Does anybody do wrenching without gloves & why?

[MOwens]

No gloves for me. I have seen way to many hands mangled by spinning equipment to ever want to wear gloves. The only time I wear gloves in the shop is if I’m welding or cleaning out metal chips from the mill or lathe or painting. But I am a machinist who only occasionally wrenches on my own projects. I have a hand lotion dispenser right next to the soap dispenser because I have to wash my hands a lot because of cutting fluid.

 

[Glemon]

I used to wear them only when I welded. I have started to wear nitrile gloves but limited use, will put them on for short jobs like an oil change, rattle can spray paint, pack a couple bearings. No sense spending 10 minutes cleaning up from a half hour job.

For big jobs I used to try it but after tearing and replacing a few times I always just say fudge it and go without.

Thick gloves only for welding or a situation where I might get zapped, can't stand the lack of feel in starting a nut, especially if I am two ********* it in a hard to reach place.

I do wear leather work gloves for heavy yard work to avoid blisters or thorns and cuts, but feel isn't a big deal for that, I still usually end up taking them off and forgetting them for a while at some point.

 

[simnil]

I use gloves almost all the time, have several pairs in different states of dirtyness and change back and forth depending on what I do.

I started wearing gloves when I began having skin problems on my hands after a couple of months working in a heavy truck repair shop. All that brake dust, grease and corresponding heavy duty hand cleaner made my hands so dry the skin cracked in the middle of the palms just by opening my hands fully. Took some months getting used to working in gloves but now I can work on quite small things without taking the gloves off.
Nowadays I'm an office guy but I still wear gloves when wrenching/welding/building or even when I'm just going for a walk with the dogs..... when I think of it, I almost always wear gloves when I'm out of the house =)

 

[pi_guy]

I wear gloves for welding, hockey and ski racing. Plus I have a glove I use for handling fish with barbs or sharp fins
Maybe if it is greasy job I might do disposable if I need to stay clean. Such as changing the prop on my boat before I go fishing. I have found that working with gloves in building assemblies you don't have the same feel, and often you will discover burrs or chips or other items that the insensitivity of gloves would miss.
SO has a good nail brush and a bar of Lava soap does the rest.

 

[bcdesertdog]

when I remember ill put on glove but most of the time bare handed. only exception is welding cuz the gloves are with the machine.

 

[Cryptic1911]

I've tried, but my hands get really hot in them. With rubber gloves its even worse. Busted knuckles and grease it is for me

 

[MoparMadmanTn]

I wear Mechanix thin gloves, saves skinned knuckles and gives a little more grip on smooth chrome ratchets and wrenches.

 

[JD Miller]

I dont wear gloves, never have.

I R&R'ed a 4x4 front drive shaft and pulled the front axle pinion yoke cleaned and painted it, replaced the seal , re assembled and installed new drive shaft and barely got my hands dirty

latex gloves get a Hole or rips

 

[bobg03]

When I worked in Industrial Maintenance, I always wore a set of sized Leather Style baseball glove, when I worked for Fire Dept of course we wore gloves at an incident and on the railroad regular industrial cuffed gloves.

At home now not so much unless I'm doing something repetitive like raking to avoid blisters.

For fishing I have a high dexterity set, braid cuts and hurts.

Yes I've gotten more tender as I aged...

 

[no704]

Just replaced the door actuator on my wife’s Tucson. Wore nitrile gloves removing and replacing the plastic covering the inside of the door. That sealant is horrible! I still ended up with a bit of it on my skin. Aceitone would bearly touch it.

 

[PhantomEB]

I constantly get in **** at work for not wearing gloves but they know I am trying more and more to comply. I even asked can I take some of those hyflex gloves home to see if it will help get me more cognizant to wear them…. they gave me the whole pack!

 

[dchawk81]

I have several cases of gloves, both nitrile and latex. Latex are cheaper and good enough for some tasks. Nitrile are resistant to more solvents and fluids.

Once they rip though it's f-it full send.

 

[The Cobbler]

I can't get used to wearing gloves when working on stuff. I like the real feel when touching stuff with bare skin . I will wear them if something is greasy, yukky etc . I try to remember to wear them when spray painting .
I use them when working with raw chicken & meat when mixing by hand

 

[dchawk81]

I can't get used to wearing gloves when working on stuff. I like the real feel when touching stuff with bare skin . I will wear them if something is greasy, yukky etc . I try to remember to wear them when spray painting .
I use them when working with raw chicken & meat when mixing by hand

Bruh. This ain't about being Snow White. This is about manly stuff like diving head first into a bucket of diesel fuel.

 

[johnre]

Latex for chemicals and solvents, or when something is extremely dirty or greasy.

Usually nothing for woodwork and mechanical work - it's a safety issue; I don't want to be pulled into spinning or moving mechanical parts, especially cutting tools. The only exception is handling unfinished framing lumber, where splinters can be an issue.

Think of it this way: For all the accidents you've heard of, how would gloves have helped avoid that particular injury?

