Expanding Foam ......... silly question ...........

[jamma-plusser]

How do you get dried up expanding foam out of clothes? I've managed to
unknowingly drip some onto my jacket and it's a pig to remove.

Will any chemicals disolve it and leave the fabric (nylon) unharmed?

Thanks

[Stuart Noble]

I think you're stuck with it. Nothing shifts it from your skin either

[Ian_m]

"jamma-plusser" <jamma-...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:48108529....@news.zen.co.uk...

> How do you get dried up expanding foam out of clothes? I've managed to
> unknowingly drip some onto my jacket and it's a pig to remove.
>
> Will any chemicals disolve it and leave the fabric (nylon) unharmed?
>

Acetone (or MEK) will disolve is slightly, but they also tend to remove
colour out of things as well, so be careful.

I think the Pollycell web site says the only way to remove solid foam is via
mechanical means....

[John Rumm]

You can get "foam eater" products that may help. Can't say whether they
will also eat the jacket though!

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John.

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[jamma-plusser]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:21:01 +0100, John Rumm
<see.my.s...@nowhere.null> wrote:

Thanks all, might try some acetone .............

[Stuart Noble]

I wouldn't bother. It's only a solvent for uncured foam. Once it's gone
off, you've basically had it.

[Andy Hall]

On 2008-04-24 17:21:09 +0100, Stuart Noble
<stuart_no...@ntlworld.com> said:

Foam eater does work to an extent. I used some on a concrete area.
It is time consuming and quite a bit is needed with several
applications.

I also tried it on some heavy duty work trousers and while it did
remove the cured foam on the surface, it didn't from the weave. I
doubt if it ever would to any degree of perfection. It's not cost
effective in terms of materials and certainly not in terms of time.

For work type clothes it's a case of chuck them and replace.

If it's an Armani suit then a lesson learned.

[Stuart Noble]

I think he said it was a nylon jacket. For all I know they might be
trendy these days

[Lobster]

Sorry, wrong! I once managed to get some on our hall carpet via the
bottom of my shoe (didn't notice till next day when it had gone off and
expanded into substantial blobs. I thought I was dead meat, but it came
off beautifully using acetone.

Acetone will probably trash the OP's nylon jacket though... try a small
amount on a non-visible area first.

David

[The Medway Handyman]

such as an angle grinder :-)

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www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

[Peter Parry]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:05:36 GMT, jamma-...@hotmail.com
(jamma-plusser) wrote:

>How do you get dried up expanding foam out of clothes?

Having had some experience of this (including carpets, walls, skin and
hair) I can say with some confidence that you don't. Ever.

[The Natural Philosopher]

I am inclined to agree with this.

When doing DIY there should always be set of clothes that normally
wouldn't interest a starving Biafran, for use till past disintegration
point.

[Stuart Noble]

Her indoors would say that all my clothes fall into that category

[1501]

All of these foaming PU products are an absolute swine to get out of
clothes including PU woodworking adhesive.

Don't ask how I know.

[Dave Liquorice]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:21:12 GMT, Stuart Noble wrote:

>> Will any chemicals disolve it and leave the fabric (nylon) unharmed?
>

> I think you're stuck with it. Nothing shifts it from your skin either

Try vegetable oil and mechanical removal (agitation, flexing, picking).
Veg oil got the damn stuff off my hands without removing the skin. The
foam had set but was still "fresh" not fully cured. If I ever use
expanding foam again, I'll put some veg oil on my hands first as a release
agent. ISTR that the tin had this information on it.

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Cheers
Dave.