Technical Cleaning Your Hands.......I found a new (for me)way

To get rid of the top layer of dirt, I use a towel from that yellow can called "Tub O' Towels" before I come in the house, then Dawn dish soap with a scrub brush.

 

Best I have found is Joe's hand cleaner. With or without water.

Ben

 

I use what ever I have, gojo, goop etc but I add a couple drops of dawn dish washing soap.

It works great and leaves my hands soft. The gojo lifts the grease and the dawn suspends it so I don't end up with a "greasy film" or smear marks on my hands and Arms.

The guys at work wonder how I come out so clean. It's toughest challenge is when doing a drum brake job complete with a axle seal leaking 90 wt gear lube all over the brake shoes with brake dust and brake fluid added into the mix, gotta be the nastiest combo to clean.

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I too have gotten used to working with gloves. Honestly, it has impacted my fine tactile ability very minimally, but it has greatly reduced the amount of nicks and cuts that I used to end up with. If I'm doing some particularly fine work, I'll take them off and just clean my hands later. But most jobs aren't like that. My hands stay in much better shape now and I wish I made the move years ago.

I used to use the thin nitrile gloves, basically BBQ prep gloves, but they tore easily. When I ran out of them, I tried basic latex gloves instead and they have been much better. I've found them to be stretchier, and they will stretch before tearing. I have an account with Restaurant Depot (as anyone with a tax ID number should), and just buy them there in bulk where they're cheap. But honestly, you can get the same stuff on Amazon Prime for about the same price.

 

Sos and hot water.

 

Pant legs for me.

 

I hate to think of all the stuff I’ve used over the years. The last ten or fifteen I try to use gloves, nitrile or leather. To clean I use Dawn and one of my favourites I found here on the HAMB is hair shampoo! Sometimes if my hands are really greasy I use 10-30W as a first step, it really loosens up the tough stuff. And don’t even think of suggesting where I should put a dip stick!

 

I just have dirty hands!

 

Working in a marina in the 1960s I had a one gallon glass jug that the label said "sulfuric acid" that I had filled with acetone. At the end of a painting job I took it out of my truck and asked my co worker if he wanted to clean the paint off his hands. He said I was crazy as I was pouring some into my hand.

 

I know a guy who was a real prankster. He worked in a big machine shop that had one of those round industrial sinks in the bathroom. Everyone breaks for lunch, gather around the round sink, one guy presses the foot ring to start the water. SURPRISE... my buddy got there early and flipped the ring and everyone got sprayed in the face. No big deal to turn the ring over. 2nd try, everyone soaps up with the Borax soap... SURPRISE... my buddy dumped a box of RIT blue fabric dye into the soap dispensers. A few guys walked around for a week looking like a Smurf.

 

Just teach a day old calf to drink from a pail, that always does the trick.

 

Yes but , if you also need to get that dirt out of your fingernails mixing a meatloaf by hand works best! Who wants to come over for dinner?

 

I use gloves as much as possible. The summit hand cleaners work great, even the paint remover version. I also use Ivory soap and keep it in the garage so I can wash my hands outside, or I’ll grab some dish soap.

 

What if the Shang-las were right ?

Big bulky sweaters to match his eyes (tell me more)
Dirty fingernails (tell me more)
Oh boy, what a prize (tell me more)
Tight, tapered pants, high button shoes (he's so cool)
He's always looking like he's got the blues (he's so cool)
And when I see him in the street
My heart takes a leap and skips a beat
Gonna walk right up to him
Give him a great big kiss, mwah!
Tell him that I love him, tell him that I care
Tell him that I'll always be there

 

I wear gloves at work, but frequently don't at home. As posted on the last page, Stoko Kresto is the stuff. I usually follow up with some Dawn dish soap.

Devin

 

I picked up the Dawn habit while trailer trucking. The tractor fifth wheel needs to be kept coated with grafited grease.
It squishes out and gets around, brake airlines, frame rail, and trailer edge.
Then winds up on hands etc., Leaving them black stained.
Dawn made life much better, with little grief.

 

Would have to occasionally pick up parts from a competetive GM dealer. They also had one of those large communal sinks in the employees' restroom. If I stopped to take a leak before I left I always made sure to tell them how cool I thought that big round urinal in the middle of the room was!

 

That’s not right

 

Anti-Seize, since it always seems to get on me anyways and the dirt don't stick to it!

 

Wow! I even managed to repulse Clint Eastwood!

 

I used to have a buddy who was a "tankerman"- which included papers for piloting ships in harbor. "Tankerman's Friend" is Dawn- squirt it on a small oil spill and it's gone- but don't get caught with a bottle of Dawn on deck

 

Back when I was a kid in the late 60's early '70's my uncle was a mechanic at a buick/olds/gmc dealership in Santa Maria. I went with him one evening after hours to help him with a valve grind, I remember us rubbing some product called ProTect on our hands before getting dirty. When we were done, we washed our hands with regular old soap and water. Seemed to work but I have not seen that product in quite a while...

Grant

 

I do the same thing -- with soap-- except when I forget.

Ben

 

Actually, that wasn't about your post. It was a reaction to a three page thread about how to wash one's hands, lmfao.... Sorry, it's just me I guess.

Can we get a good thread next on how guys are moisturizing to keep those hands nice and supple?!?!? Maybe a good one on the best hair color to remove just the right amount of gray from our hair! Lmfao....

 

The worst messes I dealt with were when I worked at an auto wrecker, diesel trucks that "caught" fire.

 

You're aware that it contains powdered copper, lead , zinc and other heavy metals as primary ingredients.
At a safety course on toxic materials once, the instructor informed us that when a substance comes in contact with skin, 3 minutes later it's on its way to your liver & kidneys

 

Ok Guys........a million different ways people do it. Some require going to the house or using two differnt things or whatever. All somewhat inconvenient and usually done when the job is done. The thing I'm trying to point out is that you can do ongoing hand cleanings quickly and simply when dealing wth a dirty job or one that needs cleanliness.......like assembling an engine.

All I'm asking is that you TRY SIMPLE GREEN ONE TIME. If you don't like it you can use it for other cleaning till its used up.....nothing lost. BUT TRY IT........ I'll never buy Goop or anything else again. If you actually try it, THEN tell us what you think.

 

As a kid I watched my my grandpa use gasoline and paint thinner to clean his dirty hands. I saw that it worked and did it after working on my bikes. I kept doing that after I got my first car. I then tried acetone since it worked great on degreasing car parts. Never had any kidney or other problems 50 years later. I switched to simple green when it came out. I still use it too but I went to wearing nitrile gloves for the last 20 years. I still use simple green because I always manage to rip those POS gloves.

 

I've been using this tub of "Atomic Asbestoline Hand Cleaner" my grandad bought from Western Auto in the '50's. It's the damnedest stuff. Cleans all the way to the bone. It never runs out. The tub is always full.




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