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I don't know if anyone else here has had problems with Gorilla products?
As some of you are aware, I have been doing my own home renovations for a while now (5 years and counting) ...and I hit upon a potential solution to the Gorilla Glue epidemic sweeping the world by storm.
As a lot of builders or carpenters know, Expanding Foam is a great way to fill small gaps prior to exterior and interior cladding of doorways and framing etc. Over the past few months I have been finishing up a garden shed that I have wanted for many years....and finally got the time & money to complete the deal. Built from Polystyrene insulated Colour-Steel panels, it came together very fast....took about 2 days for me to complete the wall erection on my own. Wife & son assisted with fitting the corrugated roof sections....more about that later.
During the process of completing the interior trim angles, I decided to fill the gaps in the mitres with expanding foam....nobody is that good on their first attempt as to not have a few gaps. So I dig out the Gorilla cans and the dispensing gun....only to find nothing came out. After some poking & prodding, and undoing the nozzle, I discovered the foam inside the gun had gummed up, and some had set hard. I wasn't about to go and buy another gun....so I set about cleaning up this one.
Managed to scrape and 'chisel' the hard deposits out with a small screwdriver, but could not flush the sticky foam out of the nozzle. Since I was all out of paint thinners, and I didn't have anything like the recommended cleaning agent to hand....I decided to improvise.
I looked around and saw a can of CRC Brakleen on the bench. I know this stuff stings if it goes in your eyes....did that last week. So I tried a bit on the nozzle end, and it softened the foam quite fast - and soft enough to remove with a hand wipe cloth. So I got adventurous....and squirted a quantity down the barrel of the gun from the can end....let it sit for a few minutes, and slowly the foam liquified, and started oozing out.
After several more fills & cleanouts, the gun was clean enough to use again. Plopped on a can and tried it out. From a near empty can, I couldn't believe how much foam came out....it was awesome. Managed to get the entire foaming job done, and clean up was easy.
So if CRC Brakleen works that well on the Gorilla Expanding Foam, it stands to reason that all these idiots out there could use it on the heads after using Gorilla Glue.
Only one small side-effect.....I noticed that my thumbnail was suffering from what I can only assume is acute dryness and cracking....it will recover in shirt time. That CRC does dry out all the oils from your skin...so please wear gloves
As some of you are aware, I have been doing my own home renovations for a while now (5 years and counting) ...and I hit upon a potential solution to the Gorilla Glue epidemic sweeping the world by storm.
As a lot of builders or carpenters know, Expanding Foam is a great way to fill small gaps prior to exterior and interior cladding of doorways and framing etc. Over the past few months I have been finishing up a garden shed that I have wanted for many years....and finally got the time & money to complete the deal. Built from Polystyrene insulated Colour-Steel panels, it came together very fast....took about 2 days for me to complete the wall erection on my own. Wife & son assisted with fitting the corrugated roof sections....more about that later.
During the process of completing the interior trim angles, I decided to fill the gaps in the mitres with expanding foam....nobody is that good on their first attempt as to not have a few gaps. So I dig out the Gorilla cans and the dispensing gun....only to find nothing came out. After some poking & prodding, and undoing the nozzle, I discovered the foam inside the gun had gummed up, and some had set hard. I wasn't about to go and buy another gun....so I set about cleaning up this one.
Managed to scrape and 'chisel' the hard deposits out with a small screwdriver, but could not flush the sticky foam out of the nozzle. Since I was all out of paint thinners, and I didn't have anything like the recommended cleaning agent to hand....I decided to improvise.
I looked around and saw a can of CRC Brakleen on the bench. I know this stuff stings if it goes in your eyes....did that last week. So I tried a bit on the nozzle end, and it softened the foam quite fast - and soft enough to remove with a hand wipe cloth. So I got adventurous....and squirted a quantity down the barrel of the gun from the can end....let it sit for a few minutes, and slowly the foam liquified, and started oozing out.
After several more fills & cleanouts, the gun was clean enough to use again. Plopped on a can and tried it out. From a near empty can, I couldn't believe how much foam came out....it was awesome. Managed to get the entire foaming job done, and clean up was easy.
So if CRC Brakleen works that well on the Gorilla Expanding Foam, it stands to reason that all these idiots out there could use it on the heads after using Gorilla Glue.
Only one small side-effect.....I noticed that my thumbnail was suffering from what I can only assume is acute dryness and cracking....it will recover in shirt time. That CRC does dry out all the oils from your skin...so please wear gloves