Does anybody do wrenching without gloves & why?

[cvairwerks]

I also use them with using bench grinder. They are thin enough to offer some protection but will tear before pulling you into the wheel.

I've seen nitrile gloves stretch more than foot before failing when caught in or on something. I've had to reach in and cut a nitrile glove to get a coworker's hand free when his glove got caught on a piece of structure. Never assume they will tear if caught on or in something.

 

[Fixr]

I've seen nitrile gloves stretch more than foot before failing when caught in or on something. I've had to reach in and cut a nitrile glove to get a coworker's hand free when his glove got caught on a piece of structure. Never assume they will tear if caught on or in something.

Were those the thin ones, like 5 mil or less? In my experience a couple of miles make a big difference in how easily they tear.

 

[cvairwerks]

Were those the thin ones, like 5 mil or less? In my experience a couple of miles make a big difference in how easily they tear.

We get random 3, 4, or 5 mil ones at work. The company buys them by the pallet loads based on price for the number of boxes they get at a time.
I've had 3 mil ones get wound up in socket extensions and hand rolling drill chucks and not tear before. If it's rotating, I won't wear gloves anywhere near it. Stopped is a different thing.

 

[Fixr]

We get random 3, 4, or 5 mil ones at work. The company buys them by the pallet loads based on price for the number of boxes they get at a time.
I've had 3 mil ones get wound up in socket extensions and hand rolling drill chucks and not tear before. If it's rotating, I won't wear gloves anywhere near it. Stopped is a different thing.

I've never even seen 3 mil nitrile gloves. I would expect them to tear really easily. Learned something new.

 

[cvairwerks]

I've never even seen 3 mil nitrile gloves. I would expect them to tear really easily. Learned something new.

https://www.amazon.com/3-mil-nitrile-gloves/s?k=3+mil+nitrile+gloves&tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[Fixr]

Amazon.com : 3 mil nitrile gloves

I didn't doubt you. I just hadn't run across them.

 

[isb cornbinder]

Our shop had visitors from the Orient. The supervisor warned us to be on good behavior. Well, that is not how I think, Just before the visitors arrived, I stretched a nitril glove over me head after fastening a small diameter plastic tub inside the glove. When the guests came to my workstation, I blew the glove up the fingers looked like a roster's comb. I made crowing sounds like a rooster. The visitors laughed and slowly backed away. Sorry, no picture.
This happened 5 years before I retired, I retired in 2004. I am amused that no one remembers something I fixed, but every silly moment is my reputation.

 

[Fixr]

Our shop had visitors from the Orient. The supervisor warned us to be on good behavior. Well, that is not how I think, Just before the visitors arrived, I stretched a nitril glove over me head after fastening a small diameter plastic tub inside the glove. When the guests came to my workstation, I blew the glove up the fingers looked like a roster's comb. I made crowing sounds like a rooster. The visitors laughed and slowly backed away. Sorry, no picture.
This happened 5 years before I retired, I retired in 2004. I am amused that no one remembers something I fixed, but every silly moment is my reputation.

Well, there's doing your job. And then there is being frighteningly hilarious. And memorable. Love it!

 

[roc_on_the_rocks]

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.

LOL... I've been told the exact same, in a quite threatening way ! So I rapidly adopted gloves. I was infamous for being late on my dates, which often followed some big thrashing in the garage and wasn't aways super thorough when scrubbing under my nails.
I have cleaner fingers now, but I'm often still late on dates

Boy... back then nasty carb cleaning chemicals were readily available (I can't remember the names) and my hands would wrinkle and peel all over. They probably didn't do much good for my lungs and neurons either. I wish I knew better, it is unfortunately that we were not born with an User Manual.

 

[Fixr]

LOL... I've been told the exact same, in a quite threatening way ! So I rapidly adopted gloves. I was infamous for being late on my dates, which often followed some big thrashing in the garage and wasn't aways super thorough when scrubbing under my nails.
I have cleaner fingers now, but I'm often still late on dates

Boy... back then nasty carb cleaning chemicals were readily available (I can't remember the names) and my hands would wrinkle and peel all over. They probably didn't do much good for my lungs and neurons either. I wish I knew better, it is unfortunately that we were not born with an User Manual.

I recall when somehow the basket fell off the hook in the air powered reciprocating Safety Kleen carb cleaner, and without thinking, I reached in to pull it out. Ouch. I never did that again. It also really smelled bad on my skin.

Once I got smarter about solvents, nasty grease and gloves, the ladies seemed to get a lot more interested and cooperative. Even enthusiastic.

 

[Kail]

I like to rawdog it most of the time so I can feel.

But, if it's particularly messy I use Nitrile, if I am looking for some abrasion resistance but still need some tactile I use Maxiflex. If I am doing heavy stuff I have Tillman gloves of different thicknesses.

I don't always like gloves though.

 

[smackey05]

Only time I wear gloves is if I'm doing a messy oil change or it is freezing out and I'm trying to keep my hands warm.

 

[Pen & Wrench]

My answer is: I don't wear gloves when wrenching because I never did when I was a kid, maybe I should think about it. We used to also wash our hands by opening the carburetor drain on the H Farmall tractor, and wash the shop grime off with leaded gasoline, taught to me by my Dad. I don't do that anymore, maybe I should wear gloves for at least some things.

 

[gtae07]

Nitrile for oil, chemicals, etc. but otherwise no. Plus, I'm usually working on the airplane rather than cars, so a lot of the hardware is small and requires some fine dexterity.

