Magic Lube Clean-up

[Yorker]

I've done my best to search the site, but unable to locate any posts about this.

Other than using wd40 spray, are there other products to clean your hands? I'd like to be able to clean them while getting the bracket back on the pool filter casing. Suggestions?
Thanks, Y

 

[jblizzle]

I wipe my hands with a rag while outside. Then just wash them in the sink with dish soap when I go in.

 

[Yorker]

Thanks Jason, I do bring paper towels, or an old rag that I'll just throw away. But I gotta say my hands still feel sticky as I'm handling the wrench. I have tried using dish soap (lots of soap), and it is no help at all. I hate to think this, cus I'm generally a fairly neat guy, but maybe I'm a piggy when doing this . I'm now thinking about pre-spraying a rag with the WD before I start the process. Now, I gotta wait 6 months to try that out ;-)))

 

[Newdude]

I have a box of latex gloves for anything thats ganna be particularly messy. (The blue Dr like ones) I use the Jacks lube but i imagine its the same. Its designed to resist water so cleaning with soapy water isnt exactly productive. Anyway i lube whatever is needed and take the gloves off for reassembly with clean hands and tools.

I found myself using them for many other thing as well like oil changes.

 

[Yorker]

I'm sure I've tried that, I know I have trouble using them, just have issues with how they feel, and affect (or is it effect my dexterity. But this too is something I'm going to try. Thanks NewD

 

[DorsalSpine]

Any time I'm cleaning something with solvents I use the disposable nitrile gloves. Grab them at the wrist and turn them inside out as you take them off. If I have some dirty paper towels I wad them up in one hand when I'm done and pull the glove off over top of them. Switch hands and do it again. That way all of it is inside two layers of gloves when it goes in the trash.

 

[Newdude]

I aboslutely HATE them. They feel aweful, my hands sweat and just hate them. But at 43 im getting more and more disgusted by having crud on my hands hours later. So i now hate the gloves less than the mess. Darned if ya do/dont i guess.

 

[OrangeAndBlue]

I wear the latex disposable gloves for those jobs.

 

[Rocket J Squirrel]

Those gloves have myriad uses. I use them when making meatloaf or meatballs, and also when working on live 120v wires around the house.

 

[Newdude]

Those gloves have myriad uses. I use them when making meatloaf or meatballs, and also when working on live 120v wires around the house.

Meatballs !!! You sir are a genious. Ive seem them used on bbq shows on tv but never would have made the real life connection. Bravo. Cleaning meatball hands sucks. And then i have to clean the sink handles cuz you know i forgot to turn them on before.

 

[Wobblerlorri]

Use a good grease-cutting dishwashing detergent, like Dawn for washing your hands. Then apply a light hand cream like Gold Bond, because Dawn dries the dickens out of your skin.

I second latex or nitrile gloves. I keep a stock of them around, because I hate my hands being dirty. You know what the absolute BEST use of them is? Cleaning hair out of the shower drain! YUCK!!

 

[JamesW]

A cleaner with d-limonene might work for you.

 

[Mikemm]

I've used baby oil and a paper towel to wipe my hands. That gets most of it off, then wash with soap and water. If you work on your car and get grease on your hands, baby oil works for that too. I used baby oil to remove residual magic lube on the filter top and bottom where it contacts the o-ring, then washed with dish soap as I read somewhere you don't want to use petroleum products on the o-ring.