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

I don’t use gloves but I touch the tubes once in their entire lifespan, when installing them I have no reason to I don’t much if any tube rolling so once they are in, that’s it

I think back to my first tube amp and how naive and ignorant I was.  I was afraid to touch them from the halogen era as well.  I quickly gained confidence and have never used gloves.  I still love my halogen pendant lights in the kitchen.  I have a set of 3 that I installed in my old house and when I moved, I took them with me.  I never turn them off and the OEM bulbs lasted about 13 years!  

I wear nitrile medical grade gloves, powder free, good grip and no oil from fingers.

@larryi  Then the best thing to do is occasionally use a microfibre towel to dust and/or remove detris/oils on a tube, new and used.  I'm just not into that and my custom listening room is filtered from most dust-maybe once annual cleaning.