantly used the paper towels to try to grab the stuff off my fingers and pull. This made things 10x worse. Now I had this satanic cement on my hand AND the paper towel had created a horrid mesh of filth that was resistant to every product known to man. My next try was to use an old T shirt to try to wipe this stuff off my hands. The shirt stuck badly to my hand and I nearly had the same problem as the paper towels. I spent a minute yanking and finally got the towel off and saw the sad reality that all that pulling had made ZERO impact on removing any of the gunk. I started yelling for my wife and begged her to google this filth in order to find a solution....you know....since I couldn't use my phone for lack of having a second hand. She did so and told me that olive oil was said to relieve this issue. So I poured olive oil all over my hand and started scrubbing. This made only the slightest difference in my dilemma. I went and sat down on the couch dejectedly and turned on Season 5 Episode 4 of Dexter to make me feel better....although it didn't help much. The product had hardened at this point and I spent the next 4 hours picking away at my hand to get this stuff off. By the end of that time, I had managed to get off about 1/2 of it or so. I really needed to go to bed so I hit the shower and tried to wash my body with my brand new plastic hand. It only went okay. While I was in there, though, I noticed my wife's pumice stone. For the next 30 minutes, I sat under the water tearfully scraping away at what was left of my hand. After that 30 minutes or so, i had removed most of the offending substance and also a good portion of the skin on my hand. Success, kind of. The moral of the story is one that we all should know by the time we are 12 or so. Don't just willy nilly decide to do something like this without reading up on it first. Even if the label on the back does say that simple rinsing of water and soap will solve the issue. FML
May 2017 · Tools and Home Improvement · verified purchase
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Great Stuff Big Gap Filler - 12 oz Cans - Full Case (12 cans)
4.4★ · 714 ratings, as of 2023
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