Wrenching Nortons - "A White Glove Affair"

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tpeever said:
I usually wear nitrile gloves when working with particularly toxic stuff like carb cleaner but find they tear easily. I wonder if wearing gloves can be worse than nothing at all sometimes when they leak because they hold chemicals IN against your skin. Maybe it's a matter of finding tougher gloves.
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Where are you getting your gloves from?
 
Sad thing is if you always wore gloves your workshop manual just wouldn't accumulate any character.
 
I wish I had, soluable cutting oil and waste oil have taken their toll on my paws, although I still don,t really like working with them on I can,t feel what I'm doing.I see guys today working with gloves on and think BLOODY POOFTERS as I'm struggling to pick a washer up off the floor for the 3rd time because my cracked crappy hands have reduced feeling or are sore again. :( :(
 
I'm still old school but have a mate who swears by gloves, you guys got me thinking now.
Would also save the grief from someone yet again leaving grimey marks all round the sink :roll:
Having finally bought some slip on garage shoes, after walking oil into the hallway carpet one too many times, gloves might even get me back in credit - briefly at least .
 
I'm using Mechanix gloves whenever I'm touching oily dirty stuff. They soak with oil a bit so after some weeks of use there will be an oil film when I pull them out but it still means all I need for cleaning hands is soap. Once in a while I clean them by washing my hands with them on with a decent load of soap and warm water. Then rinsing with clean cold water and when they're dry they need a few movements to become soft again.

Vinyl gloves are really good for light work with fuel but for all the rest they're too fragile. I use them for laminating GRP off course.


Tim
 
I use Agitene biodegradable non-toxic parts washing solvent, and don't get much gas or oil on my hands.

GoJo cream for wash up, and that's that! A bit of grime under the nails is acceptable in my circles.
 
Tintin said:
I'm using Mechanix gloves whenever I'm touching oily dirty stuff. They soak with oil a bit so after some weeks of use there will be an oil film when I pull them out but it still means all I need for cleaning hands is soap. Once in a while I clean them by washing my hands with them on with a decent load of soap and warm water. Then rinsing with clean cold water and when they're dry they need a few movements to become soft again.

Vinyl gloves are really good for light work with fuel but for all the rest they're too fragile. I use them for laminating GRP off course.


Tim
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I tried mechanics gloves but once they get oily you can't just throw them in the wash, especially if the better half is around. With old bikes they tend to be dirtier than newer stuff.
 
swooshdave said:
I tried mechanics gloves but once they get oily you can't just throw them in the wash, especially if the better half is around. With old bikes they tend to be dirtier than newer stuff.
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Yes, they do get oily pretty quickly. But that can be minimized from time to time by hand washing them and the oil that makes it through to the skin is far less than what would be without gloves - if you allow for the slightly crude description I use the gloves as dirt filters between my skin and these 30 year old ugly residues which tend to be found on basket cases. Washing hands afterwards is pretty straightforward with simple soap and I never needed the more abrasive stuff since using them. The mechanics in our race team used them too but more for a bit of heat protection.



Tim
 
I can't do really finicky stuff in rubber gloves like start a difficult nut, but they do save a lot of clean up. Somebody mentioned a chain which is a great example. Mine needed cleaning, lubing, and adjusting the other day, especially after I got caught in a rain storm. Everything down there was filthy and I went though a few sets of rubber gloves, but personal clean up was pretty easy.
Each to his own on this stuff, some of you guys are like surgeons...as for me once a diesel mechanic always a diesel mechanic I guess, and my bikes look it.
 
BrianK said:
anything that cuts exposure to carcinogens and brain/liver-killing chemicals is worth something.
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Dammit Brian, you're not suggesting that I give up Malt Whisky, strong ale and bacon sandwiches are you ? :(
 
My hands are dry and crack as it is so add in solvents and hand cleaner into the equation and it makes things worse.

I've been wearing disposable latex gloves since my bicycle mechanic days back in the 90's. I got called a pussy by my boss but that useless bastard never lifted a finger in the shop anyway.
 
RennieK said:
Sad thing is if you always wore gloves your workshop manual just wouldn't accumulate any character.
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Since I wear gloves my manual just has a coffee stain or two. :roll:
 
79x100 said:
Dammit Brian, you're not suggesting that I give up Malt Whisky, strong ale and bacon sandwiches are you ? :(
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Life wouldn't be worth it without the three essential foods :mrgreen:
 
Coco said:
RennieK said:
Sad thing is if you always wore gloves your workshop manual just wouldn't accumulate any character.
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Since I wear gloves my manual just has a coffee stain or two. :roll:
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My manual has plenty of character even with gloves on. Luckily it's just a printout of the PDF so I don't care.
 
Not sure why folks think wearing gloves is gonna save your manual from oil stains. Unless you take them off before handling it, which with nitriles means putting on another pair afterwards. And takes too bloody long. No, my manuals are still getting all the character they can handle, thanks!
 
Flo said:
How times have changed.
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yeah you got that right. where was those rubber gluvs back when we were washing our parts in leaded gas? How about a cheap mask when we were grinding away on those brake shoes? I could go on but wtf. Nobody knew any better then.
 
I used to grind off bus brake shoes with no mask. You are right, nobody knew any better.
 
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