Hand cleaner

[crazybastid83]

I have tried "Worx" hand cleaner, it is pretty good. I now use Snap on's "Nitro Gold". It works even better. Is there anything better out there? Another question for anyone who works in a shop. Does the job provide you with hand cleaners or rubber gloves. The shop I work at jerks us around and never buys soap or gloves. Is it normal to have to buy your own as well as tools and shop equipment they never seem to get around to buying?

[duke76]

As for soap what you have is pretty decent stuff,  The shop I work at supplies soap and gloves and most other shops that I know of do the same, we have to buy our own hand tools but the shop usually takes care of the specialty tools.  We also get a 75 dollar a month toll allowance which is awesome,  I just wished they would have started that 15 years ago when I started wrenching.  Todd

[dablaze]

My second or third date with my wife I showed up and she pointed out that I had grease on my hand from wrenchin on my Shovel. I just grabbed a bit of the butter (we were in a restaurant) and a bit of sugar, mixed em and wiped it off with a napkin and then continued eating. Her eyes went wide, the word "redneck" was mentioned and I thought I had blown it...but eventually she married me (I did give her a spare bike I had lying around after about a month of dating)


Craig

[tinkerman]

I spend part of my working hours up to my wrists in grease. All we keep around the shop is one of the orange oil/pumice hand cleaners. They seem to do the job for us....maybe dries out the hands a bit. You can get similar pumice cleaners with lanolen (sic?) to keep your hands from drying out. I don't work in a typical shop environment but we provide all tools, gloves, handcleaners for all our crews.

I find no matter what hand cleaner is in use there will always be traces of what you do for a living on your hands. I usually volunteer to do the dishes at our crew accomodations and that finishes up what the handcleaner doesn't get.

tink

[sedgar2]

I've been using ZEP's handcleaner for about 10 years and found it to be a good product. I used to work in a shop where the hand cleaner wasn't a priority (always running out), ever drive home with hands that haven't been cleaned? Specially on hot summer afternoon. Gloves are optional, but hand cleaner should be in good supply, charged to customers as 'shop supplies"!

[rad3766]

On my boat the company provides us with hand soap, usually Go Jo, or orange pumice Go-Jo.
I order those blue nitrile gloves from Grainger, slip it in with other stuff I'm orderin for the boat.
Used to work for a truck dealer, they ordered some kinda cheap powdered hand cleaner, come in a 35 gal container, that stuff would tear ya up, was just like washing with sand.   

[crazycalvin]

I like plain old white GO-JO; the original stuff.  When my hands are really dirty, I rub the stuff on until the grease is loose; then a dry rag to clean it all off.  Then repeat and use soap and water to clean the GO-JO off.  My company supplies all cleaning supplies and gloves.  Later, Calvin.

[IndyHarley]

Go-Jo orange is what I have used for years. I believe it is also cheaper than most but then again i am not sure about that as I just buy it and don't look at others - I buy it in the gallon pump containers.

[ChopperBob66]

Used ZEP when I had my paint shop. They make a stuff called Painters Helper. It is the ONLY thing that would remove even dried urethane paint from skin and fingernails. Susequently used it for general hand cleaner. It removes 100% of everything. Don't know if they are still around, but it was awesome stuff.

[xxxflhrci]

Before you start wrenching, scratch a dry bar of soap.  The soap will go under your fingernails and keep the grease out.  The soap goes away when you wash your hands.

[hotroadking]

Before you start wrenching, scratch a dry bar of soap.  The soap will go under your fingernails and keep the grease out.  The soap goes away when you wash your hands.

That's thinking with yer dipstick.... JImmy lol

[panheaddreamer58]

I sell a bunch of Joe's hand cleaner. Seems to be some good stuff and also eliminates smell on hands. 

http://www.joeshandcleaner.com/