Anti-vibration gloves; any good?

[shih tzu faced]

Extensive work today with the angle grinders left me with bad pins & needles, both hands affected but especially the left one that holds the auxiliary handle.

Had this before when using the multi tool and mentioned it on here at the time. I always wear gloves when using power tools but nothing special, today it was just those basic knitted orange & yellow ones see you see everywhere.

Anyway it’s got me thinking about these anti-vibration gel gloves you can get. Anyone tried them, are they any good, does the extra bulk put you off actually wearing them?

Seems to be quite a variation in price from Chinese cheapos on eBay up to Dewalt / Stanley sort of level (and above).

Any input appreciated, cheers

[shih tzu faced]

Thanks Drumroll, you’ve pretty much summed up my thoughts there.

Tools like grinders and multi tools, you tend to move them around quite a lot to get into different positions and made me wonder if bulky gloves would be more of a hindrance.

Vibration white finger had also been on my mind, but needed to cut a fair bit of concrete today, followed by taking out a wall of mortar ready for the-pointing and an angle grinder is just the obvious choice. Definitely overdid it today though, went through my full battery collection twice. Even factoring in angle grinders’ taste for lithium that’s a lot of batteries!

[shih tzu faced]

Thanks all, I’ll stop messing about and just get some ordered up and see how I get on.

The cycling gloves, that’s a good call actually. I’ve got some fingerless ones kicking about somewhere so will give them a try. Might be good if switching a tool on & off regularly to give better access to the switch.

[shih tzu faced]

Evoluzione and paulwirral, that settles it, going to get some and use them. Got to be better than what I did today, and has to be worth a bit of inconvenience. Thanks very much for posting, can’t put a price on experience like that.

[shih tzu faced]

Thanks for all the input in this thread, it is much appreciated.

Clearly there is long term damage that can be done from excessive exposure to power tool vibration. Sounds obvious but I bet loads of us have done the ‘just get this job finished’ without thinking of the future effects. I’m definitely going to take note and learn from my mistakes.

[shih tzu faced]

Got a pair of gloves ordered up from eBay, less than a tenner inc delivery so we’ll see what they’re like. They look similar to the ones in Wolfracesonic’s link.

It was Saturday when I overdid the angle grinding and now on Monday lunchtime still have a faint tingling in the fingertips of my left hand. Annoying thing is I could be progressing the job this afternoon (bit of spare time) but don’t want to until the gloves arrive.

Anyway will update once I’ve tested them out.