Originally Posted by
SMR 510RR
Another interesting fact, I seem to have developed a allergy
to CA. About 2 hours after gluing up a set of tires I start sneezing and my throat gets really dry and I cough every 5 min. Lasts about 3 days, now I wear a respirator while I glue and if its is nice out I do it outside to try to avoid the fumes. Seems stupid and I am not typically the guy wearing safety glasses or worrying much about stuff like that but I highly recommend getting a respirator to use while gluing. Took forever to figure out what it was because it took 2 or 3 hours for symptoms to start, sure enough there are lots of reports on the internet of similar reactions.
Catching up on the thread, as I was gone for a while...and I thought this was worth replying to.
I used to have no issues either, but ended up with the same after my last late night gluing session of a couple sets of SC tires (gold barcodes and orange barcodes) a couple months ago. It was getting a lot of the vapors at once when I spilled some that did it to me. Eyes watered and sinuses clogged up. Took me a week and a half to be able to breathe and not just cough all the time. Now, even just touching up a spot or two on a 10th scale buggy tire will make me go nuts if I'm not outside. I've managed to glue up a full set of 10th scale buggy tires in high wind outside though by doing one tire side at a time and taking a half hour between and only get like 5 minutes of eye watering after each one. I do my best to avoid it all now though, which sucks...but allows me to give slicks to people that might actually re-use tires. I really HATE that my next set of JC tires will have to have JC foams in them though, 'cause they SUCK in this thing (2 race days, might as well not have foam in the tire). I should really find myself a "tire guy"...might have to train my wife to do them outside for me...she ends up using them too anyway.
