Anyone wear gloves to handle vacuum tubes?


I wear cloth gloves to change or to test tubes. Does anyone else do this? I see lots of bare fingers handling tubes on ebay. If I ever do touch them with bare skin, I am very quick to wipe with dry cloth after. Just wondering what the rest of the world does. Thanks

billpete

Showing 3 responses by immatthewj

I never ever used to, and I kind of wondered whether I should, and then I read a blurbs by tube dealers that said it wasn't required so I felt vindicated . . . but then I bought a preamp from Cary and it came with a single glove that they recommended for handling tubes so I started to wonder again . . . but the glove is way too small so now I just keep some "lens wipes" that I use for cleaning my glasses and after I've finished handling the tubes if I think about it I wipe them down.

Just a tip:

Don't use pliers...

Right--because vice-grips will work much better.

I was at SWAF And was in  the ARC room. I noticed those guys weren’t using gloves and ask one of them about it. He said it was unnecessary and I would say those guys are experts

+1, @limomangus , I think that's a safe bet.