Tearing Up Your Hands When Detailing?

All I have to do is think about working on my car and my hands or arms bleed. Me and grease and dirt have the same affliction, all I have to do is come within 3 feet of the stuff and somehow it jumps the gap and it is on me or my clothing.

Dean. :lol2:
 
I don't get cut up when detailing but doing mechanical stuff on my car is another story! I'm guaranteed to have cut knuckles every time!
 
I always had issues when detailing engine bays trying to get into tight areas. After I started wearing the nitrile gloves it has helped.
 
The irony of this post. Got myself good this past week cleaning one, damn hose clamp got me so bad I had to go to the hospital due a small vein I cut. Damn thing got me right through the sheep skin mitt. Now I have to wash it all over again to wash the blood and dried soap off. I think I'll have a professional wash it for me for a while. :D
 
Dispatch -

Perhaps you are too "full contact" on everything you are working on and need to be a little more careful.. How about looking around for a few seconds at the area you are going to be working on and assessing anything that looks dangerous and working safely around it..

If you know Bikes have a lot of Ty-Wraps on them and of course, the people who installed them did it badly and left that really sharp end on the wrap, get some little Excelite GA54 cutters that have flat angled cutter blades that will cut a Ty-Wrap perfectly flat when tightened and leave no sharp edges.. I cut those things off all the time wherever I see them on any Ty-Wrap, so the next person wont get nailed.. My pair is small for use in Electronics, and the plastic handles are a light green color.
http://www.amazon.com/Xcelite®-Diag...d=1415492758&sr=8-14&keywords=xcelite+cutters

Im not referring to those lame cutter things that look like little pistols that pull the Ty-Wrap tight and somehow break it off..

Having worked with huge cables above and underground and all the De-Marcs they end up in, above ceiling, raised floors, etc., you see zillions of Ty-Wraps and it has always defied logic how people can install them badly and leave that nasty little sharp point of plastic that will seriously cut through anything that rubs across it .. It is definitely a serious accident waiting to happen...

Just have to be really observant and try to put your hands in those tight places easy and not rush stuff..

I also use black nitrile gloves, and if they are not really thick and tight, you can get a pretty good "feel" for things and this may help to a point..

I personally use Neosporin in the tube for overnight with a bandaid for cuts if I ever get any and it seems to help healing faster and takes away the pain...

Good luck !
Dan F
 
Ive been cut around license plates a couple a times but I am very careful since. Tight wheel wells also seem to get me sometimes.

My new Dr asked me to put my hands out (they look for tremer that way)and she was little shocked to see how beaten up my hands are .

She said "now those are some working hands!What do you do for a living ?!"
 
Dispatch said:
The irony of this post. Got myself good this past week cleaning one, damn hose clamp got me so bad I had to go to the hospital due a small vein I cut. Damn thing got me right through the sheep skin mitt. Now I have to wash it all over again to wash the blood and dried soap off. I think I'll have a professional wash it for me for a while. :D
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Dang ...........Hope it heals soon! I know it hard to work with even small deep cuts.
 
Stokdgs said:
Dispatch -

Perhaps you are too "full contact" on everything you are working on and need to be a little more careful.. How about looking around for a few seconds at the area you are going to be working on and assessing anything that looks dangerous and working safely around it..

If you know Bikes have a lot of Ty-Wraps on them and of course, the people who installed them did it badly and left that really sharp end on the wrap, get some little Excelite GA54 cutters that have flat angled cutter blades that will cut a Ty-Wrap perfectly flat when tightened and leave no sharp edges.. I cut those things off all the time wherever I see them on any Ty-Wrap, so the next person wont get nailed.. My pair is small for use in Electronics, and the plastic handles are a light green color.
Xcelite® Diagonal End Cutter Pliers - 4" angled fc pliers - Side Cutting Pliers - Amazon.com

Im not referring to those lame cutter things that look like little pistols that pull the Ty-Wrap tight and somehow break it off..

Having worked with huge cables above and underground and all the De-Marcs they end up in, above ceiling, raised floors, etc., you see zillions of Ty-Wraps and it has always defied logic how people can install them badly and leave that nasty little sharp point of plastic that will seriously cut through anything that rubs across it .. It is definitely a serious accident waiting to happen...

