In terms of hands, it's stayed with me what Kesey wrote in Cuckoo's Nest with Dale Harding's "two white birds" "carved from soap" versus McMurphy's calloused pair filled with "blood and power."

Dirty hands are not a big thing for me. Covering your hands with a coat of 30wt motor oil will do. For Knuckle Buster jobs, like working around sheet metal appliances and Nissan Autos I usually wear thin leather gloves or the Nitral Dipped Harbor Freight work gloves. Both about 10 bucks USD.

OH, I have got a box of cheap thin plastic Poly Food Handlers gloves that I use quite often when handling epoxies, and urithain glues. They are much easier to get in and out of them and they don't spoil in the Texas garage heat.


5 USD for 500

And likely future crippling arthritis, or so a friend told me

I always grimaced when I saw RJ the Bike Guy using solvents and chemicals with his bare hands. I have a box of Costco nitrile gloves that I use with drivetrain stuff or any cleaning, but now that I know thicker, more tear-resistant gloves exist, I might get some of those.

I wear nitrile gloves when it's cold in the garage.

Marc

game changing & life altering. OK maybe I'm exaggerating. those thick yellow textured ones above might be too thick. I've used some like that & for some jobs they are overkill

Been seeing all the gloved hands in the "What have you been wrenching on" thread.
Made me think, Hummmm, when did that change?
Probably about the time when folks started signaling lane changes and picking up their dog shirt....
Musta been asleep for a decade around then.

I keep misreading the title as "white gloves while wrenching"

What I do is before removing them wash your hands with them on, let them dry and pull them off inside out. And then when I got to reuse them I roll them right side out and try to inflate them like a balloon and all the fingers pop into place.

I stop in to visit my friends at the fire dept once in awhile. I can always grab a box of gloves from the ambulance. I’ll wear them when doing grease jobs or anything nasty, I probably wouldn’t buy them though.

White gloves are what you wear to assemble your NOS or freshly painted bike.