Gloves that are resistant to LACQUER THINNER

[In My Garage]

I work with lacquer thinner quite often and those blue nitrile gloves we get at Harbor Freight last a few minutes till they swell and fall apart. Fair enough as they were never designed for that.

Does anyone know of thin 5, 7 or 9 mil thick gloves that can handle lacquer thinner or acetone? What material would they be made of?

 

[Bubba Fett]

Have you tried the black nitrile gloves?

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[jabberwoki]

I was just wondering about this very question
the other day.
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[engineer2]

PVA come to mind. Lacquer thinner eats most flexible plastics and rubber except for polysulfide, but I've never seen polysulfide gloves.

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[American Locomotive]

If you want gloves that will hold up to lacquer thinner (which is mostly acetone and methanol), you will need butyl rubber gloves.

 

[unslow1]

I've seen this question asked on a lot of forums and as far I've seen nobody has found any disposable gloves that stand up more than a few minutes.

 

[In My Garage]

Have you tried the black nitrile gloves?

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I don't think the color has anything to do with it other than the black gloves are thicker at Harbor Freight.

I think it is the Nitrile that is incompatible with lacquer thinner.

 

[Bubba Fett]

Doing some research on this...

Lacquer thinner tends to have several solvents, so it's hard to find gloves that are resistant to all of them. If you can get an ingredient list, and compare it to a manufacturers glove resistance chart, you might be able to find something that works. Here is a glove resistance chart that may be helpful, but I would imagine each brand should have their own somewhere.

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[In My Garage]

PVA come to mind. Lacquer thinner eats most flexible plastics and rubber except for polysulfide, but I've never seen polysulfide gloves.

McMaster-Carr

McMaster-Carr is the complete source for your plant with over 595,000 products. 98% of products ordered ship from stock and deliver same or next day.

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I should have thought of this before. I went to a rubber compatibility chart...spot on! I also checked Toluene, it takes a different rubber compound.

 

[In My Garage]

Thanks everybody! I am going to have a slew of different gloves material types; neoprene, nitrile, etc.

And I am going to find a rubber compatibility site in PDF I can download. I have the same for O-rings.

 

[dnschmidt]

Glove manufacturers publish the chemical resistance of glove material. in THIS PARTICULAR CASE Latex is far superior to Nitrile and I can tell you that from practical experience as well because I paint cars and latex is far more resistant to lacquer thinner than Nitrile. I always use latex when I'm cleaning my guns.

 

[niget2002]

I love this site.

I was just about to post this exact question and was very happy to see a post was already made. I've recently got into doing automotive paint. I bought some gloves that do OK until cleanup time.

I'm going to get some latex gloves and see if they do better.