Just have to be really observant and try to put your hands in those tight places easy and not rush stuff..

I also use black nitrile gloves, and if they are not really thick and tight, you can get a pretty good "feel" for things and this may help to a point..

I personally use Neosporin in the tube for overnight with a bandaid for cuts if I ever get any and it seems to help healing faster and takes away the pain...

Good luck !
Dan F
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I do take my time but no matter how careful you are it still is going to happen in normal motion.
It wasn't that bad had it not hit that specific spot on my hand and thus was a gusher which panicked my family, that and I take blood thinners.
It was a mere 4 stitches.
No biggie. :bigups
 
Ya know those cracks you get around your fingers and thumbs that split open? My neighbor who is a handyman says vitamin E on at night and then wear gloves to bed heals them.

That doesnt appeal to me though.Does anyone have any other things that help heal the cracks?

Winter is coming and thats when I get them.
 
ca.detailchick said:
Ya know those cracks you get around your fingers and thumbs that split open? My neighbor who is a handyman says vitamin E on at night and then wear gloves to bed heals them.

That doesnt appeal to me though.Does anyone have any other things that help heal the cracks?

Winter is coming and thats when I get them.
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The best thing is probably just ensuring proper skin care and getting appropriate nutrients and vitamins. My hands rarely crack open but chapped lips and such are pretty common for me so I just force myself to use chapstick and the like.

As for me, gloves are on in almost all cases although I usually don't cut myself. Now for some reason while I'm working nights like now and on my days off I seem to drop everything, and we all know dropping something at 3 in the morning somehow sounds inexplicably louder than during the day.
 
ca.detailchick said:
Ya know those cracks you get around your fingers and thumbs that split open? My neighbor who is a handyman says vitamin E on at night and then wear gloves to bed heals them.

That doesnt appeal to me though.Does anyone have any other things that help heal the cracks?

Winter is coming and thats when I get them.
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If you are seriously interested in healing the cracked, rough, dry skin around your hands and feet without wanting the oily feeling.

Then try Eucerin Intensive Repair!!!

This lotion heals skin faster then any others I have tried hands down.

It's a little pricey compared to other lotions but it is worth every penny.

Living out here in the High Desert, we learned long ago what works and what doesn't.
 
ca.detailchick said:
Ya know those cracks you get around your fingers and thumbs that split open? My neighbor who is a handyman says vitamin E on at night and then wear gloves to bed heals them.

That doesnt appeal to me though.Does anyone have any other things that help heal the cracks?

Winter is coming and thats when I get them.
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Sorry to say this...

I'm a skin guru, I ran three cycles of accutane when I was younger. The result was great in the fact that I now have very clear skin an almost no maintenance. The bad, I have paper thin skin (One of the side effects) and am VERY prone to cuts and scars. My healing time is lengthened a lot if at all sometimes unless I use medicine.

The best things for skin cuts are Vitamin E, desitin an Neosporin as well as peroxide. Having them covered decreases heal time by alot when you sleep because, regardless if you know it or not you move. That agitation will hinder the healing process greatly. I'm a guy an I'll go to bed with stuff on all the time... bed time is your time. Who cares :cool:
 
TumbleWeed said:
If you are seriously interested in healing the cracked, rough, dry skin around your hands and feet without wanting the oily feeling.

Then try Eucerin Intensive Repair!!!

This lotion heals skin faster then any others I have tried hands down.

It's a little pricey compared to other lotions but it is worth every penny.

Living out here in the High Desert, we learned long ago what works and what doesn't.
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Thanks Tumbleweed.Havent tried that one.
 
The Driver said:
Sorry to say this...

I'm a skin guru, I ran three cycles of accutane when I was younger. The result was great in the fact that I now have very clear skin an almost no maintenance. The bad, I have paper thin skin (One of the side effects) and am VERY prone to cuts and scars. My healing time is lengthened a lot if at all sometimes unless I use medicine.

The best things for skin cuts are Vitamin E, desitin an Neosporin as well as peroxide. Having them covered decreases heal time by alot when you sleep because, regardless if you know it or not you move. That agitation will hinder the healing process greatly. I'm a guy an I'll go to bed with stuff on all the time... bed time is your time. Who cares :cool:
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Thanks Driver.I may have to try it then.
 
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