nitrile gloves

[macbruce]

I typically don't rave about anything HF has to offer but these gloves really cut it. I was using the blue smurf nitrate gloves and they go south if you look at em funny. These are bomb proof and I can pick up a dime with em. http://www.harborfre...arge-68512.html

[Old N Rusty]

I am getting ready to pressure wash my powerhammer with gasoline, it needs cleaning so bad, but I was so concerned with my manicure and nail polish that i just couldn't. Thanks for the heads-up on these gloves, they should help.

This is dangerous in so many ways. See post below

[SoCal Dave]

Macbruce: Why are the black nitrile glove so much more expensive? Have you tried the others, like the blue, at half the price?

[Glenn]

I am getting ready to pressure wash my powerhammer with gasoline, it needs cleaning so bad, but I was so concerned with my manicure and nail polish that i just couldn't. Thanks for the heads-up on these gloves, they should help.

ONR This scares me in so many different ways.

Gasoline should only be used as a motor fuel, and stored only when absolutely necessary. It should not be used as a solvent, cleaner, fire-starter, or for any other non-engine use. Gasoline vapors are highly flammable and can ignite at temperatures as low as -45 degrees Celsius. A single cup of gasoline, when vaporized and ignited, has the explosive power of five sticks of dynamite.
Reference

The motor of the electric pressure washer arcs and sparks, and is near where your working. If it is engine driven, there are sparks available from many sources. I have seen gasoline vapors travel across the ground. When it meets an ignition source BOOM.

There are plenty of good solvents out there. Please consider another method of cleaning that hammer.

[Farmall]

If you read the ad, the black ones are 9 mils thick and the 100 powder blue ones for 6.99 are 5 mils thick. Reckon you could wear two on each hand and have 10 mils thick.....

[Backwoods Blacksmith]

I wear the blue ones under my welding gloves when welding in the rain. Which you have to do if you live in Oregon.

[fciron]

Huh, a friend was just over at the shop today telling me how much they prefer the black nitrile gloves at his place. He's got two employees so the glove have to last longer for him to pay more for them. Guess I'll be getting some when the current supply runs out.

[ptree]

At the plant we use Nitrile gloves, and the powder blue are about 5 mil. they are not very durable. We also use black nitrile that are 9 mil and longer and are more durable. Now ours don't come from HF, but i think the extra thickness is worth the extra cost. For heavy use cleaning and so forth, go with a real glove that is more the 0.009" thick.

[fciron]

I didn't realize the color was thickness coded. I just figured they had the black gloves because they looked tougher.

I use the gloves when I'm getting greasy/oily or to keep paint stuff off my hands. Big thick gloves with long cuffs for scrubbing the toilets or messing with acid. :-)

[ptree]

Not really color coded. You have to read the box. I have seen 5, 7,and 9 mil in black

[SmoothBore]

I was under the impression, ( but I've been wrong before ) that the blue/green ones were for "Chemical" applications, and the black ones were resistant to petroleum products.

[David Kailey]

i wear the 14mil "thicksters" and i keep baby powder in the shop so i can use them untill they tear. I had on pair last me 4 days!!!!

[clinton]

I just scored about 100 pairs of surgeons gloves at an estate sale. They came in "handy" when I had to snake out the drain from my kitchen sink. These gloves are tough as nails.

[Fe-Wood]

I have the black ones from HF. I agree, Good Gloves... About the only thnig HF has to offer....

[Bob Menard]

One note of caution about nitrile gloves, they are quite flammable. Throw one in the forge and you will see what I am talking about.
It is a good demonstration of why you would not want to be wearing it around open flame.

[Robert Yates]

Yes they Are Bob I wont ever weld in a pair any more ! was working on a truck needed to weld a small weld put a welding glove on one hand not the other ... a hot bead hit my hand with the Nitrate glove and poof up in smoke and burnt my hand too . lesson learned (use Both Leather gloves when welding !)

Sam