The Drated Yellow Glove

[Cheese]

Well I've been busy totally updating the bathroom and I needed to get a good grip on a small pipe that I didn't want to put a pipe wrench on. So, I grabbed one of those yellow grippy gloves that have a rubbery substance placed across the palm in a pattern for better grip. After using it, I placed it on top of my LS 130 Systainer. Today, (a week later) I decided to take the LS 130  Systainer downstairs and removed the glove. This is what I found:

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The pattern of the glove etched itself into the Systainer. The entire area covered by the glove was fairly soft as if you had placed a towel with acetone or zylol on it. I could remove small amounts of the Systainer with just my fingernail. Obviously, the glove was out-gassing something that attacked the cover.

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Here you can see the pattern in the cover and the pattern of the glove. Who'd have thunk? [eek]

 

[greg mann]

Looks like the old plastic worms and tacklebox phenomenon. I think the systainer will firm back up now that the glove is off it but the fingerprints will stay. [mad]

 

[John Broomall]

From what I understand this is a process where the plasticizers from one compound cause an adjacent compound to replasticize. The same thing can happen to a waterborne finish when a plastic or painted placemat is left on a table.

 

[Cheese]

[member=22]greg mann[/member]

Looks like the old plastic worms and tacklebox phenomenon. I think the systainer will firm back up now that the glove is off it but the fingerprints will stay. [mad]

Ya, I don't know, I'm just an average guy trying to update my house and the gloves melted into the Systainer. I was shocked.

So what's the story about the plastic worms and the tackle box?

 

[Sparktrician]

[member=22]greg mann[/member]

Looks like the old plastic worms and tacklebox phenomenon. I think the systainer will firm back up now that the glove is off it but the fingerprints will stay. [mad]

Ya, I don't know, I'm just an average guy trying to update my house and the gloves melted into the Systainer. I was shocked.

So what's the story about the plastic worms and the tackle box?

The plastic worms seem to melt into the tackle box leaving their profile where they lay FOREVER!!!  [scared]

 

[peter halle]

Heck, you should see what a leaky can of acetone can do to a limited edition Festool green mini systainer when it accumulates in the handle well.  Can we say plastic welding.  Then having to cut it open to get to the contents only added to the moment.

Yes - I can laugh at myself!

Peter

 

[Cheese]

[member=7493]Sparktrician[/member]
Thanks...

The plastic worms seem to melt into the tackle box leaving their profile where they lay FOREVER!!!  [scared]

That's interesting, because the grippy material on the glove is very similar (if not the same thing) as the plastic worms. I wonder what it out-gasses?

 

[Cheese]

Then having to cut it open to get to the contents only added to the moment.

Peter

That's funny...first of all having to trash a limited edition Systainer, and then being careful cutting the Systainer so as to not damage the contents.  [jawdrop]

 

[teocaf]

i believe that the grippy material on the glove is PVC and it will interact with the ABS plastic that the systainer is made out of.  PVC is notorious for outgassing the toxic additives in it.  Yet it is up there as one of the most used plastics.

and like peter found out the hard way the acetone will dissolve the ABS.  you can use that to your advantage if you're trying to shape your own plastic.

 

[Cheese]

[member=2205]teocaf[/member]
You're correct, I just Googled "Criss Cross Grippy Glove" and it uses PVC to enhance the traction.  [not worthy]