Disposable Gloves?

I'm just curious, but why do I never see anyone (outside of a clean room) use gloves when handling computer parts? Most people, including myself, use out bare hands when touching these components, but wouldn't it be better to use gloves since it would prevent oils and other substances on our hands from petting on the components? I mean, I can't think of any reason why we wouldn't use disposable gloves, unless they easily obtain static charges or something.

 

Because the chance of anything going wrong is increadibly slim.

Manufacturers also use gloves to prevent finger prints and other marks on their products since it's always nice to have a perfectly clean computer out of the box. When you assemble a computer yourself it's not really much of a concern since you'll be touching it daily anyway.

 

Didn't think of that >.>. Thanks lol.

 

We used disposable cotton gloves, back when I was building high end towers and notebooks for a company.

For myself? Nah.

 

when I was trying to get into the wafer industry we used gloves (among the other clothing and hairnets) to make sure the wafers had no defects before being processed. We didn't even touch them, but had suction wands to move them. I suppose a finger print smudge could mess things up down the road. I think most the clothing like gloves were to keep skin flakes from contaminating the room. Wasn't as quite as extreme as those colored bunny suit mascots Intel used for a while with full face hoods.

They also had rules like no perfumes or scented lotions etc. in the clean rooms. The floors had negative air pressure that sucked it in, while the roofs were positive so there was a constant stream of downward air. You were also to move as slowly as possible.

I was working for Wacker in Portland Oregon. 2 weeks into a 4 week training program they laid everyone off cause the economy took a dive. I think this was 1995 or 96. I had my clean room cert but everyone was struggling then so no places were hiring.

Don't know if things have changed (probably worse now), but I would have liked that job. I think they had 12 hour shifts or something so you worked long hours, but when you were off you had a lot of free time. They also taught college courses right on the company campus.

I heard that in Germany they would sell you beer in their fab cafeteria

I know there are different class clean rooms. Some are more strict than others.


I don't even wear a wrist strap when working at home to ground myself and have never had a problem in 20 years. So for basic work I'd say gloves are a bit extreme.

 

Only time I used gloves is when I was adding a screen protector to my laptop to prevent fingerprints and smudges.