Anyone wear gloves to handle vacuum tubes?

@texasblues1959 ,

It's all right, they're baby aspirin. I'm Quite delicate...

I never used gloves, even when I removed my 3b22 rectifier tubes, which run hotter than most power tubes, and have a 6amp filament current. I sometimes leave them on 24/7 and have had no problems for over 6 years.

Yep, literally just swapped tubes in my DAC 5 minutes ago. The ones supplied with my DAC have little sticky nylon or silicone dots for grip. 

I would not used the white slippery ones that came with my TT though.  

@faustuss ,

You are correct!

I’m totally disputing this. Since the ideal material for storing acids is glass, and highly corrosive hydrofluoric acid is about the only acid that etches glass, this is pegging my Poppycock meter to the point I had to unplug it and take an aspirin. Some manufactures literally acid etched their date codes on their tubes without stressing the integrity of the glass after decades. 🤔

They also store caustic acids in polyethylene, its not the end of the world and its not 400 degrees fahrenheit plus!

I know a number of old timers who have used everything, including high power transmitter tubes that get very hot, to tungar tubes, and mercury vapor tubes, and they all handle the tubes without gloves.  Tubes are nothing like halogen or metsl halide bulbs.  These fail because their high heat carbonizes oils from skin to form a dark spot on the glass.  That spot then absorbs light instead of letting the light pass through and that spot then heats up to a much higher temperature than the surrounding glass and this creates a weak spot that fails and causes the bulb to explodes.  Also, the internal gas in these bulbs develop extreme pressure (it is not a vacuum).  Even if a tube had a dark spot on it, it doesn’t emit enough light to heat up and fail.  People write on tubes with marker pens to no ill effects.