Bare Hands

[Rich84]

You absorb toxins though your skin. Think nicotine patch. My cousin was a transmission builder. Has liver damage from never wearing gloves while working with solvents.

 

[TotalyHucked]

Only time I wear gloves is working on something hot or doing brakes/rotating tires.

 

[Robert Bare]

Yes, most times. Wish they were around back when I started wrenching.

 

[Catbox]

Gloves, gloves, gloves.
I use them.
I make the kids use them.

I had a decade of stained black hands that needed to have a pumice stone to get 80% clean.
Now with all the chemicals and crap, there is no need to not have them on.

When they go on sale I buy several boxes of my size and some for the kids as well.

 

[Strick]

Been wrenching my whole life bareback. I do my work in the buff!

HS

 

[Vbb199]

Bare hands for everything except grease... i HATE grease lol

 

[idahovette]

Been wrenching my whole life bareback. I do my work in the buff!

HS

Now that's a sight I can't erase from my mind!!!!!!!!!

 

[74Blaze]

I'm in the no gloves camp (except when digging, trimming trees and shrubs, splitting wood or doing concrete work). Wrenching is a hobby not my career. Gloves slow me down, and I feel like I have less dexterity when I wear them. I do get cuts and scrapes. the joke is that I leave my DNA on the projects that I work on. Fast Orange is my go-to for clean-up.

 

[BigT]

I don't mind a little grease, dirt, oil, whatever, BUT I wear gloves a lot because I'm a huge clumsy oaf and I'm always cutting myself or skinning my knuckles on something when I don't wear them. I've been working on my truck a lot lately, sometimes without gloves, and I can count six injuries on my hands right now. I usually wear something with a little padding, like Mechanix style, when it's dry work, and when I'm gonna get oily or super greasy then I'll wear some thick nitrile ones for the worst of it, just so I don't have to stop and wash it off before moving on to the next task.