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Thread: disposable gloves
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15th July 2010, 03:56 PM #1
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disposable gloves
Hi guys,
Just wondering if anyone knows of any good disposable gloves for use with epoxy etc?
I love the ones I use at the moment but they're very pricey. Its a latex, nitrile and neoprene blend called Trituff... a lot more comfy than plain latex or nitrile, but around $19 for a box of 100!
Any ideas would be great!
Thanks
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16th July 2010, 11:35 AM #2
Woolies - the small red box that has the blue nitrile gloves, I think they are the herculean brand or something similar.
These are great, any other type of disposable gloves I've tried just disintegrate in contact with the finish.Box Challenge 2011 - Check out the amazing Boxes!
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16th July 2010, 03:19 PM #3rrich Guest
Check with your Chinese Tool Import shops. I just bought a box of nitrile gloves for $6US. (Our chain of shops is called Harbor Freight among other things.)
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17th July 2010, 11:16 AM #4
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17th July 2010, 04:38 PM #5
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I use these vinyl gloves from Elraco.
Mostly for use when at the lathe/mill but I've used them successfully for fibre glassing.Geoff
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17th July 2010, 04:55 PM #6
I order in these:
Disposable nitrile gloves, nitrile exam gloves and cheap nitrile gloves
Regards from Perth
DerekVisit www.inthewoodshop.com for tutorials on constructing handtools, handtool reviews, and my trials and tribulations with furniture builds.
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17th July 2010, 05:52 PM #7
Anyone know if any of the suggested gloves handle a turps and linseed mix? Last time I used surgicals when using steel wool/turps/linseed mix the finger tips wore through after a couple of minutes...the steel wool probably did most of the damage but the turps seem to make the latex(?) go mushy. Now I just grin and bare it and go nude
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17th July 2010, 10:11 PM #8
Hi Springwater, I once used latex with WipeOnPoly and had the exact same thing happen, hence I now only use the nitrile for WOPoly, using the water dyes and shellac (shellac makes a great fingernail varnish, but is hellishly sticky on skin)
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18th July 2010, 12:05 AM #9
Hi Rufffly, good to hear from you
Lately I've been scrubbing small pieces of wood with steel wool soaked with turps/linseed in a s'steel bowl and found I can stand about an hour before my hands start tingling and burning
The first session was the worst, pretty sure I lost a layer or two of skin, by the fourth session my hands have a shining crusty glaze over them, nice! 150 pieces to go, so getting nitrile gloves should go along way toward returning my hands to their usual elegant beauty
must try the shellac fingernail varnish
what do you use to get the dye off when you want to change colour...bleech maybe...you do use colour don't you
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18th July 2010, 10:47 AM #10
Hi Spring, I certainly do use colour - Feast Watson proof tint black, UBeauts Water dyes - all the the colours and the mahogany or whiskey leather dyes. Unfortunately, the only thing that gets rid of these colours is the pumice stone..... Ohh
you meant fingernail polish colour
Seriously though, wear the gloves, turps is not a good thing to have on your skinand wrap the steel wool in a piece of cloth so it doesn't cut the gloves so quickly.
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18th July 2010, 12:14 PM #11
I first read your reply on the Ispy thingy which only shows the start of the post, I thought oh no she thought I was serious
you got me a beauty
I feel as though I've just about highjacked this thread but the matter seems resolved so doesn't the wrapping in cloth of the steel wool stop its effectiveness or does it hang out a bit, spose I could stop typing and go and find out
Our camera was last seen in a Taxi in another country so its a no show of progress on what I'm working on but it is happening
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18th July 2010, 03:41 PM #12
yeah, it's been a beauty of a hijack, but the point is still there - good nitrile gloves are worth their weight in gold for turps, shellac, dyes and epoxy.
You got it!Wrapping the steel wool in a cloth with a bit hanging out means your fingers are protected but there's enough steel wool to do the job. it's a trick my Mum taught me when scrubbing the pots and pans as a kid. She'd always wrap the steel wool in one of the those green scrubbers.
cheers
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