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Do you use gloves when cleaning your firearms?

Do you use a lead-off type of soap after cleaning or shooting?
 
I do for the simple reason, if I need to do something else right then, like pick up the baby, get a pup, or anything else that I don’t want wrapped up in cleaning solutions, I just take the gloves off. Same with cooking, I use gloves.
 
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I don't care about touching lead or getting schmutz on my hands. But if I have to use a solvent then yes, I wear gloves. I 100% always wash my hands after shooting or reloading. I don't use special soap unless that's what they actually put in the D-lead dispenser at the range. I never believed it was anything other than regular soap.
 
If I’m doing multiple chores and do not want to wash my hands going from chore to chore I’ll wear gloves. But like Red Marley said above, they usually end up tearing. No special soap. Just what ever the wife has at the sink. Usually some form of Dial antibacterial liquid soap.

At my old job, they had some hand wipes that were designed to remove lead. Only because there wasn’t running water at the range. You had go about 1/2 mile to get back to the restrooms. I used them once or twice. Felt like a regular baby wipe to me.
 
Usually no, but sometiems yes and occasionally gloves.

I like being unpredictable. You can tell by the way I shoot, too!
 
If I'm doing a quick once over after some range time I don't bother with gloves. I usually do glove up when I'm setting down doing some deep cleaning. No special soaps or wipes are used for handwashing afterward just dawn. Or some lava soap if hands get real dirty from gloves ripping off.
 
I wrenched from 1973 -1978. Not a long time.

Nobody wore gloves. Lots of oil changes, trans services, bearing packing, among other things. Covered in used lubricants every day. Some days I washed my hands in the varsol parts cleaning station, then GoJo.

Was that bad for me? They say it is.
 
fieldgrade said:
I wrenched from 1973 -1978. Not a long time.

Nobody wore gloves. Lots of oil changes, trans services, bearing packing, among other things. Covered in used lubricants every day. Some days I washed my hands in the varsol parts cleaning station, then GoJo.

Was that bad for me? They say it is.
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I was mechanics assistant on the family farm around then. My dad used to sit me down with the viscera of a tractor engine, hand me a brush and a bucket of gasoline (leaded, of course) and put me to work. Had to be terrible for me. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
 
If I am doing several at one time or soaking a cosmoline preserved gun in odorless mineral spirits.
 
Catfish said:
I was mechanics assistant on the family farm around then. My dad used to sit me down with the viscera of a tractor engine, hand me a brush and a bucket of gasoline (leaded, of course) and put me to work. Had to be terrible for me. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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Pretty much the same, gas was the universal solvent. Used it to clean up after painting the fence too.
 
Catfish said:
I was mechanics assistant on the family farm around then. My dad used to sit me down with the viscera of a tractor engine, hand me a brush and a bucket of gasoline (leaded, of course) and put me to work. Had to be terrible for me. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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You left out: "It made me the man I am today!" :)
 
Friday said:
Do you use gloves when cleaning your firearms?

Do you use a lead-off type of soap after cleaning or shooting?
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“No” to both.

Lost count of the times I’ve been doing cleaning/maintenance or reloading and in between firearms or a batch of reloads, hit my hands with a baby wipe/hand sanitizer then, start gnawing on a ham sandwich or a pack of Nabs.

Stuff’s probably what gave me cancer…lol.
 
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Used to use the spray degreaser for circuit boards to get the grease off my hands before chow... I think they recalled /banned it around 1980 or so. Something about carcinogenic properties or whatever... never hurt me.

No gloves. No special soap. If uncle Sam didn't kill me or give me cancer a little gun cleaning isn't going to either.
 
No and no. You think that is worse than the mold in your HVAC equipment and ductwork? If you have duct-board ducting slice a hole in the side and look in. You will go from worrying about lead poison to lung damage. Better yet you should see what’s inside restaurants ice machines. You think they clean those things of the pink and black mold and thick snotty slime. It is very, very rare.
 
Yes, I’ll wear glovers, but not because I’m concerned about chemical contact. I just don’t like how it’s hard to wash the smell away.
 
I wear gloves since the solvent dries out my skin and the smell won't go away. Plus I can just take them off when I'm done and don't have to fumble around trying to use my elbows to open doors and stuff (edit: my stuff gets COVERED in carbon from using suppressors). I started using D-Lead after shooting or handling firearms more recently. It has a chemical bonder for lead along with surfactants to wash away the bonded lead.

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tl;dr: they dusted hands with lead powder, cleaned them, swabbed to see how much lead powder remained.

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No, too much trouble unless I'm into something really really dirty or greasy, like cosmoline
 
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