 

[westracing01]

Nope. Gloves only used when welding, grinding or otherwise making sparks. Also when handling sharp or really hot/cold items.

Spinning wrenches, doing electrical, plumbing, carpentry, etc, never.

Never used gloves on the racecar. Lugnuts get damn warm in race conditions.

 

[fitter30]

40 years running hvac commercial and industrial service. Ever lose a sock in the drier? Well im left handed your socks are with a 100s of left gloves maybe a few rights. Glad my boss never complained ( about gloves)

 

[j keith w]

I don't know if I've responded to this already (I've been away a while) - I prefer latex over nitrile for dexterity, and when I had techs who complained about wearing gloves (it was mandatory in my shop), they usually were wearing sizes that were way too large - they should be skin tight, no wrinkles. - or you will have dexterity issues.

 

[Hobby_Man22]

I use gloves when greasing stuff because there is no way I can keep clean hands without them..

 

[Hobby_Man22]

Last time I wore gloves it felt like I cut my finger, but couldn't tell because I had a glove on.

 

[Fixr]

So, all you guys who refuse to wear gloves while working on greasy abrasive acidic caustic stuff: How do your girlfriends or boyfriends like you smearing that stuff on their personal private parts? Does carburetor cleaner burning their mucous membranes turn them on a lot? Do they get hot when you rub stinky blatantly obvious carcinogens like toluene on them? Or even just wheel bearing grease mixed with dust?

If so, don't worry about wearing gloves. But please wear a condom.

 

[GX460DIYguy]

So, all you guys who refuse to wear gloves while working on greasy abrasive acidic caustic stuff: How do your girlfriends or boyfriends like you smearing that stuff on their personal private parts? Does carburetor cleaner burning their mucous membranes turn them on a lot? Do they get hot when you rub stinky blatantly obvious carcinogens like toluene on them? Or even just wheel bearing grease mixed with dust?

If so, don't worry about wearing gloves. But please wear a condom.

Ever heard of soap and a scrub brush? Maybe it’s my lack of good looks or the pissed off look on my face all the time, but I’ve never had to stop mid oil change to reach down a woman’s pants and tickle her fancy. I’ll wear leather gloves when working on fences or clearing brush and I’ll sometimes throw gloves on if I’ve already got a bad cut on my hands when working with automotive fluids, but I’m not wearing them for everything. My wife loves my hands just fine as long as my nails aren’t sharp.

 

[DGersic]

Ever heard of soap and a scrub brush?

Back when I got greasy turning wrenches for money, my hands were stained black. No amount of soap or scrubbing would remove the stains, no matter how “clean” they were.

It wasn’t a lack of being clean, but they didn’t look clean.

 

[Fixr]

Back when I got greasy turning wrenches for money, my hands were stained black. No amount of soap or scrubbing would remove the stains, no matter how “clean” they were.

It wasn’t a lack of being clean, but they didn’t look clean.

I could scrub my fingers ****** before I learned how to simply keep that nasty stuff out from under my fingernails in the first place

 

[Fixr]

Ever heard of soap and a scrub brush? Maybe it’s my lack of good looks or the pissed off look on my face all the time, but I’ve never had to stop mid oil change to reach down a woman’s pants and tickle her fancy. I’ll wear leather gloves when working on fences or clearing brush and I’ll sometimes throw gloves on if I’ve already got a bad cut on my hands when working with automotive fluids, but I’m not wearing them for everything. My wife loves my hands just fine as long as my nails aren’t sharp.

Soap and a scrub brush don't remove the nasty solvents that burn tender mucous membranes. Didn't take much at all for me to learn that lesson. Keep them off of your fingers in the first place.

 

[Fixr]

Soap and a scrub brush don't remove the nasty solvents that burn tender mucous membranes. Didn't take much at all for me to learn that lesson. Keep them off of your fingers in the first place.

And I've never shoved my fingers down a woman's pants when I was doing an oil change. That's downright creepy.

 

[GX460DIYguy]

Soap and a scrub brush don't remove the nasty solvents that burn tender mucous membranes. Didn't take much at all for me to learn that lesson. Keep them off of your fingers in the first place.

I’ve never had complaints after simply washing myself up after the jobs done. I’m sure there’d be plenty of mechanics wives complaining on social media these days if it was that big of a deal.

 

[Fixr]

I’ve never had complaints after simply washing myself up after the jobs done. I’m sure there’d be plenty of mechanics wives complaining on social media these days if it was that big of a deal.

OK. You go with that.

 

[CraigStu]

I spent 20 yrs as a Lexus dealer tech. They provided us w/ gloves and I wore them. The biggest issue I had was sweat in the summer. Take the gloves off and try putting them back on 5 min later. Sweat has evaporated just right to go from wet and slippery to sticky enough glove will not go back on. I often had a pair or 2 sitting flat on a shop towel drying out so I could get them back on. Average use was a box of 100 per week. I have been retired for 12 yrs now and get my gloves at HF and wear them for 90% of work in the garage. Being old we all dry out and washing my hands w/ soap and water several times per day to get them clean also makes my skin feel like old about to crack leather.

 

[gordyzx9r]

If I'm using chemicals, adhesives, caulks, sealants, etc. I'm putting on some nitrile gloves...I keep a box with 100 or so nearby in the garage. Other than that, if I'm working in the yard, the garage, or the shop I am always wearing cut resistant gloves. Superior Brand makes a cut level 9 glove that is really thin, leaves with you really good finger/manual dexterity, and it's touch screen compatible.