Mechanics Gloves: Keeping Your Hands In Good Condition

It used to be that you could always tell a mechanic by his hands. Their hands always had small nicks, scrapes and scars and even when a mechanic washed with those awful strong detergents, if you looked really close, you could see the grease in their hands crevices that just never seemed to wash completely out. Today, thanks to mechanics gloves men and women mechanics can keep their hands in good condition. Most people would never know what they did for a living.

Mechanics gloves keep a mechanic from experiencing those small yet, painful burns from touching a car part that is too hot. They also keep the fingers and wrists from getting scraped up and cut on those rougher parts of an engine they are working on. This results in making the job a little easier and a little less painful. It's difficult to concentrate on the job at hand when your knuckle is bleeding from getting cut on a car part while your palm is throbbing from touching that hot pipe.

Mechanics gloves are not like regular gloves, they are designed to provide extra protection for the mechanics hands. Sure, these gloves can provide warmth in a cold garage but they also need to be well padded to prevent burns and cuts. Mechanics gloves need to be heat resistant and able to withstand strong chemicals like gasoline while still allowing the mechanic the dexterity he needs to perform his job. After all, those gloves aren't going to do you much good if you cannot feel to thread that nut.

When you stop to think about mechanics gloves, they help to keep a mechanic healthier too. Let's face it being a mechanic is dirty work those vehicle or plane engines not only are greasy and oily but are dirty as well. A mechanic who nicks his hand and then works on an engine is subjecting that cut to all kinds of bacteria for hours on end before he washes his hands. That gives bacteria time to grow and start an infection, which can be painful and even serious. By wearing proper hand protection, the mechanic not only avoids getting those nicks and cuts but also avoids most of the dirt all together.

Of course wearing hand protection also keeps all that grease and oil from soaking into a mechanics skin, which means that he can enjoy dinner with his in-laws or even the president of the United States without worrying about being embarrassed by those dark creases on his hands.

While not all mechanics choose to wear gloves for those mechanics who do choose to wear mechanics gloves these gloves keep their hands in good condition.

Protect your hands without giving up your career with a great pair of Mechanics Gloves

By Scott K Foster