I wear gloves when I machine.
I play guitar. And I have a girlfriend. Both like the fact my hands aren't dried out from washing oil out of my pores.
I also like the safety afforded by them. The glove is a good warning.
And ammonia is quantity is bad for you. That is why I use Boretech Eliminator and not Extreme BMG for cleaning barrels.
Sounds like my son, he is married has a suit and tie job...but when he works on motorcycles ...he always wears latex gloves.
Me, still not so much...35 yrs as a professional machinist no gloves were available on the shop floor... so I don't wear them still Dark Heavy cutting oil irritates the skin, harsh chemicals in Hardcut cutting fluid are nauseating for 10 or 12 hrs a day, trichlorethele fumes in open 5 gallon buckets, and used by the 55 gallon drum..finally outlawed its use. White hot Zirconium fires, sometimes more than 1 a day ...some big machines pumped 110 gallons of hot cutting oil & fumes, trepanning large cores, of zirconium.
Gloves were not available as a safety option except for handling acid...then acid gloves were required. There was no hearing protection, mask, or gloves on the job...when I started...2 years later hearing protection became a thing.
Dirty, dangerous, oil, chemical fumes, fighting zirconium fires, men killed, looking for severed fingers in the chip pan...explosion proof walls installed. Everyone has made a trip to the emergency room..that blood pool on the floor is mine... these were the men who built your nuclear arsenal, refuling your necular reactors, aircraft carriers, and submarines, cluster bombs, missile cones. Our million dollar ideas were just part of the gift to humanity free to the company but very profitable for them...my greatest contribution was the fuel rod end cap invention to pull spent nuclear fuel rods from the reactor core...hundreds of millions of dollars made off that idea for the nuclear refuling business.. and a $1700 bonus for me...but I usually never got anything for inventions or ideas ..they belong to the company to sell. Alot of inventions and improvements were made by machinist, the companies patent and market them...and you get to keep your job.
Background... why I'm not concerned about latex gloves on my hands or getting dirty...there were lots of things that will get ya killed, burned, or
dismembered on a daily basis. Split skulls, severed fingers, punctured intestines, metal slivers in the eyes...and much of that was with safety equipment on, or later required.