[paul ette]

Wtf is this about , been busy lately and looks like my hand has got the plague

[paul ette]

Black hand

[Smudger]

That's normal - wear gloves

Darran

[paul ette]

I know, just a right pain to get off ain't it,

[Jack Harris]

yep lol

[PoleKing]

Nail brush and imperial leather.
You'll be fine

[paul ette]

Worse than oil this is,  lol

[P @ F]

Try Palm oil 

Rich

[P @ F]

All those with dodgey hands as above , is this the SLX pole by chance ?

Rich

[Window Lickers]

Black Friday.

Careful, you might find some fat, out of work niggapotomases try to steal your telly.

[paul ette]

 

[paulben]

Get to drs for anti biotics only other thing is amputation of hand

[Don Kee]

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

[Jack Harris]

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.

[ascjim]

Disposable gloves

[Alex Gardiner]

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.

[C o z y]

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. 

[Tom-01]

Nail brush and imperial leather.
You'll be fine

Dad..? Is this you?!

[paulben]

2 pairs a day I go through a box a week , Whose next BEND 

[Window Lickers]

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.