I started wearing those gloves in the shop to protect my hands against WD-40. I cut a lot of aluminum (mostly aluminum, really) and without flood coolant (open manual mills) I tend to use a lot of WD-40.
After a day of making a part, I'd have to wash my hands like five times to finally get rid of the smell- at which point they're dry, cracking and sore.
After I started using the gloves, it was a simple case of peeling them off, a quick rinse with plain soap and water, and done.
I stretched that out to using them to work on greasy things, for painting, for using light solvents, handling dirty parts and so on. Today, it kind of doesn't feel right to
not be wearing them in the shop.
And even those thin nitrile one have saved me from countless little stabs from steel cuttings, the occasional light slip with an exacto, undeburred edges and so on.
I absolutely do not ascribe to the usual "no gloves in the shop, no way, no how" mindset. That's stupid and ludicrous. Gloves are PPE, no less than hearing protection and safety glasses.
Yes, some people have gotten injured when their glove got caught in some machinery. But that's not the glove's fault, it's the fault of the idiot that stuck his goddam hand into the spinning thing!
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Doc.
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