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| | | | Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 2,187 Insomniac | | Insomniac Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 2,187 | Yesterday, Fran decided to organize the shelves with the paint supplies. There was a can of PPG Omni MH 168 Hardener sitting there. She opened the can to see if the hardener was of any use (old hardener usually goes solid). Anyway, when she opened it it went off like a shotgun - she wasn't hurt - just very surprised. Almost gave me a heart attack and I was 20 feet away. The stuff was boiling like crazy in the can - we left it outside where it continued to boil for a couple of hours.
Be careful opening paint containers!
Gord 🇨🇦
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1954 1/2 ton 235 4 speed
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 622 Member | | Member Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 622 | Sounds like somebody added another chemical to the hardener.
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| | | | | Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 100 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 100 | On the same note, I have had the same thing happen with 5 gal. cans of laquer thinner and aircraft paint stripper. As a precaution, open containers away from your eyes/face...
Better safe than sorry...
Andy
A man is like an old truck... He will rust out before he wears out...
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 3,458 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 3,458 | I had a full jug of POR strip that finally decided to pop the bottom outward and it jumped off the shelf and hit my motorcycle right on the seat. Fortunately it didn't leak, or that would have been a problem. When they say to store that stuff in cool & dry, they mean it.
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A lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 95 Member | | Member Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 95 | Major emphasis on the COOL part. Here in Az with 110 and 115 temps the inside of the garage is above 140. Cans of all kinds explode, stripper, paint, you name it! Redcoat | | | | | Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 622 Member | | Member Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 622 | I'd explode in 140º temps.......
delete my account and pictures
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 66 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 66 | 140º? Arizona? Unsafe? Heck, I thought that DRY heat was good for you! | | |
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