Mechanix Gloves for Welding??

Dont do it Dan.
The splatter burned a whole in mine.

 

Mechanixs gloves are usually made of cordura nylon, they will start to melt at about 250*F not good for welding.

 

Try some lightweight deerskin TIG welding gloves. They're less than 1/2 the cost of Mechanix Wear per pair (I think my Revco Black Stallions were about $7 or $13 at my local Airgas) and they're thin enough to grab most small items. I usually don't do heavy MIG or stick welding with mine, but I use them all the time for plasma cutting and light welding.

I'm still addicted to Mechanix Wear gloves for fabricating and general wrenching, though. I probably go through about 5-6 pairs a year.

 

Or do like me, you know those cheap leather gloves you can get at lowes? Yeh lets just say they can catch on fire and you won't know it. Imagine stoping welding and your autodarkening mask won't undarken and you can't figure it out till you see your left hand is on fire... again.

 

Dan- Mechanics gloves have a leather palm and fingers. I use them to pick up brake rotors, exhaust, etc from the racetrack with no problems. I wear them while using the mig welder as well.

 

I use the plain-old un-lined top grain leather calfskin gloves that most ranchers and farmers use around this area. I think they're called drivers gloves - a little cheaper than deerskin or pigskin and they last a long time. I stopped using the typical welders gloves years ago - hard to grab and hold stuff as you mentioned. The "double palm" gloves are good also. Try em - you'll never go back. I'd stay away from the nylon-type mechanics gloves, can't handle the heat!

 

I still use welders gloves, handle parts with pliers, guess I just don't know any better.

 

I bring mine home from work when I need to hold something that I can get a feel for. These gloves work great and you do still have feeling thru them.

 

Also, melting nylon is not good on the skin. Too hard to get off.

tommy b

 

Nope don't have and don't remember ever having any. I'd come closer to welding with just my boots and welding gloves on. R)

 

Ditto. Take a crappy pair of swap meet pliers and leave them where you can get to them easily. Nothing like being sure that you're not gonna be a burn victim.

 

Don't try Asic running shoes either.

 

Kinda going the other way here (although I'm all about coming out cheap for ANYTHING!!!).

A guy I know is in welding classes at the local Technical school. He has a VERY nice pair of Miller welding gloves. Blue with gray trim. They come about 1/2 way up to your elbow - just like most other welding gloves. The difference in these is that they are very "fitted". They come in sizes, rather than 'one size fits all' like most welding gloves. They don't have all the extra material at the corners of the fingertips like most others. These are nice and rounded so you have good dexterity. (Granted, you're not going to thread a needle with them...)

Again - I'm a cheepskate, so I probably wouldn't pony up the $$ for them, but they are by far the nicest ones I've ever used.

[I use the ones like Boyink mentioned...]

 

Here is what I use at work:

http://www.labsafety.com/search/def...e&N=539+4294946595&Ntk=LSSSearch&dept_id=6426

If I am working around steam lines/regulators, I will put these on first and a pair of heavy leather welding gloves over them.

The Kevlar gloves work great for incidental handling of hot parts. I have a semi-worn out pair at home for welding and working around a hot engine.

 

I was wearing mecanic gloves when I first welded. It took about 5 minutes before I went and found leather gloves... I think I still have a few black marks on my fingers. On closer inspection of the gloves, There were about 10 holes and about 20 that *almost* made it through.