Protecting your meat puppets - gloves

[NY Old Guy]

When working on your vehicles and equipment do you guys wear protective gloves to protect your hands from chemicals and cuts? I've worn latex gloves before when cleaning parts but otherwise my hands are exposed. The latex gloves I've worn before are very uncomfortable, get hot and sweaty, and rip.

I'd propably like a pair of nice canvas or suede gloves, but then the oil would get into that.

Just curious do you guys wear gloves for this type of work, and is there a type or style or company brand that is recommended?

 

[Wrenches of Death]

When working on your vehicles and equipment do you guys wear protective gloves to protect your hands from chemicals and cuts?

I always thought that a meat puppet was something else.

As far as hands, I watch these young guys today wearing gloves while they're wrenching with amazement. I don't understand how they can feel what they're doing. I can't imagine trying to start a bolt or nut wearing those damn things. And they're no way in hell that I would wear them around anything that was moving.

They're not cheap either.

WoD

 

[Moose-LandTran]

I wear latex gloves at work. I go through about 100 a week.

 

[Wrenches of Death]

I wear latex gloves at work. I go through about 100 a week.

I keep a box of the blue EMT gloves around here for mixing pesticides and herbicides and stuff, but I've never tried wrenching in them.

At least you should be able to feel what you're doing with them. Are they kind of fragile around petroleum products?

Do you have to pay for them or does the company supply them?

WoD

 

[Grogan14]

I don't wear gloves when wrenching, other than when I'm working outside in the coldest of weather, which I have a pair of Ringers brand gloves for.

 

[neverenoughtools]

Latex or nitrile when working with fluids & mechanix type for everything else.

 

[muibubbles]

**this info is if i remember to wear them...

i try wearing nitrate gloves so the misses doesnt yell at me for black fingernails and crusty hands..

leather gloves when working with metal

Car stuff usually nitrate gloves so i can feel what im doing, other then that the beefier ones will go on when im doing exhausts, engine, and ****** stuff

 

[Monte]

...sometimes....throw away gloves....Mechanix get too expensive and don´t last that long...

 

[Moose-LandTran]

At least you should be able to feel what you're doing with them. Are they kind of fragile around petroleum products?

Do you have to pay for them or does the company supply them?

They're pretty much skin-tight, so there's very little loss of feel or restriction by wearing them. Yes, they do disintegrate when they come into contact with anything petrolium-based, like petrol or brake cleaner, they do the same when exposed to diesel, but to a lesser extent.

By law, my employer is required to supply them, but doesn't. So i am forced to supply my own at my own expense. (apparently £1.40/day between 3 mechanics is too expensive)

 

[Aklass]

I use latex gloves, but might switch to nitrile soon, I always use gloves now after picking up 2 nail infections from when I was too lazy to grab a pair

 

[Weps]

i have several pairs of leather drivers gloves that i use regularly when running power hand tools and especially when moving heavy/dirty/rusty/large things. also keep a box of nitrile for chemicals and some of the stretch mechanix style. the mechanix style get the least use and i'll probably not buy them again.

 

[TheGrooveking]

MEAT PUPPET = LOVE MACHINE = ORGASMATRON = F*CK KNUCKLE = GASH MASTER - just for reference.

TheGrooveking

 

[justanengineer]

I use gloves only when handling something HOT. Cleaning parts is done with real chemicals that no variety of glove would protect against, so no point. I am very good at cleaning my hands, dont mind calluses, and am otherwise careful.

 

[muibubbles]

^^ like

 

[Toolhorder]

...sometimes....throw away gloves....Mechanix get too expensive and don´t last that long...

Made in Germany what a surprise!

 

[Dara]

i use nitrile gloves all the time...find them very good dont rip easy an are a nice comfortable glove an a really good fit
link to the exact ones

http://www.hazchemsafety.co.uk/shop...tuff-green-powder-free-disposable-gloves.html

 

[RAYJAY]

nitrile when working with fluids & mechanix type for everything else.

 

[Monte]

Made in Germany what a surprise!

yup

www.Profas.de

 

[skiingman]

I use latex gloves, but might switch to nitrile soon, I always use gloves now after picking up 2 nail infections from when I was too lazy to grab a pair

I like latex for some things but in general I find the nitrile more comfortable and less likely to annoy me with snags.

