Can you get an electric shock if you wear latex gloves?

Question

Latex or the rubber gloves you do the dishes with?

Is there enough resistance in latex gloves to stop the currents and volt ranges found in a normal household?

And will there be even more resistance if you wear latex gloves with shoes with rubber soles (like converses)

Answer 1

Depends on what you are doing. Don't work it hot if you don't have to. Rubber gloves with leather over gloves offer best protection for household current. If you are messing with the main line before or after the meter I don't recommend doing so without a drop shutdown. Be safe the thicker the rubber the better. The household rubber gloves have never been rated for any voltages before so you are kind of on your own using them for protection. Be Safe!

Answer 2

Shock Proof Gloves

Answer 3

I am genuinely interested in hearing a valid, non-condescending answer to this question. Really, if Joey T actually wanted to fry himself, he would have just put on a latex medical exam glove and touched a 120V hot wire by now.



Seriously, how thick does the rubber glove have to be to be a decent insulator?

Answer 4

Your 'additional information' is BS. You ARE planing to do something STUPID. NO ONE asks this type of question for the reason you state. If your additional details were correct, you would have already found out it won't work.

Answer 5

Don`t do it.Whatever you are going to attempt.