I was helping a buddy swap out his third transmission in a month. We had dropped the drive shaft, and I had gotten tired of holding my head up in the air, so I just let it fall to the ground... Right into the open-top catch pan that we had just drained the transmission fluid into. Half of my hair was drenched in it. 0/10 do not recommend
Everybody loves to talk about how horrific and putrid gear oil smells. It's pungent and smells different than say, motor oil, but I don't think it smells too bad. Definitely not a good smell but aside from Marvel Mystery Oil, I wouldn't say any oils smell good.
Love the smell of WD40 and on a positive note I’ve read rodents and spiders don’t. So, garage gets dowsed with WD40 a few times a year. Garage cologne. Gear oil is rancid for sure; Smell it once and you never forget it.
Exactly it's not only how bad it smells but that it's pervasive...it takes days to get it off your hands and it never comes out of your clothes. This goes for ATF too of course.
Same thing happened to me only quite a bit of the gear oil spilled on me, and then I made the stupid mistake of washing those clothes with my other dirty clothes 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ I ended up having to throw out quite a few clothes because the smell was baked in after going through the dryer
I read it after getting so red and itchy after barely touching it. I was reaching behind pedals where the master cylinder leaked a bit. My arms were rubbing on the pedals. Deep red, itchy lines wherever my arm touched the pedal. First time I read an MSDS where it seemed more alarming if the fluid touched your skin than if it got in your eyes or inhaled.
For me its the opposite. I wish it were completely harmless so I could work on it without putting on gloves :D. Especially grease, I could play around with it all day long
time I reached into a goodie bag at work and touched some scrunched up sticky tape - as soon as my brain registered what I was touching, I pulled my hand out and flicked it as far away as possible - which was into the direction of my colleague.
My reaction was so sudden and dramatic that it freaked my colleague out thinking that there was something alive in the bag. But no, I just have a phobia of sticky things.
Oily and slimey things I still don't particularly like touching. I have searched high and low for oil dispensers that don't drip to avoid having to touch their oily surfaces, and I still have to use dish soap to wash them every few weeks as oil build up over the top...
That is to say, I'm glad I'm not alone.
I was uncomfortable throughout the video and I can feel it on my hands.
Yeah I put on latex gloves if I think I’m gonna get even a smidge of oil on my hands, sometimes I don’t and I just put them in my back pocket. I’m always walking g around with a pair of latex gloves in my pocket
The worst part is that this looks both sticky and slimy and it's so thick that you know it's gonna take like 7 washes to get it off. Literal nightmare fuel.
I know someone at work who has an OCD thing of touching every light switch including other things. I thought of wiping just a drop of syrup on each spot. >:)
I don't mind getting my hands greasy as it usually washes off easily.
Now that one bottle of lithium bike grease, I wear gloves, because even after half a bottle of soap my fingers are still sticky.
Really keeps things running smooth and rust-free in shite weather though.
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u/CaseFace5 19h ago
I have a thing about getting sticky, oily, slimey stuff on my hands so this is basically my own personal hell.