Topic: blue nitrile gloves?

[oldk6guy]

let me start off by saying that i am a 29 year old male.  i would consider myself a young man, even though i mostly act like a child.  my dad is a mans man and so is his dad.  he gets out there in the freezing wisconsin winters and bow hunts deer, he ice fishes, and he runs a steel fabrication/machine shop.  tough as nails my old man is.  well, that's how i was raised.  if your finger nails are clean you must be a women.  now im not saying that all men with office jobs are nancys but what is the deal with these blue gloves to work on an engine?  seriously every time i watch a video of a guy working on an engine the first thing he does is put on the blue nitrile gloves.  really!?  are you afraid of hurting the engine? you wont. are you afraid of getting your hands dirty?  it'll wash off. when and where did this trend start and how did it become acceptable?  I'm an ASE certified mechanic and i can PROUDLY say my hands get f'ing dirty!!!
that's all.

[motocyconomad]

I use them for sex they keep the finger nails from scratching and some have a little texture spot on the finger tips ...bust em out on the ol G-spotter they love it...

If you got cut up hands they are ok for the bike otherwise I just keep em in the bedroom

[Elan]

I think they are great if its going to be an obvious dirty job, like priming the oil pump, or spraying paints.  Mainly because after a nights work, I have to go into the office the next morning. But stuff doesnt just wash off either, your skin is porous, it absorbs.  Hands may even look all clean , but chemicals are getting into your system.

In the other hand, your your wearing gloves to adjust points or something, theres a problem

[Damfino]

Must be a slow day in Wisconsin...

[kirkn]

I wear 'em for cleaning old carbs.  That varnish smell don't wash off for DAYS, no matter what you use!

[simon#42]

people started using them when they linked used engine oil with skin cancer . i wear them all the time , cancer doesn't care how hard you think you are .

[mrbreeze]

Good points all around. I'm an auto tech also and I hate wearing those gloves. Mainly when you are wearing them tearing into something and you have to go sign something or write or read. Then you have to take em off which can be a bit of a chore in itself. Then usually you go get a new pair on and go back to work only to have to take em off again minutes later. How many times have you really worn them and completed your task without being interupted or some other need to remove them? Besides....I could never get used to the feel of them anyways. On the other hand....I do like the idea of protection from certain chemicals. I really don't think used motor oil is gonna kill you unless you don't wash up after exposure. They do have this spray on stuff that we use and it doesn't interfere like the gloves do. To each their own guess..............(Nancy!!!.....I like that!!!....funny stuff!!!).

[Damfino]

You weak-wristed nancy boy!!!

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[Gordon]

I think they are great if its going to be an obvious dirty job, like priming the oil pump, or spraying paints.  Mainly because after a nights work, I have to go into the office the next morning. But stuff doesnt just wash off either, your skin is porous, it absorbs.  Hands may even look all clean , but chemicals are getting into your system.

In the other hand, your your wearing gloves to adjust points or something, theres a problem

+1

I wear them when doing the greasier/dirtier jobs.  There are any number of reasons that I need to keep my hands relatively clean, and it's far easier and faster to peel off a pair of gloves than scrubbing up every time I need to have them clean.  I have two small children that need almost constant attention, using the phone, using the computer, etc. 

I work with food for a living, in full view of the very people who will be eating it.  Sometimes, no matter how hard you scrub you can't get your hands perfectly spotless for a couple of days after some of the greasier jobs without gloves.  Even if my hands are technically sanitary, I still feel it's unprofessional for them to be grease-stained and cut up from garage work.

I also don't like the thought of all those chemicals unnecessarily soaking into my skin.  I do my best to avoid putting a lot of poisonous chemicals into my body via the food I eat, so why would I then go and willingly soak up petrochemicals into my skin?     

[motocyconomad]

I'm with you Gordon...but the medical grade ones are good for sex too. Textured finger tips!

[Gordon]

I'm with you Gordon...but the medical grade ones are good for sex too. Textured finger tips!

I'd like to see the look on my wife's face if I snapped on a pair of surgical gloves before touching her.

[ZanVooden]

I grew up working in a shop with my dad. Never wore gloves unless you're torching something or sandblasting and then its heavy leather.

I cant stand the feeling of those gloves. I occasionally get a couple comments of my hands are still a little dirty when I'm in the office, but for the most part people in my office see that I work on things and ask me to help them on their car or ask for advice.

I dont care if my hands are greasy from packing bearings or degreesing an engine. I just wash up and scrub when I'm done.

[wardenerd]

I have several doctor friends who have been using them for 30 years.  Aparently patients like clean nice smelling hands

[dave500]

lets see a picture of your hands thread?

[flybox1]

I have several doctor friends who have been using them for 30 years.  Aparently patients like clean nice smelling hands

would that be Dr. Jellyfinger     

I never minded working without gloves, in the yard, on the bike, where ever, but i have a tendancy to get splits on the ends of my thumbs.  id rather burn my forearm on a hot header than continue to get these.  most so bad that only superglue can keep them from getting worse.
now i wear those mechanix gloves for pretty much everything...

[Duke McDukiedook]

You using the whole fist, Doc?

[CycleRanger]

I grew up up watching/helping my Grandfather and my Uncle use gasoline and worse to clean any and everything and I used to do the same back when I was younger.

But nowadays I wear the nitrile gloves about half the time.
It's just easier, especially with the really greasy jobs, to clean up afterwards.
Or if you have to grab the cell phone when you're up to your armpits in engine!

I've worked in the semiconductor industry for about 25 years so wearing gloves is no big deal for me.

Still, there's nothing better than slashing open a grease-blackened hand and having to go scrub with Comet before you can bandage it! 

[Gordon]

Times change, we learn more about the consequences of what previous generations have been doing, and we alter the way we do things.  That's the way it's always been.

Your grandfather and maybe father may have also smoked two packs of cigarettes a day and ate fried eggs and bacon every day for breakfast.  That doesn't mean that you also have to do the same just to be a real man. 

I work hard every day at my job, and even harder every day at home for my wife and my children.  That's what makes a man, not how dirty your hands are. 

[Roach Carver]

nitrile almost all the time. If I dont, then I have to spend a good five or ten min cleaning them. A box of nitrile gloves costs about 6 bucks. worth it to me, and not because I am afraid to get dirty. I LOVE GETTING DIRTY.

[74cb750]

When I am cleaning carbs with chemicals
or other nasty stuff I use them now.
Didn't use to, but a former co-worker used to eork changing oil
in a shop and developed some really mean aches/pains traced back
to that job.

[333]

You using the whole fist, Doc?

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[Damfino]

You using the whole fist, Doc?

"Moooon River"

Thank ya Doc, ever serve time?