Anyone wear gloves to handle vacuum tubes?

@hilde45 

Do you remove teeth first or leave them in your mouth? 

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. 

No.

Used to. Not so much any more. The reason it was recommended years ago was a myth.

As for the oils on your fingers, the oil won't in soak, penetrate, through the glass envelope of the tube, therein the myth, But it will smear the fragile labeling, printing on old vacuum tubes. Especially those made in the 1950s and 1960s.

When handling old tubes I am very careful to not touch the printing on the tubes with my fingers. Even wearing gloves. Any accidental wiping on the fragile printing can destroy the printing. YMMV.

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