 

[Frank The Plumber]

I always thought that a meat puppet was something else.

As far as hands, I watch these young guys today wearing gloves while they're wrenching with amazement. I don't understand how they can feel what they're doing. I can't imagine trying to start a bolt or nut wearing those damn things. And they're no way in hell that I would wear them around anything that was moving.

They're not cheap either.

WoD

You're correct.
Why is this guy hurting his meat puppet when working in the shop?
Pants. That would solve it.

 

[speed bump]

Our company supplies so many types of gloves its ridiculous. Depending on the task I have impact gloves, mechanics gloves, rubber dipped gloves, nitrile gloves, and leather gloves.

 

[littletoes]

"Mechanix" type gloves are too expensive for what you get, and I don't know how you'd clean 'em.

If I look at it, and see lots of grease, I'll wear a pair of Nitrile. The latex don't hold up, and weather for abrasion or the rubber coated cloth ones for winter time outside work.

For torch or heavy grinding, leather is the only way. Anything that will burn is not a good idea! And for Leather, NOTHING beats Goatskin. It outlasts every other form of leather that I have used, including pig, cow, horse, deer, elk. Pig, surprisingly just don't last.

 

[DaleK]

Other than torching or welding, I wear calluses. That's why God invented them.

 

[rsieracki]

i like the cheap latex ones from HF for greasy nasty jobs as you just toss them and put on a new pair every so often and you stay relativly clean but ya some jobs they cant be worn for but if im reassembling something chances are i cleaned it no its not a greasy mess anymore anyways

 

[tooth]

I'm surprised no ones mentioned the blue gloves that snapon & Mac carry. They hold up really well to petro products, don't rip easily, provide good tactile feedback, havE grippy finger tips and can protect past the wrist. One pair will easily last a week.

I use them for engine bay or otherwise greasy/messy tasks but go ******** for most everything else.

 

[shampoop]

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0012NVRS8/?tag=atomicindus08-20

Love these, excellent protection from minor cuts and abrasions, great heat resistance, waterproof on the front, breathable in the back, cheap and washable, and they are thin enough to where you only sometimes need to remove them when working with very small fasteners that you really don't wanna drop. (8mm and under)

When working with anything super greasy or with coolant, just switch to latex/nitrile disposable gloves.

 

[NY Old Guy]

Hey Guys, these are some great recommendations on lots of different types of gloves. Thanks!

 

[Hammer1963]

I use flock lined nitrile gloves for general mechanical work. They hold up and and absorb sweat well. Matco fabricators gloves for cutting, grinding and welding. Cheap disposable nitrile for paint work.

Hey they are your hands and if you make a living with them, your better to spend the money on the gloves, than spend it on surgery and cancer treatment.

 

[neonnblack]

I tried wearing nitrile/latex gloves but my hands get way to damn sweaty they end up just coming off so i just go bare hand and deal with it.

 

[not-required]

I just nitrile when I start the day and I just change them when they rip or I take a break. Sometimes they rip when Im in the middle of something so I just take them off and forget to put a new pair on, so I dont use after that.

 

[cp8737]

i wear blue nitrile gloves, they stand up to diesel and other chemicals much better than latex, my employer provides them, box of 100 last a tech approx 1 week

 

[Hank McMauser]

those nitrile coatet gloves that shamppop linked to are what I wear in the lumberyard, or working on my cars. they last me usually a little over a month before they start getting stinky/ or the rubber starts to breakdown& get sticky. For as thin as they are they are pretty impervious to splinters.

 

[ecotec]

i wear these nitrile gloves for wrenching on most things:

http://www.acehardware.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2148170&CAWELAID=109395853

anything where i feel there is a possibility of getting burned, i wear leather or nothing. i do not want my gloves to be permanent. i also try to buy 100% cotton or wool clothes.

 

[William Payne]

While on the topic of gloves could anyone recommend me a well fitting pair of welding gloves. I like to weld but don't like the big bulky gloves.

 

[littletoes]

Try the Elk hide welding gloves, much more "feel".