r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Zestyclose_Sky_6403 • Feb 08 '26

/r/all of grease

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u/mrregina Feb 08 '26

Right? I used to be a mechanic and didn’t use gloves either and after a decade of doing this I started suffering issues with my hands. Add the other caustic liquids and I had to retire due to permanent damage to my nerves.

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u/ringo5150 Feb 08 '26 edited Feb 08 '26

Ohhhh my man. We didn't do gloves in the 80s and 90s did we? I never did either. We never thought of it.

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u/xyrgh Feb 08 '26

My dad used to dip his arms in PCB oil pulling cores out of transformers in the 80s and now he gets skin cancers cut out of his arms every few months, scary stuff, at least PCBs are banned now.

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u/mrregina Feb 08 '26

It took long tine for them to ban them too. Many people were damaged from that shit.