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To: cosmicforce who wrote (54560)	8/15/2000 1:04:43 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 71178

The funny thing is, I used floor mastic on the same project. First I bonded a half-inch of scuzboard to the plywood top of this bench, to thicken it. I used an ENTIRE CAN (quart) of floor mastic to masticate the crudboard onto the sanded ply. I didn't find the mastic to be much of a problem; a soak in mineral spirit (followed by a little Bounty Towel action) took it all off. But it is amazing stuff - it makes this black-magic transition from oatmealy babyfood texture to glue snot flypaper. It certainly did a fine job of acoustically deadening my benchtop. The dried contact cement doesn't dissolve in mineral spirit the way the floorjism did. It softened some, but then required Aggressive Mechanical Cleaning to truly remove. I did rescue a paintbrush that I used in the latter desperate stages of the Contact Cement Betrothal. It took repeated rinses of pure methylene chloride. I will give that brush a place of honor now - it survived a suicide mission. Methylene chloride, now that stuff will grow you tumors. I worked in a fume hood, youbetcha. MEK on the other hand - I don't believe it to be more toxic than, say, drug store brand tequila. gives you about the same sort of headache, too. And Rite-Aid tequila will ruin paintbrushes.