Greasy hands? Use TOOTHPASTE

[alanmcorcoran]

You can get a big box of them for cheap at the Home Depot too.

[mrlmd1]

The gloves do keep your hands clean but sometimes when they get covered with oil or grease they get so soft and slippery it's hard to do anything delicate with them on. Keep a large rag handy to wipe them off.

[Easy Rider]

Originally Posted by patrick_777

the oil soaked down my Mechanix gloves. Now whenever I use them my hands are oily. :cuss:

A REAL man doesn't use gloves to change his oil !! :neener:

[Canuck]

fast orange is probably the more popular brand yes

[music man]

[quote=Easy Rider]

Originally Posted by "patrick_777":3ofp0n37

the oil soaked down my Mechanix gloves. Now whenever I use them my hands are oily. :cuss:

A REAL man doesn't use gloves to change his oil !! :neener:[/quote:3ofp0n37]



I wasn't gonna go there but since you did, A real man also doesn't use gloves that cost more than the damn oil and oil filter to change the oil on his bike. :poke2: :popcorn: :twisted:

[patrick_777]

They were a gift.

Eat me - both of you. :redflip:

[adrianinflorida]

Originally Posted by patrick_777

They were a gift.

Eat me - both of you. :redflip:

I still have a pair that were so soaked in gear oil from a Porsche 997 gearbox rebuild that they still smell like gear oil, many washes later. I figured that the residue of that gear oil was worth more than the gloves, so why get rid of 'em.

[alantf]

My grand daughter's a doctor. The surgeon's gloves that she "finds" work just fine, & not just for working on the bike. They save me having to soak my hands in turps after I've been varnishing.

[alanmcorcoran]

I play the piano, so I am pretty sure that alone knocks me out of the "real man" club, but the gloves mentioned by alantf and others are handy for jobs involving solvents, oil, etc. There are a couple of problems I've encountered:

1) between my fading eyesight and creeping arthritis, I often can't do shit without a very bright light, sticking my face inches from the task at hand, and removing the gloves so I can "feel" whatever the hell it is I'm trying to mess with. I found that drain plug to be in a particularly annoying location.

2) For some jobs (paint stripping, removing old batteries) the nasty you are trying to avoid will eat right through the gloves. This especially true for paint stripper. They sell heavier gloves for that, but I've developed holes in those too.

As you get older, you get more respectful of not f*cking up your parts, expecially your fingers. Unless you are an idiot like me and still ski in bad conditions.