Gloves to work on your jeep?
#16
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i use GTP (gloves that perform). yes, it's an actual company. they rival the mechanics gloves that you pay a premium for.
they have a whole line of gloves. these aren't exactly the ones i use, but i use mine for riding my mountain bike or my harley, as well as for work and wrenching. great gloves at a great price.
they have a whole line of gloves. these aren't exactly the ones i use, but i use mine for riding my mountain bike or my harley, as well as for work and wrenching. great gloves at a great price.
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There is no replacement for caution and proper safe tool use methods or alternative tool type application to prevent injuries with gloves or without gloves. The first habit would be never push...always pull. I have tried wearing gloves and found that I was spending more time taking them off and on to start bolts without dropping them ten times and having to chase them down, or because they kept getting snagged up on stuff all the time. A careful assessment of my situation and cautious tool use habits have kept me out of trouble and major injury free for a very very long time now. But if one feels safer then they should by all means use them!
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i wear rubber nitrile when handing anything internal engine. otherwise no gloves for the same reasons bugout mentioned. good thing i didn’t make a full post about it or he’d think i was stalking him.
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I didn't realize you were having trouble viewing all the replies and the coincidences kept getting stranger and stranger. It was starting to feel like I was being plagiarized. Lol
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I worked in a paper mill for 42 years. Learned to read MSDS sheets. The cancer thing is no joke. fluids coming out of the motor are worse than the ones we put in. Antifreeze is about the worst.
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There is no replacement for caution and proper safe tool use methods or alternative tool type application to prevent injuries with gloves or without gloves. The first habit would be never push...always pull. I have tried wearing gloves and found that I was spending more time taking them off and on to start bolts without dropping them ten times and having to chase them down, or because they kept getting snagged up on stuff all the time. A careful assessment of my situation and cautious tool use habits have kept me out of trouble and major injury free for a very very long time now. But if one feels safer then they should by all means use them!
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Hobby wrenchers might not feel the need to wear gloves but if you've ever turned wrenches for a living, you wear gloves when you know you should. It's ridiculous that there's this notion that you're a sissy if you wear gloves. It's like the whole eye protection thing too. Well guess what? It's not cool when you get metal in your eye or even lose your vision. It's not cool to cut and destroy your hands. Bleeding and injuries are an inconvenience when I'm trying to get stuff done. I'll take a few extra seconds to find my ppe for whatever job I'm doing.
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Hobby wrenchers might not feel the need to wear gloves but if you've ever turned wrenches for a living, you wear gloves when you know you should. It's ridiculous that there's this notion that you're a sissy if you wear gloves. It's like the whole eye protection thing too. Well guess what? It's not cool when you get metal in your eye or even lose your vision. It's not cool to cut and destroy your hands. Bleeding and injuries are an inconvenience when I'm trying to get stuff done. I'll take a few extra seconds to find my ppe for whatever job I'm doing.
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I actually have a pair of heat sleeves . I worked at quite a few events where we would install aftemarket exhausts on mustangs, camaro's, vettes, etc. and a lot of these cars were still hot. So the heat sleeves were a great investment.
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I was soldering an over-head copper pipe a few years back. I had the gloves but short sleeve shirt. Sure enough, I big glob of hot solder found my forearm, like it was on a mission. I still have the scar. Luckily it wasn't my face. Lesson learned.
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things like this anger me because if you wanted it to happen (major money must be offered) then it wouldnt happen at all
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Automotive induced scarring happens thats just wrenchin life for ya.
but when you got a few grand in tattoos to protect its a bit of a different story lol