Do you have a glove preferance?

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navycop

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I saw a video were a guy was wearing the kind that food service people use. There are some that prefer the blue ones from H F. I always end up with some of the nitrile gloves in my pocket from the hospital. Just wondering if some resist CA and finishes better than others.
 
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My preference used to be the nitrile/latex combination gloves that Harbor Freight sold. Unfortunately, they no longer sell them. Now, if I'm working with oils (such as changing motor oil), I use the HF nitrile gloves. If I'm working with solvents (I use acetone to degrease rifle cartridges before powdercoating), I prefer latex gloves. Those are getting harder to find, as HF no longer carries them either. I bought my last box from homedepot.com.

I hope that helps,
Eric
 
I know the posters in this thread do not use gloves on a spinning lathe, so this caution is for anyone else.

Do not wear any gloves around spinning lathes. It will pull you fingers and the partially attached hand into the lathe before you can blink your eye! Don't wrap anything around any part of your anatomy that you want to remain attached to!
 
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For applying CA finishes, I prefer the HF Black Nitrile gloves. I hold a piece of paper towel in the gloved hand and apply a drop or two to the towel and apply. I have not experienced CA sticking to the gloves.
 
I use to wear the blue ones from HF when applying CA finish. Once when I ran out of gloves, I just put blue painters tape around my finger(s) that was holding the paper towel I put drops of CA on. It worked great and that is the method I have used since.
 
I use diamond grip latex gloves. Why, because I get a nice discount from them at work. They cost about $5.00 for 100 of them and are thicker than normal latex gloves.
 
For CA application I use Nitrile gloves. Everything else is bare hand. I don't like latex, I worked at the American Red Cross for 21 years and we, Central Ohio Region, changed to Nitrile several years ago and did away with all latex gloves. The nitrile smell, fit and protect better. Many solvent based products will attack the latex gloves.
 
I prefer the HF blue nitrile but CA will stick to them, so for my CA finishing applications I slip a small poly bag from a pen kit over my gloved index finger since CA does not stick to poly. That is sufficient to keep me from becoming attached to my paper towel.

Been thinking of trying the poly loose fitting food gloves to see if that would be better.
 
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