View Poll Results: Do you use gloves to work on your car? If so, which kind?

Yes, latex/rubber gloves

47.22%

Yes, mechanic's gloves such as "mechanix"

13.89%

No, gloves are for girls

38.89%

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When working on your car, do you use rubber/latex or "mechanix" gloves?

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10-12-2007, 12:57 PM

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ryball

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If you don't use gloves, and if they still make it, Castrol Super Clean waterless and toweless hand cleaner is the bomb. You just put a little dollop of the paste in you hand and work it around. it solidifies and takes any oil or grease alone with it.

10-12-2007, 01:12 PM

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The Costco in Vacaville has DeWalt kit, two pair of gloves and protective eyewear for $7 or $8. Bang for the buck.

10-12-2007, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by ryball

That stuff is awesome. Basically white glue and lotion (at least it seemed that way).

10-12-2007, 03:18 PM

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bear hand yo. but i kinda wish i had gloves because i always cut my fingers up

10-12-2007, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by 2cam16

Latex for oil change,etc. Mechanix for other stuff.

+1 latex for liquids, mechanix for wrenching.

"toughing it out" is for morons who think they are being a man.

Latex doesn't stand up to the rigors of wrenching, and it sucks (read: ruins them) to get your Mechanix gloves saturated with fluid.

I spilled oil all over my mech gloves and they soaked it up like a sponge. I had to toss them out cuz constant exposure to oil is not good for you. (read: cancer)

10-12-2007, 03:33 PM

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bear hand yo. but i kinda wish i had gloves because i always cut my fingers up

Yeah... That is why I wear gloves. Don't want to run risk of injuries.

10-12-2007, 03:53 PM

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I use Nitrile gloves

10-12-2007, 03:55 PM

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I use nothing about 95% of the time. I like the grime. I have soap..

But on occassion I do use nitrile gloves and or mechanix gloves. mechanix gloves actually saved me some serious pain the other day. I need to find a new pair. They don't make the ones I have anymore and that bumms me out.

I bounced a die grinder with a wire wheel off my pinky at full lock.