Cleaning before epoxy

[Woodbuster]

Originally Posted by thefishingfreak

avoid the problem in the first place. clean hands. no chicken wings. no wd40 or such lingering in the air and you'll be all set.

I've tried this with mixed results. Its just that when wireing a plug they get manhandled and even if you wear gloves, you are still touching a lot of potential contaminents. I'm thinking of trying an experiment with household cleaners that wont remove the createx.

[numbskull]

Scott and Paul, thanks for the heads up on the UV stuff, saved me some trouble and brain cells (which are getting precious these days).

[Backbeach Jake]

I scrub my hands with cheap dishwashing liquid and dry well. If I so much as touch my nose, I scrub again. I use no aerosols in the house before or after clearing with E-tex lite. As Fishingfreak said keep it clean to start with. I use a cheapo acrylic from ACMoore called "Traditions" and I don't scuff after paint. The 2 plugs that peeled on me (that I know of) peeled because of the E-tex ratio was off. I did have a "fisheye" problem with a coupla batches. That was before scrubbing with dish soap.