I have never been the type
for obsessive handwashing as a precaution against typical germs. I figure the germ that has my name on it will show up some other way.
On the other hand, I deal with chemicals every day. Some of them are fairly harmless but some of them are really miserable.
Synthetic coolants are coolants and cutting fluids designed to mix with clean water to provide lubrication and temperature reduction of cutting tools in machines, some people also use oils- certain types of oils contain chlorinated paraffin to prevent the “Welding” effect of hot metal back onto the freshly cut surface of the material and that chlorinated paraffin is some ugly stuff.
So after a day of working inside a machine you get dirty, and wet. And your hands are soaked in whatever coolant or other fluids the machine contains. Sometimes you can wear rubber gloves but not often.
And now you have to pee.
You’d better damned well get your hands clean before you grab Mr Happy because if you don’t he won’t be so happy anymore.
Many’s the time I’ve spent dancing because I had to go and the water in the sink was ice cold, but I knew I had to get the crap off my hands or I would be sorry.
One of my customers just learned this lesson. Poor bugger. He’s got some kind of a rash now on his nether regions, and it is persistent, and it causes him not a little discomfort. He won’t do THAT again.
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ouch!!!
I’m reminded of some guys I worked with eating the hot peppers and heading off to get rid of some beer. What weren’t they thinking?
Could you carry a small potholder in your pocket to use at these times?
I always said you could tell the guys who worked in motorpools and warehouses – they were the ones who washed their hands BEFORE they took a leak.
Chlorinated Paraffin for tooling.
K-Y gel, for The Tool.
Isn’t there some published engineering spec or such on this?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Yep. Clean hands on mr. happy is a good rule.
When I was fixing airplanes in Herr Clinton’s Luftwaffe I used to get some odd looks for washing my hands before I opened my fly.
Yeah.
John Kerry is contemptible from almost every angle, but even I have to admit that there are a few idiots in uniform.
As Herr Pickering, my dad’s German colleague said
: ” I know vhere my Tick hez bean. I do NOT know vhere my hendz hez bean.”
Indeed! Or where the things my hands have touched have been.
I’ve worked in industry all my life, and yes I’ve made THAT mistake once and once only.. :)
About the worst I ever did was taking a leak after changing a printer ribbon (the old fashioned, 15 inch wide ones on a mainframe printer). I don’t know how hard you have to scrub to get that ink off, but it required more abrasion that I was willing to apply.
Hey, I was a computer science major and worked in the computer center in the early 1980’s (when females were a rarity in the field). It’s not like anyone ELSE was gonna see it anyway.
I learned that from the senior chemists when I was a lab tech many years ago; “wash your hands before you pee”.
Russ