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've always used gloves, just to be safe & no fingerprints. Its like chicken soup, it can't hurt.

Maybe one doesn't need to wear some type of glove when handling tubes, but I always do.

Thanks for all the replies. Much appreciated. The gloves that I use are ones that I have for handling coins, just plain white cloth, made for keeping fingerprints off of valuable coins. I value my tubes much as much as I do my coin collection. Many are NOS and as old as I am. I have handled them with bare skin before but if so, I wipe them with clean cotton cloth after. Maybe it's just a nutty audiophile thing to do but it's OK with me to take the extra precaution. Back in the 50's, when I was a kid and tubes were in all of our TV's and radios, we never used gloves and would have thought you were nuts if you did. OK, we're nuts. 

I just put a pair of white sweatsocks on my hands - clean, grippy and insulated from the heat.