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How many of you wear Mechanix Wear gloves or soemthing similar

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I've been working on doing a roll cage in a car and my hands are getting cut up

How well do the gloves hold up

Or should I just stop being a little girl and tough it out :o

They aren't cheap so I figured I would ask before I got some
 
I do. I like not skinning my knuckles and banging my cuticles up. Funny thing is that half the time I forget them so it winds up happening anyway.
 
I like the m-pact version, they are good for just general purpose use and the extra padding helps a lot.
 
Depending on what I'm doing, I'll use either Mechanix or surgical type gloves.
 
$15 or $20 is cheap compared to a painful day of work, or a hospital visit. (You can also get the generic ones @ Harbor Freight now and again, less than $10.)

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=93641

Six bucks a pair at the moment. I go through a pair once or twice a year (depending on how broken the trucks are that year :haha: ) and I find the fingers are the first thing to go. I've debated chopping the fingers off the old ones (child of the 80's, fingerless gloves) but that's the part I find needs the most protection ... the palm and outside never seem to get banged or cut. :dunno:

And yeah, the gel-padded ones are the shiznit for when you're running air tools or swinging a hammer, etc... but you lose some dexterity with them. With the regular mechanics-style ones I can R&R most small parts and fasteners; with the padded ones, it'd hafta be at least a 3/8" or so bolt for me to grab it :eek:

For oily and greasy work, Nvrenuf's on target. I use the nitrile rubber ones as they're thicker and cheaper than the surgical ones. Eight bucks for a box of 100 means 16c a set, and if you go through eight sets in a day, that's a buck you've spent keeping goop off your skin and out of your fingernails, and out of the cuts and scrapes you may have from when you weren't wearing either kind of glove :rolleyes: etc. I mean, sure, FastOrange cleans most stuff off ... but use it hard enough and it takes off a layer of skin, too :haha: and it burns in the aforementioned cuts :whistle:

My .02, which with inflation means it's worth approximately squat... :D

-- A
 
i wear surgical type gloves. this way i dont have to scrub my hands everyday after work. mechanix gloves i think are a pain in the ass. i cant seem to start a bolt when i wear them.
 
I wear out gloves way too fast- especially when they get soaked with brake fluid. I like the brand Steel Horse the best- get them at my welding shop
 
I have the surgical gloves already

I was wanting some general work gloves for with metal and other stuff that isn't greasy.

I'll have to check out some of the gloves you metnioned, thanks

I may try those harbor freight ones first :D
 
I use Nitrile gloves. I can feel a bolt better than the mechanix. Plus when they get really dirty or break, just throw them away and slap on a new pair and keep going. They only other gloves are welding gloves and thats a given.
 
I use the Mechanix m-pact too. They hold up pretty well but I'm on my second pair for this build. Here's a tip: get the smallest size you can get your hand in. I should have gone down a size with the latest pair. When I got home I noticed my old ones were smaller - I liked the tighter fit better - now the finger tips aren't as tactile. I also wish they didn't soak up fluids. I guess I need a "clean" and "dirty" pair. There are only a few things I would use surgical gloves for - packing bearings etc. Otherwise I don't like the feel of them and would prefer to get my gloves dirty or wash my hands real good.
 
I dig the Mechanix gloves but Im too cheap to buy them . I know you can get the cheap ones as stated at Harbor Freight but thats just it, there cheap. I would rather spend the extra maney and buy the Mechanix brand. I mostly dont wear anything on my hands, other then welding gloves. Im old school I guess. My hands get dirty, I just wash them. If all the dirt wont come out no matter how good I wash them, so be it. If I see a good deal on gloves I will pick some up.
 
I only wear gloves when I'm welding...and I've spent 40+ hours a week for the last 20 years working with steel. I can't stand nitrile gloves, and will wear the cheap leather work gloves when I'm working with stuff I know is sharp. Other than that it's bare hands.

My hands are pretty tough now...and if that kind of work isn't what you normally do I can totally understand the need for gloves. OTOH there is only one way to get your hands to toughen up.

Rene
 
I wear Mechanix all the time, being diabetic I heal really slow. When 1 pair wears out I cut the finger tips off and use them for working on small stuff. They still protect my knuckles and palms.
 
bunch of freakin girlie men....... :p::haha:

I do have a pair for winter outdoor shrinkwrapping. But for daily wrenching, I can't wear them, not nimble enough for one thing...

surgical gloves I wear when doing glasswork, but greasy wrenching? bare hands... them things'd be torn in 2 minutes crawling around bilges...

If you want to keep your hands clean, shouldn't have become a mechanic!!! :p::wink1:
 
Usually when I buy gloves, It's a pair of welding gloves and a pair of true fit Mechanics type gloves.

I keep the left hand welding and right hand true fit. Give the other half pairs to Stomper.

I don't like wearing a welding glove on the hand that pulls the trigger the majority of the time. Just not needed. Wear them for hot parts or sharp parts.

Otherwise my hands are black.
 
I have two pair of Machanix gloves, they are pretty good. I lucked out and picked both pairs up on sale at sears for 10$ each. They were getting rid of machanix, and bring in an identical glove made that said craftsman. I think machanix gloves work pretty well. I wear em whenever I can, except when doing oil changes, or something that’s really messy, then its rubber or nitril gloves. I would recommend the mechanics gloves, but they are pricy. you could always look for an alternative http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_00947655000P?mv=rr

cheers
Matt
 
the mechanix gloves I bought working pretty well. Just had to wash them when they fell in my bucket of gear oil, but a good product none the less.

Most of the time I wearing nitrile gloves though, as I get them free through my job:D
 
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