Anyone wear gloves to handle vacuum tubes?

Some folks have more grease than others.

Excess grease was gold back when film photography was alive and well. Got a scratch on a prized negative? Just swipe a finger across your nose, and rub that nose grease into the scratch. Grease fills the void perfectly, and closely matches the refractive index of acetate - hence the white scratch lines disappear from your enlargement prints, like magic :) Of course if the scratch went through the emulsion side (showing as black lines in enlargements) you’re still screwed. 

Nitrile gloves should be good for handling tubes. Nice grip. But I am totally against use of cotton gloves!

Just a tip:

Don't use pliers...

Just a tip:

Don't use pliers...

Right--because vice-grips will work much better.

Handling anything with fingers always adds oil artifacts; why would you want oil on tubes, light bulbs, etc. Oil attracts dust......I no longer use tube gear, but when I did, I used latex medical gloves....I still use these gloves when I open gear to do my mods.

I was at SWAF And was in  the ARC room. I noticed those guys weren’t using gloves and ask one of them about it. He said it was unnecessary and I would say those guys are experts