Welding Tips and Tricks

Could anyone and everyone please answer these few questions. I really need your help.

1. What type of welding glove do you use?
2. Do you use this glove exclusively?
3. If yes why? If no why are you a multi-brand user?



Please rank the following on a scale of 1-10 (1 being the lowest, 10 being the highest)

1. How important is dexterity?
2. How important is price?
3. How important is protection?
4. How important is overall glove quality?
5. How important is comfort?
6. How important is durability?
7. How important is innovation in a welding glove?

Hey,

Please introduce yourself . I dont think youll get too many responses if you seem to be a commercial seller "scoping " for info. Please reply or I will delete post.

Mick

Great advice!
Hello All. My name is Michael Rowland and I am an academic advisor and graduate student @ the University of Cincinnati. I am working on my capstone project that revolves around welding gloves. I am just attempting to get some general information about how welders view different types of gloves.
If you could give me any assistance that would be very helpful.
THANKS!

Hey,

Thats great. We get some "spammers" trying it on from time to time. I will clone your topic into the general shop talk area as well.

I am a welder from Australia , I do Mig and Flux core, with tig for repairs.

We use "no name " heavy orange ones for mig and f/c. The main points are pliability of the glove from new , and that the liner must be integral in the glove. Some really cheap ones ive used have a loose liner that sticks to your hand when you sweat and pulls inside out. grrrr.

Another useful point is when you can buy "lefties" or "righties", that is a single glove because you always wear one out faster than the other.

For tig i use an Elliot long cuff doe skin (or similar) I like the long cuff because my overalls (coveralls) tuck into them and avoid exposing my wrists to burns.

Hope this is usefull. Ps i dont pay, work does, however, price isnt as important as a product that does what i need it to do.

Mick

All of my welding gloves come from here. http://www.princessauto.com/pal/en/
They always have a sale, so I have lots of different gloves.

Welcome to the forum Michael.

Hello All,
Thank you for the replies and PLEASE keep them coming.

Great information Mick. You have been most helpful.

Hi, Mike! I've been thinking a lot about gloves lately.

rowlanma wrote: 1. What type of welding glove do you use?
2. Do you use this glove exclusively?
3. If yes why? If no why are you a multi-brand user?

Please rank the following on a scale of 1-10 (1 being the lowest, 10 being the highest)

1. How important is dexterity?
2. How important is price?
3. How important is protection?
4. How important is overall glove quality?
5. How important is comfort?
6. How important is durability?
7. How important is innovation in a welding glove?

1. I use lots of different gloves.
2. No, I don't use any brand of gloves at work exclusively.
3. I use multiple brands because that's what work has for me. If I had my own shop, I would probably shop a few different brands to see which ones I like best, then use that brand exclusively.

1. 10 for TIG gloves, 6-ish for MIG/stick gloves.
2. 4 for TIG gloves, 8 for Mig/stick gloves (I'd pay the money for an amazing pair of TIG gloves. especially if I needed something exceptional for the work I was doing based on cleanliness and picky-ness of the material. MIG/stick gloves are pretty much made to die in my opinion.)
3. 9
4. 10 (see #2)
5. 10 (comfort=higher productivity and enjoyment of the work.)
6. 8
7. 9? (never thought of it like that. I don't want a pair of gloves that's got an lcd screen, but R&D goes a long way. I imagine there are different animals that make better leather for different welding applications, this would be interesting to research and explain to customers.)