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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: paul ette on November 29, 2014, 07:40:28 pm

Title: Black wfp hand
Post by: paul ette on November 29, 2014, 07:40:28 pm
Wtf is this about , been busy lately and looks like my hand has got the plague ;D :o ???
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Post by: paul ette on November 29, 2014, 07:42:01 pm
Black hand
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Post by: Smudger on November 29, 2014, 07:43:25 pm
That's normal - wear gloves

Darran
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Post by: paul ette on November 29, 2014, 07:47:13 pm
I know, just a right pain to get off ain't it,
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Post by: Jack Harris on November 29, 2014, 08:06:58 pm
yep lol
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Post by: PoleKing on November 29, 2014, 08:38:50 pm
Nail brush and imperial leather.
You'll be fine
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Post by: paul ette on November 29, 2014, 09:26:27 pm
Worse than oil this is,  lol
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Post by: P @ F on November 29, 2014, 09:35:08 pm
Try Palm oil  ;D

Rich
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Post by: P @ F on November 29, 2014, 09:43:17 pm
All those with dodgey hands as above , is this the SLX pole by chance ?

Rich
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Post by: Window Lickers on November 30, 2014, 09:08:02 am
Black Friday.

Careful, you might find some fat, out of work niggapotomases try to steal your telly.
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Post by: paul ette on November 30, 2014, 09:25:55 am
 ;D
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Post by: paulben on November 30, 2014, 09:34:01 am
Get to drs for anti biotics only other thing is amputation of hand
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Post by: Don Kee on November 30, 2014, 09:37:41 am
Get to drs for anti biotics only other thing is amputation of hand

+1

I had a mate who got black hands from water fed poling...he died
Title: Re: Black wfp hand
Post by: Jack Harris on November 30, 2014, 11:13:01 am
Clx , its from the bottom of the sections where the pole clamps on to the next, that material seems to be running when the pole gets wet.
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Post by: ascjim on November 30, 2014, 11:53:33 am
Disposable gloves
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Post by: Alex Gardiner on November 30, 2014, 01:31:49 pm
Black hands is a side effect as a carbon (or part carbon) pole wears. The production of this black residue can be reduced by the following steps:

1. From new keep the pole as clean as possible during use - perhaps wiping the pole hose after each use with the pole, before putting back in the van.
2. Regularly (perhaps at the end of each week) flushing the pole out using a hose pipe.
3. Every couple of months take the pole apart, clean thoroughly and allow to dry. Check and renew any worn overlap tape and base tape (essential to help prevent carbon on carbon wear). Then spray the sections, paying special attention to the overlap area, with a coat of dry-film PTFE spray.
4. When out working if the pole starts to sound gritty then immediately flush the inside of the pole thoroughly with water from the hose pipe.

These steps if carefully followed will help prevent the premature wearing of the inside of the sections which is where carbon wear will occur first.

As a general preventive for black hands I recommend using disposable Nitrile gloves. This not only helps prevent black hands, but also promotes good hygiene and skin health whilst working. I usually go through a couple of pairs a day whilst out at work.

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Post by: C o z y on November 30, 2014, 02:07:29 pm
We had blokes in the army that developed that. It's a STD and happens to people like Bateman, who is a well known mincing gay bar loiterer. Amputation is the only way to cure it, as it's in the end stage now.  :(
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Post by: Tom-01 on November 30, 2014, 02:20:56 pm
Nail brush and imperial leather.
You'll be fine

Dad..? Is this you?!
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Post by: paulben on November 30, 2014, 02:26:16 pm
2 pairs a day I go through a box a week , Whose next BEND  ::)roll
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Post by: Window Lickers on November 30, 2014, 02:45:52 pm
We had blokes in the army that developed that. It's a STD and happens to people like Bateman, who is a well known mincing gay bar loiterer. Amputation is the only way to cure it, as it's in the end stage now.  :(


There were gay boys n Cozys unit who quite often would hear him say when he was bent over a dustbin 'is that the ring on your index finger mate I can feel', the reply always came back 'No Cozy, you fat nonce, it's me wristwatch.
Title: Re: Black wfp hand
Post by: Jack Harris on November 30, 2014, 02:48:47 pm
@ Alex - my clx only started once the tape inside the pole wore away, will follow your steps and get it sorted  ;D
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Post by: C o z y on November 30, 2014, 02:56:55 pm
wrisnumptych  ??? What's that?  :D
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Post by: mufcglen on November 30, 2014, 06:23:20 pm
was just thinking this morning after my first job how black my hand was, strange thing is it seems to be really bad with this new 2 month old slx, i had a very old slx before and that wasnt half as bad as this?
Title: Re: Black wfp hand
Post by: paul ette on November 30, 2014, 07:10:32 pm
Went hospital they said it definately was black hand disease and had to be amputated, no more window cleaning for me
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Post by: C o z y on November 30, 2014, 07:42:35 pm
Told ya.  :(
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Post by: Don Kee on November 30, 2014, 07:56:00 pm
I left the house white and came back looking like an asian due to carbon poles...


Controversial eh...
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Post by: PoleKing on November 30, 2014, 08:18:55 pm
Nail brush and imperial leather.
You'll be fine

Dad..? Is this you?!

Lol. Aint i about half your age Tommy? ;D