Gloves

[drummerboy82]

What are your thoughts on gloves and machines? What kind do you use for what job? I personally like Hyflex Lite from Ansell when handling parts. They're lite enough to still be able to "feel" yet have enough protection to keep your hands from getting cut up. Of course when using bench equipment, I'm pretty strict with using no gloves. Occasionally though, I have to do some rework on a lathe by sanding the inside of a bore with the spindle turning. Instead of no gloves, I will put on a pair of latex gloves. I figure if it grabs the glove, it will rip off and I'll still have all my fingers. Haven't had an incident yet while doing this. What are your thoughts on this?


Phil

[jeffrey001]

I've been a machinist for the last 25 years.

2 years ago, almost lost my arm working on a lathe wearing glove.

As I was a very experimented machinist, conventional and CNC, I tough that working with glove while sanding a shaft (wearing glove because it was pretty hot) was not a big deal. I knew it was very dangerous but you all know that we do things that we should not do, even if we know that it is dangerous. I never tough that this could happen to me.

I'm a very lucky guy being alive to tell you that.

I stay 19 days at hospital getting surgeries to get my arm working again (If I could say so) but I will never work again in a company as a machinist, my arm is not strong enough.

So, when I ear somebody saying he is working on a lathe or any other machines wearing glove, I say , this can happen to you too.


Jeff

[Geof]

Even latex gloves can be dicey because they sometimes will not tear quickly enough.

Also when sanding inside a bore do not use your fingers, make up a little holder for the sanding cloth; cut a slit in the end of the piece of wood, slide a small length of sanding cloth into the slit and warap it around the wood and sand with this.

[MrWild]

And yet all of Glacern's videos show their machinist wearing gloves.

[HuFlungDung]

Lathe operators and drill press operators should avoid using gloves when the machine is in motion. Yes, it is better for you to get cut, than to imagine that you are invincible with gloves on and stick your fingers where you shouldn't. In the long run, this false sense of protection is what gets people hurt. But by all means, put your gloves on to handle chips or do deburring.

[Ricky Doherty]

The opinions expressed in this post are my own and are not necessarily those of CNCzone and its management)

[littlerob]

It'd be a lot cooler if there were opinions expressed with the disclaimers.

No gloves, with motor driven machinery. The problem is that by the time it starts to hurt it's too late. Without gloves it hurts fast, you get away fast, and you end up with something to talk to girls about, (for a few minutes anyway, they really don't want to hear about the appropriate chipload for 300 series).

Robert

[arie kabaalstra]

wearing Gloves when operating a Machine is a "No Go" for me, i've already seen too much accidents happening with that..

a colleague once thought that he could knock away some drill swarf while wearing gloves.. he was pulled into the drill press.. it was a big one
another colleague was able to hit the emergency stop for him.. he was lying behind the spindle on the cross slide by then..

it bruised his arm quite badly,thoug he was lucky to escape with only that injury..

Another colleague lost a finger when wearing gloves while operating a roller, rolling a tube out of sheet Stainless steel.. glove caught a burr on the edge of the sheet, and pulled her hand in to the rollers

if i see any machinist working with gloves, i tell them my right foot is warming up for a good kick in the family jewels.. better a kick in the nuts, than losing a finger, or a hand... a lesson well taught..

[DouglasR]

Generally I hate the idea of gloves for anything other than lifting/handling raw materials or something that's hot. However, if you "must" I would think latex is a good choice, but if it was me, I would NOT wear them at all around moving machinery. I've been in the machine shop business since I was 9 (I'm now 47) and I still have all my digits.

[DanielBlair]

I usually wear gloves for protection from burns and scrapes. If the work does not cause burns or scrapes, I'd rather not wear those gloves. It's nice to feel the material you are working with anyway.

[Ros43Bur]

Then grouchiness sets in.

[keebler303]

I've seen a kid grab the spinning shaft on the drive for a commercial kitchen food processor with latex gloves on. The glove caught and did eventually tear but he got a good yanking from it first. Bruised fingernails and whatnot. If it had been a lathe or something with more parts to grab you, it could have been very bad.

No gloves is the only option.

Matt