Marine clean

[Ed]

I got one of those POR-15 kits with Marine Clean, Metal Ready and POR-15 for a little project under the hood cowling. Anyway, I get ready to use the Marine Clean, I dilute it with some warm water about 5:1 and start washing away. That stuff is strong! Not only did it degrease the car but it also removed the natural oils in my skin! It dried up my hands something wicked! I thought my hands were going to crack into little pieces and fall off. It ended up drying a layer of skin right off my hands.

Morale of the story is be careful with this stuff! Use gloves. I learned the hard way. :stupid:

[EScanlon]

I used it on a one to one with super hot water for something of mine, and I can atest to what you say. It will definitely leave things squeaky.

Although they recommend latex gloves I bought a pair of those heavy duty chemical handling gloves at Home Depot. They worked fine until I caught a thumb on an edge of sheet metal.

By the way, the Metal Prep can be saved and reused (to a degree) if you put a plastic pan underneath to catch it. Don't use that stuff without gloves either.

And with the POR, get some of the VINYL gloves not the latex. They last longer and you can even clean them up a bit with Lacquer Thinner.

Believe them when they say that if you don't clean up the POR from your body you will WEAR IT. It takes about 3-5 days to get it to come off. Keep a rag and some lacquer thinner for those inevitable "oops" spots.