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| Subject: | Info for Yuchung Wang on Building Resin Kits |  |
| Date: | Jun 4, 2003 |
| From: | Peter Ong | |
YuChung,
I saw your post and the replies on ML about "Required Resin Tools" but my PCs are so wacked now that I can't reply on ML and a few other DGs until I upgrade them.
I WOULD buy a mask and wear latex gloves due to my personal experience.
For one, I saw my resin underwater and yes, this gets to be a problem if you can't saw straight although I prefer that the water capture the dust than sawing straight. Even after just sawing ONE 120mm figure, I can see how much fine resin dust settles in the water and believe me, it's a LOT! The whole entire basin becomes cloudy.
As for the latex gloves, you need superglue to join resin and I can't believe reading all the horror stories about modelers gluing their own fingers together and then having to debond them. That has happened to me several times (even when using a toothpick as a swabber) but I always wear gloves so I just slip my hands out of them and throw the gloves away. Sometimes the gloves stick to dribbled superglue on the model and peels away the latex, leaving a hole in my gloves. Imagine what the glue can do to your real skin! Costco sells three boxes of gloves in a pack. One time I nearly cut myself with the saw and the saw sliced through the gloove but not my skin.
Be smart, be safe :-). I learned this when it comes to modeling: no one cries for you if you do something stupid. As the paramedics and firemen like to say, "No one ever calls us when they did something smart."
HTH,
Pete |
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