National Aeronca Association Bulletin Board

The latex glove is the best tool for this job. I packed bearing minutes ago after removing skis. The transition to typing was quick and clean.

Max Hanft wrote:The latex glove is the best tool for this job. I packed bearing minutes ago after removing skis. The transition to typing was quick and clean.

I would usually agree with this but the grease also does a very good job of cleaning the dirt and such from your hands afterwards. Depends on if you have been doing any work on the plane (and your hands are a bit dirty) beforehand.

I keep a box or bad of latex gloves around ALL the time (cars, airplanes and in the house) and they are a really good tool.

Joe A

I buy latex gloves by the case. I use them in the shop for just about anything involving oil, grease, paint, cleaning, etc.

Dennis

Gloves are great, but if you're safety-minded it's not enough; they don't protect you from the volatiles. Learned that the hard way. You'll do more damage through the skin than you'll ever do breathing in the fumes.

So use some barrier cream!

nkh

Personally (at my age) I get nervous when I see someone put a rubber glove on .

Mike Berg

Mike,

I have often wondered what the garbage man thinks of all the used latex gloves if he looks inside my garbage bags.

Dennis

MikeB wrote:Personally (at my age) I get nervous when I see someone put a rubber glove on .

Mike Berg

Aint that the truth Mike!

I found that nitrile gloves are better for handling solvents and petroleum products. Latex seems to leak the odor through with these items and I hate the smell of current mogas, it really stinks.

In the old days mogas actually smelled good although it was probably killing you at the time it was smelling good.

I get my nitrile gloves from Harbor Freight, WM has them but the price is about 10x greater. They are a nice blue color too!!