My hands get wet using my rubber gloves

Mar 29, 2007 26 Replies

Serious now, please.



I go and get some high-priced super chemical-resistent rubber gloves for doing the washing up. A few seconds after starting I cut a small hole in the gloves. What an **** idiot!



Ok, get a dishwasher. Wash sharp knives separately. I know, I know. But nothing seems to stop them getting holed.



Happens every few days. Am getting sick of this so no I'm going to patch the nearly-new glove with a hole.



But that's where it gets hard. If I use a self-adhesive repair patch for a bicycle inner tube (inside and maybe outside too (if the "hole" is actually more like a small cut) then the hot water.



What sort of adhesive would make a good repair of the glove? Some adhesives make the the rubber deform (it takes a few days). Would a contact adhesive resist the heat of the water better? I like the water hot.



Can anyone help. Am sure there could be lots of crazy replies and that's ok,. but I also want to fix this!


"super chemical-resistent"

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You want a chemical resistent glove, that is not resistent to chemicals?

Surgeons have this problem all the time. They use thin gloves, and they put on multiple layers.

Put surgical gloves (like a bicycle inner tube) on under your thick gloves (like the tread on a bicycle tire). Won't be perfect, but will be better.

David A. Smith

You don't say how you damaged them but it can be helpful if you keep your nails short. No rubber gloves are expected to last indefinetely. Just buy two pair. When one fails you will always have the other pair. Then, next time you go out buy one pair. That way you will always have a replacement. If you want to be really cheap then replace only the damaged one and continue using the one thats undamaged.

Never put sharp knives in the washing up bowl. It is dangerous. Keep them outside the bowl and be careful when washing them!

Philip

Why wear gloves at all - washing-up liquid's not *that* harmful to the skin. At least if you cut your hands instead of the gloves, nature will repair them!

[That was my mother's logic for sending me out in short trousers when I was a kid, anyway - skin would re-grow on knees, but cloth wouldn't mend itself!]

|!Serious now, please. |! |!I go and get some high-priced super chemical-resistent rubber gloves for |!doing the washing up. A few seconds after starting I cut a small hole |!in the gloves. What an **** idiot!

Try Glovelies they are, strong, not expensive and good enough for washing up, and mucky jobs.

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Get different gloves!

They make gloves for welders, mountain climbers, deep-sea divers, astronauts, and other abusive conditions - you should be able to find something that would work with Palmolive!

Try Harbor Freight. They have gloves with leather tips and all sorts of permutations. Some as low as 99 cents a pair.

Whiting and Davis. Mail reinforced gloves.

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Kevlar.

Here's a crazy idea: Learn to wash sharp knives like a smart person. This is not rocket science. I'd explain it, but if you can't figure it out for yourself, I doubt it would help.

Don't bother with gloves.

years ago I used alcohol as a cleaner at work in bare hands, tough on hands in winter my hands would crack.

When it got bad I would lather my hands with cream, put on those rubber gloves at bedtime. uncomfy but you get used to it, better than bleeding hands.

I dont use goves for much of anything

your a woman and you can't wash up ?

are you some sort of idiot !

why not ring your mum and do it in pairs - that what most women seem to do these days for every activity

you have so little on your mind you ask about this !

i'm sure you could say that about me but i really had to reply to this , more proof that women are stupid

:)

Now THAT is serious.

-- Oren

"If things get any worse, I'll have to ask you to stop helping me."

If you don't want to let the water touch your skin, might I suggest papier mache gloves. I am quite adept at making various objects from papier mache, it would be my pleasure to fashion you a pair of sturdy kitchen helpers.

If you would like a pair then please email me a recent photograph of your hands. If you decide that you don't want the gloves, could you please email me a photograph of your hands anyway?

Thanks

Did your hand slip and hit you in the forehead?

-- Oren

"The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!"

And whatever you do, DON'T RUN WITH SCISSORS!!!!!

Start of a new sentence, should be capital Y and it's spelled You're.

Questions should have a question mark at the end of them.

I'd be here all night if I picked out all the other errors with your posting.

Sorry, but I also had to reply to this, when you're trying to slate someone, especially for being stupid, try not to make yourself look like a moron.

Charlie.

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