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

If the tubes are hot and there is not time to wait for them to cool sufficiently for safe handling, by all means wear gloves.  

I’m pretty sure that back in the heyday of tubes, the 50s and 60s, no one wore gloves to handle them. Glove wearing may just be more audio tweakery.

If you have expensive NOS or OS tubes you might want to wear gloves to help prevent body oils from removing the sometimes delicate silk screen tube markings.  Nothing to do with decreased performance or longevity, but merely cosmetic