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Does anyone else here wear the latex surgical gloves when cleaning their guns?

I find them to be beneficial in keeping oil from making my fingers slippery and any residue, be it oil, cleaner or whatever is wiped off the gloves with a paper towel so I do not contaminate the gun with cleaner still on my hands as I oil it for long term safe storage.
 
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I wear gloves for cleaning. I get these blue nitrile gloves from work and they are great. The latex ones are ok but the nitrile ones are better IMHO.
 
Nitrile holds up better to non water based chemicals. But I do not use gloves when cleaning my guns.

When using MEK, and paint thinners and stuff like DMSO, heck yes I wear gloves.
 
I just started, this year, wearing those blue 'nitrile' gloves while cleaning my guns. The fingertips don't fall apart from the chemicals on the nitrile gloves, like they do on the latex gloves. I must be getting a little smarter as I get older, as I'm sure those chemicals are not too good to be soaking into your skin. I also wear these guns when applying wood finish.
 
If you are actually using sterile, individually packaged Surgical gloves, you are wasting money that could be better spent on more powder & boolits. :eek:

I use Non-sterile, bulk packed Exam gloves. :D

Kidding aside, I try to avoid using solvents that are hazardous to my health and use the appropreate glove material when an acceptable substitue isn't readily available.
An MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) can be found online for just about everything we use to clean anything and they contain useful information about handling the products we use on our guns and while reloading ammo.

My big paws quickly turn into prunes even in XXXXL exam gloves, so I use finger cots rather than gloves whenever I can, like when I'm reloading with lead bullets.

John
 
Nitrile exam gloves from Target, even though the box says not really meant for handling chemicals. If I've gotten in a bunch of samples, then I'll use thicker medical ones. Latex isn't meant to be used with petroleum products. Eats it up.
 
For the first 45 years of gun cleaning, no. I started wearing them a few years back while doing routine cleaning, but I find that when I do smithing work, I have to take them off due to the lack of dexterity. While smithing, I found I was tearing the gloves anyway, so they were not much good.

I tried to wear them while reloading and found that my hands quickly became too sweaty to work with. Now I don't wear them when on the press, I just make sure to scrub my hands really thoroughly afterward.

chief38
 
Boxes of 100 latex "exam" gloves are dirt cheap at
WallyWorld and great for guns and other chores such as cleaning up the grill or smoker. Use once and toss. I don't even keep Goop or any other hand cleaners around the house any more.

Bob
 
bk43 said:
Boxes of 100 latex "exam" gloves are dirt cheap at
WallyWorld and great for guns and other chores such as cleaning up the grill or smoker. Use once and toss. I don't even keep Goop or any other hand cleaners around the house any more.

Bob
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Big plus one. I use them when working with figerglass and resin-also they come in handy when "Extracting legal fees". :D
Something about the sound made while snapping those suckers on-much like the sound of racking a pump shotgun. Some sounds are international in their meaning :eek:
 
The latex gloves I use extend well past the elbow, and sure ain't used to clean guns!
 
I buy the mechanics gloves from auto parts stores. Cost about $10 per 100. They are thicker than surgical gloves but fit the same. I get pretty good feel and grip with them and only tore the finger tip on one glove while taking a mag apart.
 
I guess I like how Hoppe's soaks into my calluses. Kinda like aroma therapy for at least 2 days.

rags
 
As others have said , the blue nitrile rubber will hold up better than latex to solvents.

We're supposed to wear them at work while using chemicals , but I don't . can't really. My hands start sweating as soon as I put them on.
 
This guy hev bin using no gluves for dekades durin cleanering carberaters, brakes, stuff n ohter stuffs n guns two and aint hed no problims wit nutnin. Reel mens dunt uze ruber on hands or ohter plaices too. My wife thimks itza miss take and sez it may rooin my brane but I needsnaother beer now.
 
Good idea, I'll have to try it. But for years, I've been using cotton conservator's gloves, commonly used at an archive for handling documents. One can buy a load of them on Ebay for cheap. They don't really keep chemicals away from the hands, but they retain oil and don't leave fingerprints behind, almost like wiping a gun down with a clean cotton rag.
 
Joebklyn said:
I wear gloves for cleaning. I get these blue nitrile gloves from work and they are great. The latex ones are ok but the nitrile ones are better IMHO.
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I use the same ones: blue nitrile.

You can become allergic to rubber/latex, and get a 'contact sensitivity'....EVERYWHERE on your body.

Nitrile is pretty much impervious to petroleum products. While I've had latex gloves just... expand... until they tripled in size, and slid off my hands
 
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