 

[Miss the Pontiacs]

I’ll glove up for oily greasy jobs. At the lake all I had were some surgical gloves. I had really pinched/cut a couple fingers playing around with my paver stone saw lift assembly. Besides being a little painful the cuts were easy to get pretty dirty. I was doing the back of the cabin with Tyndal stone. The mortar and my most predominant fingers were catching hell even being double gloved. In the end I would tear off any fingers usable on the cast off gloves and placing on the sore digits. Then I would double glove but my digits would stay clean as I had as many as 5 layers of material on them

 

[Notgrownup]

I have them , I sell them at work so I get free gloves but I usually remember to use them after my hands are too dirty. Sometimes i remember before. For feel I like around 3 mil but for durability I lIke 5 mill

 

[sz0k30]

I hate working with gloves on, just doesn't feel right. I'd say at least 90% of my garage work is without gloves. If its metal work that might include sharp edges and the possibility of cuts, I'll put on leather gloves. If its something where I'm likely to get busted knuckles from smashing into things, again leather gloves. Oil & filter changes get latex gloves.

 

[jar944]

Yes 99% of the time. The other 1% is with mechanics/riding gloves.

 

[Fixr]

Back sometime in the 80s, I got tired of girlfriends saying "You're not touching me there with those disgusting dirty fingers" even after I'd scrubbed them with Varsol before using the Gojo with pumice. I also got tired of my skin being so dried out and irritated from all those chemicals and scrubbing. I think it was the Mac dealer who started carrying disposable latex gloves. Within a year the shop was buying nitrile by the case. When I changed careers and became an environmental field technician, nitrile gloves were required safety and contamination control procedure for lots of tasks. Ever since, I've worn disposable nitrile whenever I know I'm going to be handling dirty greasy parts or using solvents.

I also wear leather or mechanic's gloves most of the time when working on outdoor projects. I find splinters and dirt ground into cuts undesirable. As a result of all of that glove wearing over the decades, the backs of my hands look at least ten years younger than the tops of my forearms, and the hand skin is much less fragile.

 

[larry4406]

Back sometime in the 80s, I got tired of girlfriends saying "You're not touching me there with those disgusting dirty fingers" even after I'd scrubbed them with Varsol before using the Gojo with pumice. I also got tired of my skin being so dried out and irritated from all those chemicals and scrubbing. I think it was the Mac dealer who started carrying disposable latex gloves. Within a year the shop was buying nitrile by the case. When I changed careers and became an environmental field technician, nitrile gloves were required safety and contamination control procedure for lots of tasks. Ever since, I've worn disposable nitrile whenever I know I'm going to be handling dirty greasy parts or using solvents.

I also wear leather or mechanic's gloves most of the time when working on outdoor projects. I find splinters and dirt ground into cuts undesirable. As a result of all of that glove wearing over the decades, the backs of my hands look at least ten years younger than the tops of my forearms, and the hand skin is much less fragile.

Does she let you touch her there now?

 

[no704]

Was running “Drag Week” several years back. Pulled into a checkpoint one evening and my lower radiator hose unzipped about a foot long. Small town, auto parts store had just closed. Went to Ace hardware and bought a bicycle tube, a roll of packing tape (the kind with strings”, roll of duct tape, and a bottle of Gorilla glue. After putting all of this together I realized that I had a box of latex gloves that I should have worn. Was peeling that **** off my hands for days.
It did hold up for another 350 miles until I could get a new hose!

 

[4x4Pete]

I wear gloves when working on dirty stuff. Simple as that. It's easier to keep your hands presentable. I buy these at $11/ dozen, I wear them out and then throw them out. Much better than the Mechanic or Milwaukee brands. These might not last as long but at less than $1 a pair, I don't care.

 

[Mike65]

I never wear gloves when wrenching. I do not like the feel or can get a good grip on nuts, bolts & washers with gloves. That is what they make hand cleaner for.

 

[u3b3rg33k]

I wear gloves when working on dirty stuff. Simple as that. It's easier to keep your hands presentable. I buy these at $11/ dozen, I wear them out and then throw them out. Much better than the Mechanic or Milwaukee brands. These might not last as long but at less than $1 a pair, I don't care.

how do they compare to the milwaukee A1 cut gloves? i like working in those. they offer some protection from grease, my hands don't get cut up, and they breathe well.

if I'm actively working with grease/oil I'll use nitrile, otherwise i've probably got the cut gloves on.

 

[teknikfrog]

Nitrile gloves 100% of the time when working on mechanical stuff. I buy a case at a time and that lasts me a year. It's extremely low class to go out in public with grubbed up hands regardless of the health risks.

Actual heavy gloves only when working outside in the yard.

Any usage of the mill or other spinny devices is done barehanded.

 

[LWB]

Always wear gloves when using chemicals

Never use gloves when wrenching

Mostly wear gloves when doing yard work, firewood, framing, etc.

