Working on my cars with gloves on?

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jbharris

jbharris

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The past couple months I have beat the hell out of my hands. Currently I have a blacked thumb nail, a chunk out of my finger and a bunch of scratches. I put a water pump on my Duramax and it looked like I was fighting a bobcat. Putting the seat slides on my 66 Barracuda is what cost me the chunk of finger. So today I broke down and a couple different pairs of Mechanix Gloves. It may sound weird but I don't know if I can get used to working with them.
 
My hands are the same as yours. I always go in the garage with the intent to wear them and at some point take them off and forget to put them back on. Then I realize that they are off and sure as hell I've managed to remove a bit more skin!
 
I hate wearing gloves. But something thin enough to give you dexterity will not prevent something like "black thumb." So far as chemicals, I have bad luck with the nitrile or what they called? Too many chemicals dissolve them, or I rip them open on a sharp "something" and then the chemicals/ cleaners "go on in" LOL

As Greg said, "too old to start now"
 
I wear 9mil nitrile gloves about 80% of the time unless I'm working on a hot engine, then I revert to mechanics gloves. My hands aren't quite so beat up these days doing it this way.
 
About 4 years ago I started wearing just rubber mechanic gloves.. it's a practice you have to commit to. When you get them dirty or ripped or have a bite of your sandwich you have to put a new ones on before you do anything. I've got into the practice of it and start dirty Jobs and end them with the same clean hands...
 
After working every day as a lineman for 28 years, and wearing rubber gloves up to my elbows that are insulated for 20K volts, that also have thick leather glove protectors on them.........I never even notice nitril gloves or Mechanix gloves when fooling with the cars! I have a mild case of psoriasis, and it really only affects my fingernails. A few of them are loose from the tip, to about halfway back to my cuticles. I wear gloves to keep grease out from under those ones, because it's hard to get it out. I finally got caught using my wifes tooth brush to scrub my nails!

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Surely y'all know I'm kidding! I'm still alive typing.....lol. :realcrazy:
 
After many years of hard labor and hard gripping my hands are in pretty bad shape. I wear mechanics gloves if I have to really torque on something I occasionally wear nitrile if working with something really greasy or toxic. I still do a lot of work with my bare hands for dexterity purposes and found if you cut the tip of the thumb off and the tip of the index finger on mechanics gloves it will really help with more finite work
 
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I should wear them too

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I wear nitrile, the gloveworks ones seem about the best so far.
And leather gloves for the risky stuff. I get the beat up hands,been busting knuckles for 30 years.
 
I've been wearing gloves most of the time for a while now. Nitrile if I'm messing with chemicals, mechanic's gloves otherwise. I had been having some skin issues with my hands. Not so much anymore. Plus when doing certain things the thicker gloves provide a little cushion.
 
I use the blue harbor freight gloves all the time. They are so cheap I change them often. No protection from cuts and scrapes, but keep your hands clean.
 
I wear nitrile gloves when I need clean hands later in the day, for gasket surfaces or if anything will be f'ed up by dirty hands, in the summer time not rule gloves suck ***. honestly I love wearing the smooth leather gloves for everything other than automotive.
I don't beat the **** out of my hands like I did when I was younger luckily. Dirty hands, cuts & scrapes plus brakleen, no thanks
 
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I wear gloves most of the time anymore when doing anything on my car. I wear 7 mm Nitrile gloves most of the time. It sure is nice not to get the hands so dirty. Other times, I wear some sort of Mechanics glove. Once you get used to them, they are fine.
 
I bought these yesterday a friend recommended. Also picked up the original versions Mechanix Gloves.

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Unconventional said:
Time will tell. For many years I worked on iron that was about 350°. You get used to gloves real fast.
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I've spent most of my career working in freezers and on freezer equipment. Those gloves keep my hands warm but you can't work in them. I take them on and off all the time.

JDMopar said:
After working every day as a lineman for 28 years, and wearing rubber gloves up to my elbows that are insulated for 20K volts, that also have thick leather glove protectors on them.........I never even notice nitril gloves or Mechanix gloves when fooling with the cars! I have a mild case of psoriasis, and it really only affects my fingernails. A few of them are loose from the tip, to about halfway back to my cuticles. I wear gloves to keep grease out from under those ones, because it's hard to get it out. I finally got caught using my wifes tooth brush to scrub my nails!
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I hate having to wear our arc flash gear. The double gloves suck and I'm glad don't do it often... almost never since I have guys to do that for me.
 
Working in the chemistry field for 30 years taught me to have the proper glove for the proper solvent/chemical. I have transferred that discipline to working on my cars. So I have pair of knuckle cushioned mechanics gloves, a thinner pair of mechanic’s gloves with tactile finger tips and palm, cotton based gloves that the bottom of the gloves have been coated with nitrile rubber (similar to the ones jbharris posted), disposable nitrile gloves, and a pair of neoprene rubber gloves. The only ones that I have to replace over time is the disposable nitrile gloves.
It may seem like over kill but I found out the hard way that no singular type of glove is perfect for every type of automotive job.
 
It's only been the last few years that I've been wearing gloves when working on a car. Usually the nitrile ones, I'll go through several of them in a day, occasionally I use the Mechanix type of glove. For decades I went bare handed no matter the task or chemical, gas, diesel, solvents, grease. Now my hands are in rough shape.
 
Two separate occasions I've removed my gloves hoping to see my fingers were still attached as they should be. They got beat up pretty bad, only one broken bone though. When the Dr that repairs that patched together digit says "Now about 2 o'clock tomorrow that pain killer is going to wear off. You're going to need these." and gives you a fist full of 1000mg Naproxin, don't forget them at home and run off to enjoy 38 Special at the County Fair :lol:.
 
Double glove flash gear? We got triple! Cotton gloves, then rubber gauntlets and then leather gauntlets over them...They are so bulky there is little you can do actually wearing them. Only time I will ever wear them is to save someone or remove an energized line off a car or something. I'm just a phone repairman so we need to be "electrically aware" but we never mess with that stuff. If my Electrical hazard proximity test meter beeps, I'm out of there. Service will just have to wait on Edison fixing their **** first. Im not dying for someones phone service. I wear crappy blue disposeable gloves or the better green nitrile ones when I can get them but they dont last long with oil on them. Rebuilt a jap carb yesterday and dropped a bunch of little jets while wearing these things. Found everything but only after I actually stepped on the last lost jet with my sneakers! hiding in a clump of grass in a driveway crack. I had 2 more core carbs so nothing I could no replace.
 
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