I want to buy a box of disposable gloves for use when changing oil and other dirty work on cars. Can anyone point me to some they can recommend from using them on a national website eg screwfix toolstation euro car parts.   I did have some a couple of years ago which were rubbish but I think they were latex not nitrile. Thanks.  (I don’t care what colour they are)

I use the heavy duty black household ones, they are very strong and easy to slip on and off if you need to get back into the drivers seat to work controls etc.

I used to buy a box of nitrile gloves for about £5, but I ran out when Covid came along and all the prices went through the roof. In the end I bought a box of St. John Ambulance Nitrile gloves in medium size for about £12. These are far batter than the cheap gloves as they are thicker and don't tear as easily. I bought them via Ebay.

Health & safety gone mad!  Whatever happened to just getting covered in carcinogenic fluids like a real man?  

 

I bought a couple of boxes of gloves super cheap from B&Q when they closed one of the local stores.  They do break up in a fairly short time though!  They're also disgustingly sweaty within minutes.  I prefer the semi-coated material gloves myself.  Only use latex disposables where I'm going to got covered in oil or diesel and often put them on over the top of the material ones.

I get these from a local motor factor, screwfix, toolstation, B & Q - whoever has a bargain at the time. I use them for all sorts of oily jobs, cleaning paintbrushes and bicycle chains (tho whit spirit dissolves the gloves!) and emptying the caravan's chemical toilet!

4 hours ago, TomsFocus said:

Health & safety gone mad!  Whatever happened to just getting covered in carcinogenic fluids like a real man?

I know, when I was a boy servicing my fathers Taxi I used to clean the Brake Drums out with Trichloroethylene on a cloth straight from a bottle after blowing the Asbestos off them.

Maybe the Diesel, Oil and Grease coating that was already on my hands saved me😁

Trichloroethylene was always used to clean hands after a messy job, put it in a washing up liquid bottle to spray around oily engines for a quick clean up. If only I knew then what I know now.

Back in the old days when I was still doing chemistry we used to mouth pipette carbon tetrachloride. Young people today don't know what they're missing with all the health and safety rules. It's not like you need a liver anyway.

3 hours ago, Tizer said:

I know, when I was a boy servicing my fathers Taxi I used to clean the Brake Drums out with Trichloroethylene on a cloth straight from a bottle after blowing the Asbestos off them.

Maybe the Diesel, Oil and Grease coating that was already on my hands saved me😁

That procedure was normal when I was an apprentice and quite some time after. Clouds of asbestos lingering in the air.  Can't remember when I first started wearing gloves. Many a time there were black finger marks on my sandwiches as I ate lunch. 

Hands never came up clean unless you had a week off work. 

Been trying to work out when I started wearing gloves, I reckon about 2004-5 when I changed jobs. So 23 years no gloves. 18yrs with gloves. The blowing of asbestos dust  was earlier around 1995 but by then the brake shoes I'm guessing were asbestos free? 

Ok, thanks.  There’s too much choice. When younger I did a lot of work on cars and motorbikes and didn’t wear gloves.   These days I do less but trying to clean my hands afterwards seems to make them more sore than before,  I think because my hands aren’t subject to the harsh treatment so often .  And my wife seems to complain more if my hands look like I’ve done some manual work. As you get older your skin gets more like tissue paper!   Although I am only 59 and it’s not quite that bad yet.  I didn’t blow brake drums out with air but I did respray motor bike petrol tanks in my bedroom with aerosols (couldn’t do it outside in winter due to the bloom on the paint) so that’s probably not done me much good.   My dad would come home and say you’ve been ***** spray painting again , the whole house stinks. And he wasnt happy when I got burn marks on the kitchen Lino. I was ark welding in there.  I didn’t have a heavy duty extension  lead, I plugged the welder in the cooker point but the cable was too short to get outside the door!  

1 hour ago, iantt said:

The blowing of asbestos dust  was earlier around 1995 but by then the brake shoes I'm guessing were asbestos free? 

According to google you should be ok except in a few cases with older cars.

I started working on Brakes in the 1970's and both my fathers Taxi and my Hillman Hunter were old cars and would almost certainly have had Asbestos.

23 hours ago, TomsFocus said:

Health & safety gone mad!  Whatever happened to just getting covered in carcinogenic fluids like a real man?  

 

Couple of guys up here who worked for the Hydro board used to service the transformers and used the waste oil out of them to undercoat their vehicles! 😲

7 minutes ago, Turvey said:

Couple of guys up here who worked for the Hydro board used to service the transformers and used the waste oil out of them to undercoat their vehicles! 😲

I am inherently lazy, so hate spending time washing my hands so use gloves for all sorts of domestic chores. Every time I'm in a 'discount' type store I always look a box out. Top tip, open the box (at the end) take out a glove and try it on. No point buying a box of 100 to find the darn things don't fit. My budget is usually £5 for a box of 100.

I noted during the 'madness' that some retailers raised the price to in excess of £25, I will never buy anything from them again, my own private protest LOL

A small selection, I have more in my shed!

Mechanic gloves, Lidl does a good lasting set and 2 pairs was only £1.99 (middle aisle scoop)

I too have a box of the vinyl gloves, green I think they are and have a decent selection of gloves from my utilities exploits over the years.

Have worn gloves at work for 25 yrs and mainly do when doing things at home as it becomes secondary nature really.

It's far easier to replace the gloves than cause some serious damage to your hands.