[StarQuest]

The first 3 years in repair I didn't use gloves or safti glasses and never had any problems. I truthfully thought it was no big issue.

It wasn't until I experienced my first blow out failure going into my 4th year (using a high acid based resin) that I decided to start wearing safti glasses. At the time, I didn't even carry a eye wash kit and was lucky to be working at a dealership where they had one. (FOR YOUR SAFETY, PLEASE ALWAYS HAVE A EYE WASH KIT AVAILABLE) If you ever had resin blow into your face and eyes I'm sure you would agree.

As far as using gloves went.... I continued to work without them after this incident happened. Well, that was my next biggist mistake because after only two weeks of getting resin into my eyes and face, I started having reactions to resins through any skin contact. So, I then went to using Nitrile gloves and thought that would fix things. Unfortunately, that didn't help and things only got worse. With all the open bleeding cracks on my hands I then developed a chemical reaction to the nitrile rubber chemicals seeping into my body. Same with latex gloves.

The only thing that works for me today is vinyl examination gloves. Been using these for years now with no problems. Believe it or not they are also half the cost of nitrile. I normally will change them every 2-3 repairs on a fleet accounts because they will break down. You can buy them from a local Pharmacy or online. They also just introduced elastic fitting ones, which I haven't tried so far.

I would highly suggest to everybody, don't wait for the same problems I've experienced to happen to you.....you can prevent that from occuring. Start using protective gloves and wearing safti glasses.



Starburst, just send me a PM with phone# or email if your interested on how I solved this. Might save you some doctor bills where I spent plenty on figuring this out.