 

[john.k]

There is a similar glove with mesh and a rubber palm at the supermarket called "garden gloves"........used to be $2 a pr at times ........you dont get sweaty like other gloves ,and the rubber palm is OK if you dont dip them in diesel or gasoline............My hands were always black,and worse the backs of my hands always covered in scabs from tearing off skin on sharp things in confined spaces ..........When I was at the sandblasters ,I always had new leather 'riggers gloves' .....but they cost $10 a pr ,a bit much to buy them for home use.

 

[Old tool guy]

When I worked in Industrial Maintenance, I always wore a set of sized Leather Style baseball glove,

That looks like a typo. You wore a baseball glove in Maintenance?

 

[ATC]

I never use gloves (talking about nitrile/latex gloves). They are a pain in the ***, my hands sweat in them, I can't feel anything I'm touching, any grease gets spread around because you don't know where it is on your hand, they rip/tear, they are an expense I don't care to spend money on.
Having said that, I do use one glove when doing oil changes to pull the drain plug and the oil filter. Once the old filter is off, the glove comes off and I'm back to bare hands.

I do use mechanics gloves quite often...usually to keep from getting cut and scratched up on things. Handling chains, pieces of steel, etc...

 

[LopezBart]

I wear nitrile gloves for really greasy jobs like packing bearings, or anything involving nasty chemicals, etc. I wear leather work gloves for really rough stuff; I have some mechanic's gloves that have come in handy for medium-tough things. I cannot imagine trying to reassemble a carburetor w/ gloves of any sort on, though.

 

[mike93lx]

That looks like a typo. You wore a baseball glove in Maintenance?

Guessing he means a batters glove, not a catching mitt

 

[4x4Pete]

how do they compare to the milwaukee A1 cut gloves? i like working in those. they offer some protection from grease, my hands don't get cut up, and they breathe well.

if I'm actively working with grease/oil I'll use nitrile, otherwise i've probably got the cut gloves on.

They aren't cut type gloves, more of a rubber coated fabric glove. They offer some cut protection, but if I'm working with sharp or very hot objects, I switch to leather.

 

[john.k]

i worked 40 years on filth without gloves ,Im talking excavators,dozers ,forklifts ............then I had to get a job ,and they had riggers gloves ,good quality riggers gloves ....... one of my jobs was to issue protective gear...........and ,before you knew it ...I was wearing nice gloves .......no one commented .........so from that day on my hands were as clean and soft as DJTs...........no BS ,all the torn skin and scabs on the backs of my hands healed up,the black patches on my palms turned pink,my finger nails were clean .

 

[mike93lx]

I keep Milwaukee cut level 1's all over the place and use them frequently. When they get dirty, I just wash my hands in the sink with them on, and throw them away when they get holes. If it's something really messy, a couple boxes of nitrile are at the ready.

For winter, the cold weather Milwaukees are pretty great. I've had no problem building things like sheds and decks with them on

 

[cannuck]

I started a very long time ago working bare handed. Did a few years working in sub-Arctic on airplanes and froze fingers many times holding aluminum parts. Taught me the hard way to take better care of my hands. Main client for physical work over last 35 years grew to become VERY car careful about PPE and as a result I started some kind of fancy soft leather in their daily issue, kevlar when cutting gaskets (something I did a lot) and of course elec insul rated for voltage involved when i did any switching, grounding and isolation.

What really upped my game in home shop was having grandsons in there. Dad is a fire fighter and takes all PPE dead seriously and of course I have to set some kind of standard so nitrile for light or dirty stuff, leather for general work, washable cloth mechanic's for some work, thin welding for TIG and heavy welding for MIG. I will take gloves off for really fine work and have to remove them around machine tools when I have audience but admit I now improperly wear them sometimes on lathe and mill. Wife like me to have softer and cleaner hands than in years gone by.

From the freezing damage I need insulated gloves working outside, but in reality only good mittens can keep them warm.

 

[JSutter]

Every time I need new gloves, I'll try something different to find the right fit and durability. Working on cars, Mechanix Wear Nicklebacks are the best so far.

To keep disposable gloves lasting longer, I'll wear fingerless gloves over them.

Gloves are like socks and footwear, one type is not enough. They are situation dependent.

 

[Scotto]

I love these Harbor Freight gloves for most work (only $2.50/pair!). You have a ton of dexterity with them and the bottom gray part holds up really well. For really greasy jobs I use nitrile and rough outside stuff, leather.

 

[cmandp]

I don't wear gloves as much as I should. I have started wearing disposable gloves for oil changes, when finishing wood, working with plumbers putty, etc. around most any chemicals that aren't good for your skin. When doing yard clean up I wear leather or similar heavy gloves to keep from getting poked, stabbed or cut but also to keep from getting poison ivy.

For any vehicle/ general mechanical work I tend not to so I can better feel what I'm doing. Also I don't wear gloves around any rotating machinery, drill press, lathe, mill, table saw, etc.

I actually wore out a pair of mechanics gloves while doing all the brake hard lines on my truck. But it was winter and it was cold so I had to do something differently than I normally do there.

On another similar note I have started wearing coveralls when doing anything dirty. It keeps the oil change smell off of my clothes and wood dust off.

 

[joel63]

Every time I use Anti - Seize I wished I had used gloves.