News Flash: POR-15 really does stain your hands! - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

shertex · #1 10-12-2011, 07:57 AM

With one small can of POR-15, I was able to rehabilitate one battery tray (the other was so bad I had to replace it) and both areas beneath the trays. Really amazing stuff!

I used gloves for the marine clean and the prep and ready, but to maneuver the brush more easily to make sure I painted all the nooks and crannies I didn't use gloves for the paint. I thought, "How hard can it be to remove paint?" Big mistake. I am now the black version of leprous for the foreseeable future!

ngarover · #2 10-12-2011, 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by shertex

With one small can of POR-15, I was able to rehabilitate one battery tray (the other was so bad I had to replace it) and both areas beneath the trays. Really amazing stuff!

I used gloves for the marine clean and the prep and ready, but to maneuver the brush more easily to make sure I painted all the nooks and crannies I didn't use gloves for the paint. I thought, "How hard can it be to remove paint?" Big mistake. I am now the black version of leprous for the foreseeable future!

From the POR-15 website FAQ...

"IS IT DANGEROUS TO GET POR-15 ON MY HANDS?
No, but if you do, remove it at once with solvent or lacquer thinner. If POR-15® dries on your skin, nothing will take it off, and you will 'wear' it for 3 or 4 days until natural oils and flaking skin remove it."

shertex · #3 10-12-2011, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by ngarover

From the POR-15 website FAQ...

"IS IT DANGEROUS TO GET POR-15 ON MY HANDS?
No, but if you do, remove it at once with solvent or lacquer thinner. If POR-15® dries on your skin, nothing will take it off, and you will 'wear' it for 3 or 4 days until natural oils and flaking skin remove it."

Yes, but I'm guessing their 3 or 4 days figure is optimistic.

jeffr0000 · #4 10-12-2011, 11:31 AM

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Yes, but I'm guessing there 3 or 4 days figure is optimistic.

In my experience, it's very optimistic. Took maybe two weeks to get it all off. There are still spots in the driveway 3 years later. Awesome stuff, I salvaged a Scout II Traveltop with it, there isn't even the smallest sign of rust returning.

sokoloff · #5 10-12-2011, 11:35 AM

Had a guy on this list I think a few years ago who was wearing gloves while using POR15. He said he had to go to the bathroom REALLY bad in the middle of the job. Left his gloves on when he took a leak. Ended up with a black Johnson for a couple of weeks.

Sorry, no photos.

vstech · #6 10-12-2011, 11:40 AM

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Had a guy on this list I think a few years ago who was wearing gloves while using POR15. He said he had to go to the bathroom REALLY bad in the middle of the job. Left his gloves on when he took a leak. Ended up with a black Johnson for a couple of weeks.

Sorry, no photos.

sooo many different ways to respond to this...

"anybody know why it's called taking a leak?" I mean taking ON a leak maybe, or just leaking etc...

Stretch · #7 10-12-2011, 08:39 AM

Pictures please!

vstech · #8 10-12-2011, 08:51 AM

... "mommy, I DID wash my hands!!!"

shertex · #9 10-12-2011, 08:55 AM

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... "mommy, I DID wash my hands!!!"

When I (try to) touch my wife, it takes some convincing the black won't get on her!

JB3 · #10 10-12-2011, 08:58 AM

I once nearly got fired from a valet job in school for this very same problem.

POR-ed my car on saturday, got it all over my hands, scrubbed for a week. The boss pulled me aside and told me that no customer wants some idiot with black paint all over them driving their car.

Gave me a look I will remember forever when I told him how I couldn't get it off. Like a parent listening to a child lie to them about not stealing cookies with the jar open, and a cookie in their mouth.

Get some Lava soap and start using it in the shower and any time you wash your hands, speeds up the exfoliating process, and also gives you bright healthy skin, no wonder women are always sanding themselves!

Ive used rubber gloves since then

shertex · #11 10-12-2011, 09:03 AM

I'm a pastor....don't know that this will go over so well in administering the Lord's Supper!

Here's a pic.

Stretch · #12 10-12-2011, 09:29 AM

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I'm a pastor....don't know that this will go over so well in administering the Lord's Supper!

Here's a pic.

So your job is to say "body of Christ" and pop a wafer thin thing on someone's tongue?

shertex · #13 10-12-2011, 09:38 AM

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So your job is to say "body of Christ" and pop a wafer thin thing on someone's tongue?

No....I'm Presbyterian, not Roman Catholic.

Mike D · #14 10-12-2011, 09:36 AM

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I'm a pastor....don't know that this will go over so well in administering the Lord's Supper!

Here's a pic.

No problem. Just switch over to "Thin Mint" Girl Scout cookies instead of wafers for a week or so.

And yes, you are correct, "three or four days" IS being optimistic. The exposed areas of your hands will shed but that stuff will stay in the wrinkles, cracks and folds of your hands for a good week. Sigh, I know, I did the same thing before a wedding where I was giving away the bride.

Graham · #15 10-01-2012, 06:52 PM

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I'm a pastor....don't know that this will go over so well in administering the Lord's Supper!

I recall as a teenager going to confirmation lessons. The minister turned up one day with grease marks all over his hands. Apologized saying he had had trouble with his motor bike.

I never liked the guy until then