Murphy's Law for Speaker Cabinet Builders:

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Murphy's Law for Speaker Cabinet Builders:

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If there is wet PL ANYWHERE, I WILL stick my hand in it... ESPECIALLY if I have just removed my gloves. :wall:
Not just a touch either, usually an entire open palm.
It is a skill I guess I have developed over time. :lol:
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I had that problem early on, until I learned how little you should be using, and that you must cap the tube immediately after laying down the bead.

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tvent wrote: Mon Oct 15, 2018 3:12 pm If there is wet PL ANYWHERE, I WILL stick my hand in it... ESPECIALLY if I have just removed my gloves. :wall:
Not just a touch either, usually an entire open palm.
It is a skill I guess I have developed over time. :lol:
I always put down a piece of newspaper to rest the caulk gun on. There's always some ooze-out. The gloves stay one until AFTER the paper is thrown away.

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Bill Fitzmaurice wrote: Mon Oct 15, 2018 3:42 pm I had that problem early on, until I learned how little you should be using, and that you must cap the tube immediately after laying down the bead.
I always let off the pressure on the piston of the caulk gun.....still a little ooze, but not much.

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#5 Post by Bill Fitzmaurice »

Of course, if you don't then anything you stick into the nozzle to plug it will get pushed out.

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Oh, the ooze isn't the problem. It's usually personal stupidity. :clap:
I've, literally moments after squeezing a bead, turn around and stuck my hand right in it. LOL
Or, will be wearing gloves and get it on them, no biggie... until I grab the screw gun to drive a holding fastener in a panel - then a few minutes later grab the same screw gun but this time without the gloves. :lol:

I've learned a 3-4" screw stuck in the end of the tube works great as a cap. By the end of the project or tube, it has taken on a personality of it's own and does a great job of creating an air-tight seal. Always amazes me how long the open tube will keep for using this method... and YES, releasing the caulk-gun pressure after each bead is a MUST! (IITP, IIRC, but you learn it pretty fast.)

Another thing that amazes me is how long DuraTex keeps in the can. That, and how much is always left at the bottom when you look at it and think: That's almost empty. I grab a paint stir stick (or any scrap strip of wood laying around) and scrape it out and usually end up pouring some back in the bucket after I'm done.
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Haha, that was me today.
I had put away all the tools, PL put back where it goes and as I was wrapping up the last extension cord... yup, there it was! A big random glob of PL had gotten itself attached the cable and now its all over my hand.

Oh well, it wouldn't be the first time. :)
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I've come to embrace it. It's like a war wound I wear proudly.
It turns all black on my hands and won't wash off (at least so far, I haven't found anything to cut it.)
I get to work on Monday and people are like, why are your palms all black and splotchy?
I'm like, because I am making the world a better sounding place! :lol:
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Box of blue gloves surely helps but I get like this after awhile:

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One of these foot grinding pads the misses uses can clean up your hands like new if you need to present yourself:

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They take a bit of skin off so you can only use its magic once a week. Any more on you won't have any skin left.
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