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Fuel resistant gloves

chuck hahn

chuck hahn

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Seeing we are constantly rebuilding or otherwise maintaining carbs from time to time, I was wondering what thin gloves such as medical gloves folks use for chemicals that wont melt on your hands. Carbs spray, brake cleaner, and Acetone are big use chems for me. Don't want any bulky crap that makes holding small parts a problem.
 
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Saw those at our local store and thought them to be too bulky for me. If I had thin surgical style gloves that would hold their own I would be in heaven.
 
The 7 mil nitrile gloves from Harbor Freight are good. They don't last indefinitely in harsh chemicals but long enough for most projects.
 
Nitrile is about the most common one for resistance to gas, grease etc. It will hold up to brake cleaner and acetone but not MEK or toluene. Any vinyl or rubber surgical glove is useless when it comes to the above except grease.

I get mine at Costco, great deal and the box has 75 instead of the typical 50 pairs per box.
 
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Saw those at our local store and thought them to be too bulky for me. If I had thin surgical style gloves that would hold their own I would be in heaven.
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The 5 mil also works, but doesn't last and tears fairly easy. My problem is I'm a sweater and when I use gloves my hands can breath and in short time my gloves are filled.
 
I've found that nitrile gloves need a little time to warm up -- they do feel stiff and odd at first, but after they warm up and flex a bit, they conform to your hands pretty well and your sense of touch is not compromised much.

The HF gloves are OK, but there are premium brands that have a nice grippy texture, which gives much better traction.

If you just can't stand gloves at all, there's a barrier cream you can rub in to your hands before you start that helps sort of "fill up" your pores so that dirt and nasties don't sink in to your skin quite as badly. Not perfect, but it's helpful. It may also help to add a little extra corn starch or talc baby powder to your hands before donning gloves.

A lot of the trick to using gloves and other PPE is just getting used to it. Make yourself use it when you need to, and after a while it's second nature. It really doesn't get in the way once you adjust.
 
My concern was based on the carb s spray and other nasty stuff being absorbed through the skin. I hate gloves and haven't used them. May be a little late after all these years as far as any internal cancer causing build ups, but the skin on my finger sure dries and cracks and I really should have been proactive way before this.

Guess when the pain gets great enough........................
 
No, better late than never. Just keeping the black crap off your hands saves the handcleaner step if nothing else.
and I avoid the really wild miracle "concoctions" that purport to magically clean things. ...I'm in the minority apparently but paint thinner and alcohols and pipecleaners and rags and the odd welder tip cleaner do as well as most of the wizardry when it comes to how the bike runs.... What they can't "clean" probably doesn't matter.... AND Modern gas has injector cleaners and so forth in it to burn off the rest.
 
Nitrile gloves. Add Xylene to your list of gnarly chems and all the other gloves don't matter. Crap penetrates carb rubbers in minutes...hate to see what it does to my hands or crappy latex gloves.

Been in the Army for 20 yrs and the previous PPE comment is legit. Wear it or you'll be sad. Eye pro, gloves, long sleeves, long pants. I dont even own shorts or sandals anymore, because too many things I do without thinking will tear me to pieces.
 
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Can't add much about type of gloves but when it comes to dealing with dried and cracked skin, O'keffe's Working hands hand cream has worked great for me.
 
I've been using barrier cream for years, but sometimes just forget to put it on when I haven't been in the workshop doing dirty and/or oily stuff for a while.
Ladies compliment me on my soft hands. :)
Sheesh, not every son of toil is horny-handed.
 
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