Rubber Gloves When Filling A Pen

[ca49reber]

I've never bought rubber gloves for any reason. Generally, washing my hair takes off any ink on my hands.

[NinthSphere]

Nah. I have nitrile gloves, but I don't generally get too much ink on my hands anyway & what I do tends to come off within the next day or so as I wash my hair.

[GardenWeasel]

No gloves. Those accidental stains help my memory on what I last filled the pens with. 😊

[ac12]

Rubber gloves, tray to do your inking on, ink vial holder, ...

 

ps by rubber gloves, I mean something similar to the examination gloves sold at Costco. It is thin enough to give you good feeback on what you are handling, vs. the thick kitchen gloves which is practically useless for handling some pens during refill.

Edited September 12, 2017 by ac12

[dvalliere]

I use gloves when I'll be in a professional setting before my hands are sure to be ink-free again. I also use them if I'm doing multiple pens with new inks.

[Runnin_Ute]

I have but don't normally. Painters gloves. The household gloves are to heavy and cumbersome.

[DaveBj]

As I don't like to be stained at all, I use nitrile gloves for many things in the house. They are one-use gloves but as refilling or cleaning a pen is not as demanding on the material or hygiene I use them several times to save that little money.

"Kleinvieh macht auch Mist.", as we say in German. "Even with a mall lifestock you'll get some manure."

 

Ditto, altho I don't bother if I'm only refilling one pen. And I, too, get several uses before I have to chuck them.

[amberleadavis]

I have them and only use them when I have to be in court the next day.

[Sasha Royale]

Yes, CS. I wear rubber gloves when working when I want to keep my hands clean. A box of the Nitrile gloves are not expensive, and may be used many times. For everyday filling, however, I don't need to wear them. The first act, upon uncapping a bottle of ink, is to wipe the lip of the bottle. I wipe the inside of the cap before replacing it on the ink bottle.

 

I refill cartridges by the batch. I wear gloves.

[Sasha Royale]

Nah. I have nitrile gloves, but I don't generally get too much ink on my hands anyway & what I do tends to come off within the next day or so as I wash my hair.

Very insensitive of you. Some of us no longer have that much hair.

Mrs. S.R.P.I.D. has to have her input. She says, "Bathe the dog."

Dog says, "WTH ? Wear rubber gloves."

[GardenWeasel]

LOL!

[Sailor Kenshin]

Have you ever considered using rubber gloves when filling your pens? I almost always have to go to the bathroom and work a few minutes with my trusty bar of Lava soap. I don't mind doing this, but rubber gloves would make this unnecessary. Your thoughts, please. C. S.

Sometimes I wear nitrile gloves to load ink and I don't care who knows it!

 

The times I forget are when I come down with green hands and have to prep food immediately after.

[Lloyd]

When filling pens, I don't wear gloves. When around germ-carrying, FP-illiterate, disposable pen users, I wear gloves.

[ParkerDuofold]

Hi all,

 

When I refill my pens or cartridges; I'll often kit out in this:

 

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As mom always says... better to be safe than sorry.

 

Be well and stay safe.

 

 

- Anthony

[inkstainedruth]

I've thought about it on occasion. But then I remember my experience years ago with dying my hair. I was going to a science fiction convention with my now husband, back when we first started dating, and the focus of that particular con was the Marion Zimmer Bradley Darkover novels. So my mother said, "Oh, Darkover -- you should get a red wig!" (Apparently a lot of the characters have red hair.). I said "Wigs are expensive! I'll just dye my hair...." Well, I decided I didn't want to do auburn -- I wanted to be strawberry blonde (my natural hair color is light ash brown, but I was blonde when I was a kid). So I got the lightest shade of red I could find. Did the beforehand test and there was almost no difference.... So when I did it for real, I left it on longer than it called for, just to get SOME color. And then I spent the next 45 minutes in my bathroom with the stupid plastic gloves on and couldn't DO anything because of the dye all over the gloves.

The following Monday, when I went back to work, people thought I had bleached it.... And because it was a permanent hair dye, and because my hair grows very slowly, it took a couple of years to completely grow out (it was really weird after about a year and a half, because I had these demarcation lines of dyed vs. undyed that were about 3-4" down from my center part...).

So, no, I figure I've still got half a container of Ink Nix, and the rest will come out when I wash my hair next. And if I ever decide to dye my hair again I'll go to a salon and just pay the exorbitant salon rates, and can sit reading while the dye is on.... The temporary ones are harder to find anymore, except for the ones that are mostly supposed to match your natural color but cover the grey -- and at the moment, because of the ash tones of my hair the grey sort of just blends in... ; plus I got the "go grey late" genes from my dad (as opposed to my brother, who got the "start going grey at 21" genes from my mom).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[lapis]

These inks are made for stainin'
And that's just what they'll do
One of these days these inks are gonna stain all over you…

 

♫ ♬

[Ron Z]

Nope. People wonder what's going on if my hands are clean.

[AmandaW]

These inks are made for stainin'

And that's just what they'll do

One of these days these inks are gonna stain all over you…

 

♫ ♬

 

Thankyou! Perusing FPN with my early morning coffee. Life's not so bad when one can start the day laughing.

[Arkanabar]

I've thought about it several times. But most of the ink I use washes away easily enough. Besides, I am allergic to latex.

This is why we have vinyl and nitrile gloves.

[HalloweenHJB]

Latex gloves. Perfection. It has made my pen filling so much more delightful.