What gloves do you use for applying dye?

[Alex Horvath]

Reason I ask, I had a horrible experience with the typical latex exam gloves. I was finishing my stairs and I had gloves on only because I was on my hands and knees and I noticed hand sweat/oil prints on the sanded areas when gloveless as I moved across the stairs. When I started using gloves to prevent this, I had the worst silicone contamination you could imagine. I think I stripped the stairs 3 times before I figured out it was the gloves!

I have not had a problem using the exam gloves when using dye probably because I don't really touch the wood directly but I think it's a risk.


Thanks

[Kent A Bathurst]

These. Latex-free.

They also make a powder-free version. I have used both. No problem with either when applying dye, stain, gel stain, filler, varnish, shellac, whatever. [I always use WB dye from Transfast powder. Not alcohol, because I do not have spray capability].


http://www.amazon.com/Nitrile-Gloves...nitrile+gloves

[John Coloccia]

One of the few things I purchase from Harbor Freight are their thin (3mm, I think), light duty disposable gloves. I really never thought about silicone contamination from my gloves! I've never had a problem with those. I guess I'm just lucky that they happen to carry nitrile gloves instead of latex.

[Bill White]

Just use nitrile gloves from HF.
They won't dissolve.
Bill

[glenn bradley]

Yep, I use my dwindling supply of latex gloves for all sorts of random stuff just to use them up, Nitrile or the heavier butyl rubber gloves when I need something to go further up the arm.

[Jim Rimmer]

+1 for nitrile

[Charles Li]

Don't know about dyes but heard about nitrile gloves from probably the same people on this thread and I won't use latex gloves ever again. They tear so easily. Can reuse nitrile many times over. The HF recommendation is spot on too. I think the HD price was almost double.

[scott vroom]

+1 Nitrile.

[Steve Baumgartner]

When you found the silicone contamination, what specific kind of gloves were you using? I can't imagine any reason for either latex or nitrile to contain any silicone, but maybe there is a specific brand or variety to avoid. BTW I also use the nitrile gloves from HF. The thin ones tear fairly easily, so if I'll be doing something aggressive I use the thicker black ones. The rest of the time the blue ones are fine.

[Andy Pratt]

nitrile 5-7mm thick, never had a problem with contamination, 5mm rips a little easily though

[Curt Harms]

Don't know about dyes but heard about nitrile gloves from probably the same people on this thread and I won't use latex gloves ever again. They tear so easily. Can reuse nitrile many times over. The HF recommendation is spot on too. I think the HD price was almost double.

I keep a container of baby powder near my HF nitrile gloves. A little puff of powder each time before putting them on helps them come off easier.

[Alan Lightstone]

Nitrile for sure. Never needed powder for them (put on gloves at least 100 times per day at work, non-powdered nitrile.)

[John TenEyck]

I've tried HD nitrile gloves and they don't stand up to alcohol. I often use Transtint in DNA, and it goes right through every glove I've tried. Anyone have a recommendation? Thanks

John