Did not want to post this with the MEK controversy.
But was curious.
Purchased a tube of Mr. White Putty from Hobby Lobby and was reading the small print (needed a magnifying glass) safety precautions. Along with the usual avoid ignition sources, provide adequate ventilation, wear protective gloves, et cetra stuff, it says “wash hands and gargle mouth thoroughly after use”.
So my question is do I have to gargle after every use, or only after I chew the product?
And don’t forget to put bullets in your nose to protect your nasal lining.
It’is unfortunate that so many people find so little opportunity to include the craft in the legalese. Or, that they’re merely incapable of, or indifferent to, that worthy combination. It is also unfortunate that people who would make such silly mistakes are the least likely to bother reading the caveats, or the least likely to understand them.
In this instance, tho’, t’is a combination of a lack of vigilance or quality assurance and a foreigner’s translation. Probably Chinese.
Hey hoser! Take-off, eh?
Wayne
Beat me to it! One of my favorite movies next to Spies Like Us
I never gargle with Gorilla Glue after I use it on my hair.
I thought the ‘Mr’ products were Korean?
What an education, eh?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OJE3EgTGg9
… did our lawyer call ya?
I only gargled one time early in the morning and it caused a gag reflex!
It ended up being blown all over the mirror like the “Fountain of Youth”.
I can’t quite remember the reason I thought I needed to gargle after what ever it was that I used.
I learned my lesson that day my friends, As I have never gargled again since then eh!
[(-D]TF
Okay, there have been some humorous comments about this. Might be a typo, might be a mistranslation of some sort.
Anybody have a big slice of Granny’s cheese cake lately? Notice how there’s sometimes a big glop of oily phlegm collected in your throat afterwards? Ever wonder why people have tonsils? Ever wonder if the two might be related?
In college back in the Stone Age, we used to transfer reagents in chem lab via things called mouth pipettes. Google it. Organics (particularly aromatics) would leave a taste in your nose/throat for days. The practice has long since been eliminated, but is still pretty common in third-world countries (such as China).
What y’all are looking at might be instructions that are translated correctly and are remnants of the packing material or some outsourced offshore version of the Material Specs.
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio . . .
Robert
Okay, according to the label the stuff is manufactured by GSI Creos Corp, a Tokyo, Japan company. You can Google them.
Contains: silicon dioxide; 2-pentanone; 4-hydroxy-4 methl-isobtyl alchole; 2-pentanone; 4-methly-etylbenzene; 2-propanol; cellulose; nitrate.
Hope I got all that correct. As I mentioned, I had to look through a magnifying glass so I may have punctuated in the wrong places.
If anyone is really interested, there is an 800 number to call for info. And the State of California warning doesn’t look like a translation.
Don’t know what all the big chemical names mean, but maybe MEK will turn out to be safer.
edit: you can also google Mr. White Putty, and there’s a FineScaleModeler thread:
http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/general_discussion/f/9/t/83387.aspx
Close; that ‘2-pentanone’ is methyl propyl ketone, a little worse as a solvent and more expensive than MEK. One suspects that if the carcinogenic mechanism that has been dogging discussions of MEK safety for 2 decades now is active in humans, it may apply to MPK as well.
The gargling may be related to the methyl amyl alcohol, which is a solvent for the, ah, cellulose nitrate.
4-methylethylbenzene is paraethyltoluene, another strategically substituted old friend on the solvent list.
2-propanol is just isopropyl alcohol.
The silicon dioxide is essentially finely-divided quartz; it’s the ‘white’ in this stuff. But the kicker is the cellulose nitrate… yes, that’s guncotton.
I know nothing of Mr White Putty.
PSI Kneadatite epoxy putty is used by wargamers and military modelers, and so is Milliput. These are two-part products that must be mixed.
I know several people, including many on-line tutorials, where the user chews the epoxy putty to mix it together.
I would never do that.
-Kevin
Well now, let’s see…
PSI says to be sure to wear ‘impermeable gloves’ when you mix Green. In case that is not enough hint, here is a quote from them:
Milliput is a lot like an epoxy Mr White – it loads the resin up with white clay. The Milliput people say to ‘avoid contact with skin, eyes, and clothing’. In their helpful first-aid section:
Now, I suppose some budding William Jefferson Clinton could say ‘Well, I got it into my mouth without getting much on my fingers, and none in my eyes or on my clothes … and I was careful not to swallow’.
It’s dum
Isn’t gargling after ops sessions a part of every model railroaders oral tradition
Back when I was attending operation sessions, I wish many of the participants would have gargled BEFORE!
-Kevin
Along with taking a shower and using deodorant.[+o(]