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Old 08-26-2013 | 10:12 PM
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Originally Posted by justpoet
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.
Get yourself a full face respirator, that should keep it out of your eyes and lungs. I dont really have an issue with my eyes at all, just my sinuses run like crazy and the back of my throat gets so dry like nothing I have ever experienced. I am wondering if its the Loctite glue I switched to. Never had a reaction with anything else before (AKA and Bob Smith mostly).

I also read that using a medium glue vs. a thin will be better because it doesnt flash off as fast. The Loctite glue is water thin maybe that is the difference in my case.

You can also try some over the counter allergy meds for when you glue, I did a bunch of reading when I suspected it was the glue and some people say it helps (not 100% but probably better than nothing).
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