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Fast Eddie said:
But Ashley, until you’ve experienced our younger looking and baby soft skin, you don’t know what you’re missing mate…
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Mate I am 64 years old a red head, fair skin the under my shirt I still have baby soft skin, no sun aging lol, but I have hard hands from hard work all my life so 1/2 way there lol
 
As I said before 50 years of riding dirt and road bikes I don't wear gloves I like to feel my bike through the handle bars, don't get that feeling with padded gloves and in winter I ride with woollen fingerless gloves, I been down the road a few times in 50 years but have never damaged my hands or fingers, but have broken my thumb from a throw over the handle bars on my Norton. I have also rode with open face helmets for most of those 50 years, I do have a flip top helmet for travelling and bad weather, I still have my good looks.
I don't think about coming off and it's the risk I take same as anything that gets thrown at us in life.
Same as working on the bikes I like to feel my tools, wearing gloves in the workshop no thank, just looked at my finger nails and yes there is dirt, crap under my nails but my hands are clean lol.
 
ashman said:
What a bunch of girls, gloves to work on your bikes, if you get oil on your hands you wash them straight away, good workshop hand cleaner and workshop rages, love them blue workshop towels, I don't soak my hands in oiland if I get a little oil on my fingers when dropping the sump plug I wipe then wash straight away.
Working in a maintenance workshop and using machinery gloves can be dangerous as well here in Aussie you get girls nick name if you wore gloves, well except if welding.
Only joking if you want soft hands then all good but nothing wrong with dirty hands and crap under your nails just show you do work.
Don't get all worked up if I offend you because you want soft hands, it's the Aussie way to sh.t stir everyone, aswell I never wear gloves when riding, 50 years of riding I still have all my fingers, how can you pick your nose with gloves on.
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I agree
Who the hell wears gloves to work on a motorcycle!
I've never worn them and never will
Just wash your hands with washing up liquid and a spoon of sugar
Bunch of Nancy boys!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
 
Onder said:
Part of the glove thing is you really dont want the dermal attack you get from petrochems etc.
And dirty hands is no longer manly it is stupid. Times change sometimes for the better.
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And if you do get oil, or wellseal, or copper grease on your hands, then before you know it you have that stuff all over the bike. Disposable gloves save so much cleaning-up.

I also discovered a new technique that gloves allow, I was really struggling to hold a nut in place behind the Z plates with my big hands whilst I got the bolt started, eventually I superglued the nut to one gloved finger, put that behind the plate, screwed the bolt in, and the job was done. One finger fitted where two wouldn't. Then of course, I pulled my hand out and left one finger of the glove behind there. In 20 years I'll see that finger and think WTF?
 
Joking aside
I have tried vinyl and nitrile gloves
I just can't get on with them
I wouldn't want to be fitting piston rings with them on etc
They are next to useless working on carburetors imo
I don't use them on a lathe or milling machine
About the only use I can see is maybe fitting a new drive chain
 
baz said:
Joking aside
I have tried vinyl and nitrile gloves
I just can't get on with them
I wouldn't want to be fitting piston rings with them on etc
They are next to useless working on carburetors imo
I don't use them on a lathe or milling machine
About the only use I can see is maybe fitting a new drive chain
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Fair enough, but the thin gloves will rip rather than pull you into the revolving chuck or work. I think……
I never wore gloves until I started working with epoxy and 2k silicon. It’s essential here, no ifs or buts. I became comfortable with them, but still don’t always use them for working on the bikes.
 
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I only use gloves to handle freshly blasted parts before I power coat or paint them and those are always new.

The towels I mentioned earlier not only do a fantastic job of cleaning my hands, they are skin safe (as much as anything can be) and they contain lanolin, aloe vera, and vitamin E. My hands are much better now than before I started using the wipes - no roughness, no cracking, no dryness, and so on.
 
marshg246 said:
I only use gloves to handle freshly blasted parts before I power coat or paint them and those are always new.

The towels I mentioned earlier not only do a fantastic job of cleaning my hands, they are skin safe (as much as anything can be) and they contain lanolin, aloe vera, and vitamin E. My hands are much better now than before I started using the wipes - no roughness, no cracking, no dryness, and so on.
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If the cracks have gone you better not wipe your backside with 'em!!!
 
I’m not allergic to latex and I find pump gas dissolves nitrile gloves.
Not everything that gets onto my hands while working comes off with detergents.

Disposable gloves
 
MichaelD said:
I've been wondering why all the UK mechanics I see on YouTube wear protective gloves, but USA mechanics all seem to wear caps instead?

I use disposable 3mm nitrile gloves for really messy jobs like oil changes, and palm coated gloves for everyday mechanicing. The disposables last up to a day, and cost 25p/pr, the more substantial nitrile coated gloves are about £1.50 from Screwfix
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Because the ones on Ewetube are not really mechanics at all.
 
Getting past gloves for a minute. ..
Does anybody still use “ Barrier Cream “ these days ?
Before modern skin tight gloves became commonplace and affordable there wasn’t really much else to use for skin protection, at that time the acceptance of heavily engrained skin was waning as of course was the use of a pumice stone .. lol !
 
Grandad said:
Getting past gloves for a minute. ..
Does anybody still use “ Barrier Cream “ these days ?
Before modern skin tight gloves became commonplace and affordable there wasn’t really much else to use for skin protection, at that time the acceptance of heavily engrained skin was waning as of course was the use of a pumice stone .. lol !
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What is “barrier cream”? The reference to pumice stone sounds about right, but we had Borax soap here. Gloves are a lot less work during cleanup.
 
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