Gloves

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

> I cringe when I see photo's of people in the shop in sandals.

Hmm, tilting vice slid off the vacuum yesterday, landed with a thump and rolled over onto my crocs…

Do as I say, not as I do

Neil

[JonParticipant @jon]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 31/12/2015 18:57:11:

> I cringe when I see photo's of people in the shop in sandals.

Neil

Next they'll be wearing latex on feet.

You have no feel with any type of glove and feel is everything. Especially filing, polishing and grinding however hard it may be not to get pinkies dirty or burnt, it can also be highly dangerous having a lesser feel for whats going on. I do it for a living and rarely get splinters perhaps once every two months.

Manual lifting granted ie steel bars in grubby oil and such like.

Is it just me, why do most of the youtube videos from US have people wearing latex.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

> Is it just me, why do most of the youtube videos from US have people wearing latex.

Perhaps you switched off parental controls by mistake?

Neil

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 31/12/2015 18:57:11:

> I cringe when I see photo's of people in the shop in sandals.

Hmm, tilting vice slid off the vacuum yesterday, landed with a thump and rolled over onto my crocs…

Do as I say, not as I do

Neil

Guilty as charged also.

Santa brought me a nice pair of proper steel-toed safety boots this year. Came after I picked up the Drummond top slide and turned it over to make sure there was no swarf on the base before re-installing it. But the toolpost was not secured and fell straight on to my soft leather desert boot. Youch!!

But can't wear rubber/nitrile gloves here in the heat. They sweat up and get all squelchy straight away. I think the reason we see so many on US youtube is comes from the concern that used motor oil is carcinogenic so not a good idea to slop around in it too much.

[clogsParticipant @clogs]

Hi all and a Happy New Year,

for those people with a skin condition….I really suffer with a dry cracking skin (all my life)…have tried just about everything to help as I never use gloves except 4 welding…..but nothing works for long…

a farmer friend suggested that I try cow teat cream, used 4 sore teats due to milking and calf's……

it does say not 4 humans but tried anyway and it works a treat…… been using it for about 5 years with no female side effects….hahaha…. I can only recommend it…….I only use it when my hands get sore NOT all the time…..

it's not expensive and a small tube lasts forever…..

tara, clogs

[geoff walker 1Participant @geoffwalker1]

Santa brought me a nice pair of proper steel-toed safety boots this year. Came after I picked up the Drummond top slide and turned it over to make sure there was no swarf on the base before re-installing it. But the toolpost was not secured and fell straight on to my soft leather desert boot. Youch!! Hi Pete, Is the top slide ok?

Hny Pete, see you in March, Hope your drums ok when I get there! sounds like lathe abuse to me, try to keep it one piece!!!!

Will be in touch via email soon

best regards geoff

[Rik ShawParticipant @rikshaw]

I wear the thin disposable type of glove most of the time in my workshop and thick foam slip on croc lookalikes on my feet which I have found give reasonable protection against falling lumps. However, swarf is readily embedded in the soles and is just as easily removed when I forget and walk on a house carpet while still wearing them.

Last time I was in COSTCO they had boxes of 100 gloves for £3.60 and last week either ALDI or LIDL ( I can't remember which) had them at about £3.60 as well.

Happy New Year all

Rik

[John MilliganParticipant @johnmilligan78347]

Always taught to use barrier cream as an apprentice 30 years ago and have gone back to using it now once I started tinkering with cars and engineering again. Have got some blue latex gloves but sweat like billyo in them, lose some feeling and they rip too easy when struggling under a Volvo manhandling a gearbox! John

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

For handling RSJs, and pruning roses, leather work gloves. When I was wee, so my mum said, I used to come running in to her in the house after I got my hands dirty, mummy, wash hands, and later in life I decided that it would be an aircraft mechanic, rather than a motor mechanic, on the assumption that if it flies it's not going to be so dirty, I went into agricultural aviation, that's dirty, but no gloves then or now in the workshop.

Ian S C

[HOWARDTParticipant @howardt]

The only time I ever wore gloves was away from anything rotating. Even then it was only if there was a lot of oil about. In all my engineering life toe tectors were always worn with overalls.

These days even barrier cream is frowned upon as it can harbour more problems than it is meant to prevent.

[Gordon WParticipant @gordonw]

I never use gloves or barrier cream. For those of us who suffer from dry and cracked skin I would recommend Lanolin, natural oil from sheep. It can be difficult to find nowadays, I now get it off the net. Works well but the proper stuff has a slight smell.

[egaParticipant @ega]

I swear by PR88 but have a feeling that it is responsible for the damage to the paint job on my Super Seven (which was spray painted with Myford's touch up paint).

I do find gloves useful when heavy lifting and sometimes resort to a waist brace rather like the one that Stirling Moss used to wear.

[Russell EberhardtParticipant @russelleberhardt48058]

Posted by John Stevenson on 31/12/2015 11:59:39afety is not embedded in a set of rules and regulations, it should be embedded in your own mind. You and only you are responsible for your safety.

Absolutely! Think before you act

I must admit to occasionally working in shorts and sandals due to the hot weather in this part of the world but if I do I am especially careful and automatically consider what might go wrong.

Did once drop the vernier calipers on my bare foot, point first of course however my foot prevented damage to the calipers .

Russell.

[Dinosaur EngineerParticipant @dinosaurengineer]

"Way back when" I did a 5 year mechanical engineering apprenticeship in a Co. that did lots of large iron casting machining . Without exception all the guys in the M/C shop ( millers , planers, vertical turning M/Cs, turners etc.) never wore any sort of gloves. Their hands, arms and faces showed extensive black C.I. ingrained dust that would not wash off despite using carbolic soap and vigorous scrubbing with brushes. Barrier creams were unheard of then. Despite this, none of the machinists had any visible hand injuries. On reflection I think this was due to the non-wearing of hand gloves.

As training mechanical engineers, we were given a very thorough training with 9 months full time at a local technical coll.and were expected to reach HND/HNC standard thro' day and evening courses We served about 6 months in each dept. and had many tales to tell ! Happy days!

 

Edited By Dinosaur Engineer on 06/01/2016 16:40:49

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

Wore gloves today carrying into the workshop and loading a 250 mm long bit of 120 dia steel into the bandsaw, now just got to cut about 60 mm off one end, then turn about 90% of the rest of it into swarf, giot to the end of the month to do it, so Saturday should see it done.

Ian S C

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

Got 2/3 the way through that "B"@#$, bar, and the blade on the band saw broke, I used to have good success brazing blades, do you think I could do it today? No way. Hack saw, new blade, the arms not too sore at all.

Ian S C

[John ReeseParticipant @johnreese12848]

I wore gloves at the tablesaw. I was tired and did not bother to remove the gloves. The saw blade caught the glove and pulled my hand in. No feeling in the tip of my left thumb, index finger is permanently bent at a right angle and has no feeling in the tip. Middle finger is gone. all from wearing gloves when I knew I should not.

No gloves around moving machinery, ever.

Going in the shop fatigued is probably as bad as going in drunk. Maybe it is worse. If you had a few you are most likely to realize you are impaired. Fatigue sneaks up on you and you may not realize just how much you are impaired.

Sure miss the middle finger when I am driving.

[egaParticipant @ega]

John Reese:

Very sorry to hear about your accident; the price of being able to count to ten is eternal vigilance.

I remember a show demonstration involving a sausage brought into contact with a moving circular saw blade which stopped in time to avoid serious injury to the sausage.

Being unable to make offensive gestures at the wheel is not so bad!

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