It's the way to go.!

 

There is not trick to getting your hand clean. If you start by wearing liquid glove similar to "Fast idle's response" it will help. Clean your hand regularily with fast orange or something with grit. Nail file brush will help. Using dish soap after will help remove some of the staining as well as help do dishes (soaking hands helps loosen grease). Good luck

 

been using the granular Tide for years, & the same box for the last 2... Wet your hands & add a small amount & you'll be amazed how clean your hands get & how far a little bit goes!!!

 

I use GoJo after I'm through and surgical gloves when I can. My mechanic friend puts hand lotion on before getting dirty. Other than the gloves, neither do much for nails-sorry.

Another tip is pressure wash or clean the offending area first so you won't get as much grease on you.

 

forget the gloves, i use tide with bleach to wash my hands.

 

Before I begin work on anything oily or greasy I coat my hands with dish soap and let it dry throughly. Ater I'm finished my hands clean up nicely.

 

I keep a jar of Vaseline in the garage.

 

I use a little brush, I think I found it in the "make-up" section of Wal-mart, it allows you to put 3 or 4 fingers in it and then I just get the brush wet, scrub a bar of Irish Spring Soap, get hands wet, and scrub with the "grain" of your finger prints, nails etc, get hands VERY clean. I first just wash my hands regularly to get majority of grease and grime.

Then I have to get the ajax out and clean the sink or my wife gets mad!!

 

I use good quality surgical gloves. I don't have a problem with tearing and my hands are always clean.
Washing dishes really helps clean your hands. Honestly. If my hands get stained for some reason I do the washing.
Maybe your wife could save the dishes for you.
I use a pumise?? soap. It is abrasive and does a good job after I have been shoing horses. Can't wear gloves there.

 

I use rubber coated cotton gloves, they are very thing and the rubber is thin also so you have a good feel for small stuff...doesn't keep your hands immaculately clean as the grip side is only coated, i use those for fine welding also (can't weld with those thick gloves), to clean my hands I use scrubbing soap (w/ crushed wallnuts) and soap & water. Used up coffee powder (ground beans) works well also when mixed with soap but the coffee smell is pretty bad LOL

 

Can't believe nobody has mentioned the oldest trick in the book.....just scratch your fingernails on an old bar of soap before you dig in. It feels a bit weird, but it works very well. Try it!

 

Embarassing? It shows you're someone that can whip out tools and do some REAL work. These pansies I live around all look at me in my drive way cleaning and sand blasting my frame like I'm a complete lunatic. They'd rather pay someone $100 to hang a picture in their house than do it themselves.....and I'm not kidding about that one!

Take pride in the fact your hands are a little dirty! You are a CRAFTSMAN, a lost art in a modern society bent on paying others what you know you can do for yourself.

 

I had to double check your forum name. For a minute, I thought that was a post by mr vette (that's a good thing)

 

Due to the frustration of almost universal incompetence, I do most everything myself. I build houses, plumbing, electrical...hell, I've even dug out a few septic tanks in my days.

BUT...when a woman looks at your dirty fingernails and says "Don't even think about putting those there!", something has to be done.

D. Ocean
Miami, FLA

 

Your scareing me lol

 

That's when you agree it's better with the lights OFF!

 

I don't have a wife or girlfriend so dirty finger nails don't bother me, they make me cool amoungst all my guy friends.
I wonder why I don't have a girlfriend?

Sometimes a fine grit sandpaper is the best way to get your fingers clean.

 

I tried the newer "mechanics gloves" but lost too much feeling for my tastes.

I have used cheap inexpensive surgical latex gloves from Harbor Freight for years now. I buy them in boxes of 100. Not only was I able to maintain great touch sensitivity, but I never hesitated to swap for a new pair during a job - as many times as I wanted to - because of their dirt-cheap price.

No matter what the task, I always come away with hands as clean as when I first started the project.

Lately though I have switched to using "nitrile" gloves. Same great touch sensitivity as the latex variety, but they seem to hold up better.

They are more expensive, but if you buy them during a HF sale, they are no more than the latex counterpart. In fact, they are on sale (half price) right now.

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=37052

 

This is by far the best hand cleaner you can use, I have tried them all.
go to this web site and have them send you a free sample. sorry this is long but you will learn something...

http://www.handscrub.com/index105.htm



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I use the nitrile gloves. Yeah - they tear after handling bare
castings for a while ... then slip on a new pair.

One mechanic friend of mine SWEARS by Crisco.
Yup - vegetable shortening. Grab a handful and just start
working it in like lotion. It forces all the dirty grease out
with clean grease. Then wash you hands with soap.