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You know the sort, come in a box of 100, usually blue or black. I was in B&Q earlier and they were £17!
I used to buy them for about a fiver! What's going on, can't still be 'unprecedented times' surely? Even I'm not using that excuse anymore.
Where's the best place to get them from now
eBay.
As above
Your local motor factors will have them. The price often depends how well known you are/what you wear when you go in.
Raw material cost for elastomers has risen at an astonishing rate.
Having said that a quick look on Amazon suggests you only need to paying £7 - £8 for a box... (still a big jump in percentage terms).
Your local motor factors will have them. The price often depends how well known you are/what you wear when you go in.
Unusual business model... do you mean they just appreciate a well turned-out customer, suit and tie, polished oxford brogues, or just that they like a good laugh so suit of armour, clown, gorilla etc...
Not sure, but ive always got cheaper prices at a nearby Motor Factor type place, maybe its the ageing Transit I have.
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Normal for anywhere that serves a trade IME.
Go into a motor factors wearing grubby overalls & pay significantly less than some guy in an expensive suit.
An old boss paid double for paint in jewson what the guy actually doing the painting paid when he went in for another tin.
Wurth black or orange, the blue ones are food grade and don't like contact with oils and greases.
Unusual business model… do you mean they just appreciate a well turned-out customer, suit and tie, polished oxford brogues, or just that they like a good laugh so suit of armour, clown, gorilla etc…
"Is this a one off purchaser or at best a home mechanic who's going to buy a set of brake disks every 5 years, or is it someone who will buy a clutch kit every day which I can sell him at full price as it's passed onto the customer and they'll come here to buy it because we sell them the non-reimbursable consumables cheaply".
I get a rubbish rate a Jewsons compared to our chippie.
blue ones are food grade
Strange, the ones I picked up in Wickes last week are blue. For food? in Wickes? hmm
Strange, the ones I picked up in Wickes last week are blue. For food? in Wickes? hmm
You might have slept through it, but there's been this pandemic thing that's still ravaging through a country that accounts for almost a quarter of the planets population, it's kind of made a mess of PPE supply chains.
Amazon £6-£8. Quality can vary of course.
I work in a kitchen so gloves need to be blue, as do plasters, rather than blue being 'food grade' particularly.
Currently on a Haematology ward. Also blue, with different shades indicating different sizes, so definitely not a case of blue = food.
I think it doesn't matter what you use, they'll all do the same job of keeping oil and grease off your hands.
Strange, the ones I picked up in Wickes last week are blue. For food? in Wickes? hmm
Maybe it's a brand-specific thing?
I'm 99% sure I've never seen anyone in Kwik-Fit wearing anything other than blue gloves.* The Girl's boyfriend is a mechanic Vehicle Technician, he brought home a box ordered in error (size small) and they were blue also.
(* in addition to their clothing)
Blue food grade was the description from the Wurth chap in-store.
Workshop experience is that the blue ones don't last as well in contact with oil/grease as black/orange types.
Orange is definitely the way to go if you want to channel your inner Ed Chynna.
Works PPE vending machine...... (never personally done this of course)
I never knew that I’ve been wearing food grade gloves for the last 20+ years.
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I never knew that I’ve been wearing food grade gloves for the last 20+ years.
Username and profession checks out then.
These are part of the pay & compensation package for anyone who works in a location that has them, like earplugs, right?
(Joking... motor factors will have them on the shelf for a feq quid. Dont buy them from bloody B&Q!)
I never knew that I’ve been wearing food grade gloves for the last 20+ years.
I'm happy to get a couple of hours out of a pair, 20 years is massively impressive !
We have blue and black ones, depends what stores have on the shelf. OK with most things we use, apart from Tar and Gum remover, which causes them to disintegrate. Damn stuff will destroy car headlight lenses as well, so I avoid using the stuff now.