Gloves to wear for gun cleaning.

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I keep a pack of latex gloves in my cleaning toolbox that I occasionally use. It's mostly smell related. The cleaning chemicals have never bothered me, but that smell tends to stick for a while. Even wearing the gloves they seem to seep through and impart SOME smell, but it's more faint, and doesn't last as long.
 
The mechanic's gloves will not protect you from solvents- they are permeable to liquids. They are great for protection from heat and abrasion, like working on cars. I like the nitrile ones for chemical use.
 
jcwit said:
I do not wear gloves, simple as that. But then I do wash my hands.
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FYI you'd be surprised to learn how quickly carcinogenic solvents are absorbed through the skin.

I'm not your mother so I'm not going to tell you to wear gloves or eat your veggies. But for those who don't wear gloves, washing your hands may get rid of the smell and the stains, but any damage to your system has already been done. As noted above, people who work with chemicals and solvents usually get scared enough to wear appropriate gloves whenever they deal with them.
 
On a side note

I just found out those are the ones my wife uses, for work. She is a "hair colorist" and works with bleach and 20-100 volume peroxide , along with 5 diffetent types of color so i guess they are the best, she has been using them for a long time. But the way she goes through them, 20 pair a day, it must get expensive.Her hands always hurt, now I know why after 35 years of working with toxic color. I get a kick when I see those ads on tv that say no peroxide, but don't ,they use ammonia instead. If you guys have wives who get that Keratin or Brazillian hair straightening product, be careful, make them stop, my old business associate is on qvc and hsn, all the time "depending on the company", pushing that "harmless" product that will make any hair stick straight.
Truth is it's toxic, some still have formalehyde in them.Will cause cancer, studies are being done now.link:
http://thestir.cafemom.com/beauty_style/125796/the_brazilian_blowout_might_kill
Some people will do anything for money, tell your wives and daughters to stay away from this, a lot of women get it, and you won't know, or be aware about it so im telling you here, so you know. Just a departure from guns for our familys sake.
 
FYI you'd be surprised to learn how quickly carcinogenic solvents are absorbed through the skin.

I'm not your mother so I'm not going to tell you to wear gloves or eat your veggies. But for those who don't wear gloves, washing your hands may get rid of the smell and the stains, but any damage to your system has already been done. As noted above, people who work with chemicals and solvents usually get scared enough to wear appropriate gloves whenever they deal with them.
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At the age of 68 any long term exposure to carcinogenics is not necessarly a worry to me. As far as cancer, been there, done that. Get right down to it lead, gasoline, are only 2 more chemicals that are carcinogenic, do you wear gloves when you pump your gas? Now come on, be honest!

Walk down a city street where there's traffic and you're in danger from the fumes, and don't forget burning leaves in the fall!
 
jcwit said:
At the age of 68 any long term exposure to carcinogenics is not necessarly a worry to me. As far as cancer, been there, done that. Get right down to it lead, gasoline, are only 2 more chemicals that are carcinogenic, do you wear gloves when you pump your gas? Now come on, be honest!

Walk down a city street where there's traffic and you're in danger from the fumes, and don't forget burning leaves in the fall!
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Well you might as well start huffing chlorinated brake cleaner then, seeing as how you're safe. :D

No, I don't wear gloves when I pump gas. But I don't get gas on my hands when I pump gas. I DO get solvent and other potentially hazardous chemicals on my hands when I clean guns, and work on motorcycles.

See the difference?;)
 
Easy, use ..........

........Ballistol. Started using it for black powder and now use it on everything. Just spray or swab it in and let it work awhile. I do admit to using different lubes and such. My favorite being FP-10.
 
One thing to keep in mind when you're picking a protective glove, most commercial cleaners are a blend of solvents, and many of them add acetone to the blend because it's a pretty potent solvent in its own right, it dries very fast, and it's not considered an air pollutant under EPA guidelines.

The problem is, acetone penetrates even nitrile gloves very quickly, it passes through the skin readily, and it carries with small quantities of whatever other stuff is blended with it. The nitrile gloves look like they're protecting you better because they don't dissolve as quickly as latex, but because they're not falling apart doesn't mean they providing a protective barrier. For some blends nitrile is a good choice, for others, it's worse than useless because it makes you think you're protected so you get careless and don't try to minimize contact with the contaminants.
 
Disposable nitrile gloves are about perfect. They're comfortable and they have a good breakthrough time (time required for penetration by chemical) for cleaning a single firearm. If you are going to have a longer session cleaning multiple guns outside simply double up on the gloves and peel the outer pair off if you detect any change in them. This way even if you get some penetration of the outer glove the inner will provide the needed protection. Be sure to purchase a size that fits.
 
I keep the solvent on the gun, patch and brush and don't wear gloves. Been doing it this way for 50 years and it's not difficult if you pay attention.

If I'm going to hose down a shotgun barrel, or an entire shotgun, with gunscrubber I'll grab an old electrical/chemical glove I keep for furniture stripping. You know, the kind that stands up by itself and has permanently curled fingers.

John
 
But for those who don't wear gloves, washing your hands may get rid of the smell and the stains, but any damage to your system has already been done.
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So, I'm genuinely curious now. What kinds of long-term effects on the body are you concerned about? I mean, folks have been cleaning guns with very similar solvents for generations, and I'm not sure I've ever heard of anyone suffering illness that was somehow traced back to decades of exposure of gun oil.
 
See the difference?
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No I do not see the difference, or very little. We have been conditioned by gov. agencies ie: the EPA, OSHA, ect that just about everything requires a hazmet suit to use. Like I said at my age its a non issue. If you wish to wear gloves, have at it, the question was "what gloves to wear" I stated I do not wear gloves, now it seems I need to defend my position not to wear gloves.

Ever read the lable on a bottle of Spic & Span, how bout a bottle of windshield washer fluid, of for that matter a bottle of rubbing alcohol. Seems this world is a very dangerous place, wonder how anyone gets past the age of 30.

BTW, I do not own ANY brake cleaner, I'm terrified to work on my brakes, don't the brake shoes contain asbestos? Or at least they used to.

Be careful, don't breath any of that hazardous fumes coming from the barrel at the range. And be sure to wear gloves when reloading your magazines or clips or whatever.

Last bit of info, don't move to CA. where most everything carries a hazardous lable, even the brass plumbing fittings.
 
jcwit said:
the question was "what gloves to wear"
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Exactly.

Not sure why this became a debate about whether to wear gloves or not. I stated my dissatisfaction with that from other threads before I started this thread.

I asked what type of gloves to wear. "no gloves" is not a type of glove....
 
Oh sorry.

I took it as the old adage of not having to wash your hands after urinating because you were taught not to wizz on your hands. Which to me implies anyone who washes their hands after urinating is some sort of clutz or moron.

If that was not the intent, I apologize
 
This has gotten DUMB.

I think I can truly say I've now seen the STUPIDEST reason to get angry with another person.

What is it about communicating via electrons that makes folks lose all sense of civility, propriety, humor, forbearance, and proportion?

[Senator Claghorn]"Suh, you have offended, I say, offended my sacred honor! I demand, I say, demand an apology!"[/Senator Claghorn]
 
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