Performance Tech Mechanic Gloves - XL

Video Transcript for Review of Performance Tool Tools - Mechanic Gloves - PT98FR

Ellen: Hey, everybody. I'm Ellen here at etrailer.com and we're taking a quick look at the Performance Tools mechanic gloves. Now, these are available in three different sizes. We've got medium, large, and extra large. So depending on your hand size, you'll want to pick the one that fits best.It's always good to have an extra pair of gloves around, whether you're doing anything in the garden, at the shop, working on your RV or anything else. Maybe it's just cold outside, you don't want to get frostbit.

Whatever the case might be.So I'm going to take a look at these gloves and show you the difference between them to make sure that these are the right fit for you. Now, I have kind of not tiny hands, but small hands. I'm a lady. So I would be picking the medium size. They're still a little bit big for me, but I think between the medium, the large, and the extra large, they should be good for a lot of folks out there, mostly men or people who have bigger hands.

So let's take a closer look.Now, for reference, my hand, if we go from my middle finger to about my wrist is about seven inches long, and then my palm is about three and a half inches. So again, just to give you a frame of reference for that length, since we're going to be looking at my hands in particular, that's how big my hands are. So not huge, but not the daintiest either.So with the medium, getting my hands in here, they fit pretty nicely in the palm. The thing that I always have a problem with is just the pinky. There's always excess there, which these are no exception.

That's just kind of the way my hands are.I think these are nice, especially, again, if you're going to be using these in any kind of cold weather. They are fairly thick, so I think they did pretty good there. As far as the dexterity, they're not going to be great. I mean, they are thicker gloves. They're almost a suede-like material from the feel of them.

So can you do brain surgery in these No. But can you change out a tire Definitely. Can you tighten stuff down Absolutely. Clean out bearings or anything like that I wouldn't see why not. So I think that they're going to work for a lot of different applications.I'll try on the other ones, just to kind of give you an idea of the difference in size. So again, here they are on my hands. These are the mediums. The fingers are a little bit long for me, but the palm feels pretty good.Now, if we go to the large, these also fit fairly nicely just in the hand, but now the fingers are starting to get quite a bit bigger. So I've got almost a finger width's space in between the end of my fingers and the ends of the glove.Then if we go to the extra large, which is just going to be comically big on me. Yeah, now we've got a lot of looseness. It's very loose in my palm. And I've got quite a bit of space in between those fingers, almost two finger widths. So if you have quite a bit bigger hands than me, which you probably do, these are going to work out pretty well.I do like the feel of these. They're again pretty thick. They're pretty comparable to any other kind of mechanic's gloves that I've seen. There are a couple of little holes on the sides to give a little bit of breathing or a little breathability to the gloves. And I like that. Nobody likes having sweaty hands inside their gloves. So that makes it nice. I know some folks like to double up, maybe having a nitro glove or a latex glove underneath the mechanic's glove. So if you're really working with some nasty solvents, that can give you a double layer. So having a little bit of breathability within there would help keep the sweatiness down a little bit.That's pretty much it for our quick look at the Performance Tool tech mechanic gloves. I hope that this has been helpful in deciding if these are the right ones for you and which size is best for you. I know that I can't show you everybody's hands, but just to give you a reference with mine. So again, I hope that this has been helpful. We do have a lot of other tools and accessories here at etrailer.com and it's always our goal to get you the best information so you can pick the right part the first time. Thanks for watching.