The latex gloves I use at work, I have found last longer than others. They are a black nitrile type glove called black lightening.
Again, solvents and the like will still degrade them, but they do last longer than normal latex.
They are also a wee bit more richer on the hip pocket than most others.

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I spent a day cleaning parts with por 15 marine clean , at the end of the day when I washed my hands with a good hand cleaner my finger nails were black , I mean all of my finger nail , hands were spotless though . very dry skin , nearly grown out now , gloves ? I think so next time
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I use gloves whenever I can. Oils, greases etc are known carcinogens and I try to minimize my exposure to them. Some volatile solvents penetrate deep into the skin and cause joint pains.

Secondly, after stuffing around with 30 y.o. caked on mud and grease it takes days to get out of your hands. No matter how much you wash and scrub, even use degreaser, you can't get it out. The moisture gets sucked right out of your skin. Pretty good way to kill your skin I reckon. Screw all that... just keep swapping latex gloves, then bin em when you're done. If there were no breakages, you don't even have to wash.

Also, girls don't like oily or dried out hands with greasy fingernails. If you're okay with tradie hands, that's your choice.

Edit: also, when you use new gloves with new parts, you're guaranteed to not bring along any grit and grime. Probably helps with longevity.

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My day job is pretty hard on my hands, they would be approximately 80% calloused. Been a mechanics son all my life, I'm so used to my hands being dirty in some form or another that I've stopped worrying about it.

I've had a couple of girls complain about my hands, but a few haven't either . However since being married the only complaints I get are "You could have cleaned the grease off the tap after you finished!! YOU GROTTY BASTARD" .

I've tried gloves at work which are fine when they are dry, but I haven't found any that work in the wet. I've tried gloves when working on the car but I tend to tear them trying to get my hands into the nooks and crannies that can be found. I only use them now when I'm painting or fibreglassing

He!! Yeah I wear gloves! I'm a Chiropractor so I have to have hand that are clean and in decent shape. Also my girlfriend likes it when my hands are nice. At first I was like everybody else and thought the gloves were stupid. But once I got used to them, after about an hour, I loved them and wouldn't be without them. I use nitrile gloves called "Thicksters" and they are great, they are pretty strong and I can usually reuse them, I often get a couple days before I tear one of them. I just use a little talcum powder to slide them on the next day. My hands stay clean and it is amazing how well they protect your hands. Sometimes my hand will slip and my hand will hit something and I'm sure that my hand will be gashed open because my hand will be hurting like a b@$t@rd. But when I check my hand I find that I have only torn the nitrile glove. I slip on a new one and carry on. So I highly recommend them.

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Gloves are good if you have to work in any sort of professional environment, i like using them for really dirty jobs like building hubs and bearing/cv grease etc.

Dentists gloves are pretty strong as teeth can be sharp and there is an outbreak of dentists with aids because of cut latex gloves and blood.

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I have tried and tried with them. The latex ones basically break as soon as I put them on.

I reakon the best ones I have used would be those kitchen gloves that my missus would wear if she ever done any house work..

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As a machinist, I abhor gloves, because on rotating machinery they are bloody dangerous. And hand tools just don't feel right to me when I wear gloves.

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working with oil ,grease and heavy fuel oil I should wear pretty silk white gloves to go with the pretty white overalls we get issued with stuff the gloves they will cause a accident sooner or later when your glove gets dragged into a moving part.

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I'm hearing more and more about the carcinogenic dangers of used oil, but wonder how real this threat is. Is it real and tangible, or a liability avoidance excersize?
There's always the "We've always done it this way!" nature to the argument, but if it turns out to be a real threat, then what types of oils and lubricants are we talking about?

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Woolies sell blue nitrile gloves in 20 packs for a few bucks. They are like the thin latex ones so you can feel what you are doing and get a grip but they resist most solvents etc.

They aren't expensive, keep you a bit safer from metals contaminats in the oil and make cleaning up a bit easier.

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I use "You'll love Coles" brand gloves. They are much stronger than some of the other ones I've tried.

It's so easy. When you finish your work, you just take of you gloves, give them a quick rinse to get rid of the latex smell and Bob's your uncle.

Mind you I had a great uncle who was a farmer and used to say - "Nothing like kneading a loaf of bread to get the muck out from under your nails"

I heard of this technique with used condoms. You simply shake the f*** out of them.

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Have put two of my fingers through a set of steel rolers because I was wearing gloves when I shouldnt have been, so no I dont wear gloves anymore.

But if im using chemicals and the MSDSsay use gloves, then I use gloves.

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I never used to wear gloves, for the past 30years, and always had black finger nails and ingrained grease in my fingers, BUT for the past few years I have discovered gloves that work.

I am not a lover of leather gloves as they are too thick, ane yes can get caught in a wirebrush, but the thin blue ones are great and once they are dirty or break then throw away and put on another set. I also have a tin of powder handy which helps to get them on. I also use heavy duty gloves when working with thinners or turps as the nitrile gloves will still dissolve fairly quickly.

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