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Which gloves for battery use?

  • 16-01-2015 10:32pm
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    cj maxx
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    Hi , need to top up a battery with water , does any one know which kind of gloves offer protection aginst sulphuric acid.
    Read about it on some battery website but cant find it again and google throws up too much


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  • #2
    Tokyo
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    Nitrile gloves if I'm not mistaken - the purple ones you see used in lab work. Though unless you plan on dousing yourself with the stuff, as long as you're careful, most gloves would do the job just fine I reckon...


  • #3
    greysides
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    You can also get nitrile gloves for milking. Good gloves actually, tougher than latex.

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  • #4
    cj maxx
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    greysides wrote: »
    You can also get nitrile gloves for milking. Good gloves actually, tougher than latex.

    Are they labled as mitrile? Or how do you tell


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    Zoo4m8
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    cjmc wrote: »
    Hi , need to top up a battery with water , does any one know which kind of gloves offer protection aginst sulphuric acid.
    Read about it on some battery website but cant find it again and google throws up too much

    You're topping up with water..you don't need gloves..


  • #6
    Tokyo
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    Zoo4m8 wrote: »
    You're topping up with water..you don't need gloves..

    That's what I thought too... would just be distilled water,
    no?


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  • #7
    greysides
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    cjmc wrote: »
    Are they labled as mitrile? Or how do you tell


    They most likely will be labelled.


    I presume the concern is over the acid 'spitting' back. The adage from the chemistry lab was 'Always Add Acid'.

    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



  • #8
    GY A1
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    Goggles would be good in case any splash


  • #9
    cj maxx
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    mike_ie wrote: »
    That's what I thought too... would just be distilled water,
    no?

    So did i but any site ive visited say to protect well , and i lnow from previous jobs water and sulphuric acid can react and spit / bubble
    Plus i'm a clart :/


  • #10
    Tokyo
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    Not knocking your choice to wear gloves at all - seems like a cheap line of defence to me. Though to be honest, I'd chuck on a pair of goggles before I'd put on gloves - the eyes are far more at risk, and any accidents I've ever seen caused by battery acid was because it splashed up into their eyes....


  • #11
    cj maxx
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    mike_ie wrote: »
    Not knocking your choice to wear gloves at all - seems like a cheap line of defence to me. Though to be honest, I'd chuck on a pair of goggles before I'd put on gloves - the eyes are far more at risk, and any accidents I've ever seen caused by battery acid was because it splashed up into their eyes....

    Oh googles are a defo


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