Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Left hand welding gloves

My day job is making fine art, particularly fabricated, welded sculpture. I use TIG for fine work, but mainly use MIG for the structural and general welding. At the higher settings on the MIG machine it generates a lot of heat when welding. I found that I generally wear-out my left glove faster than the right glove. Apparently this is pretty common - maybe most welders are right handed and they hold the torch in that hand, and guide the weld with the left hand. So the left glove gets hotter and catches more spatter than the right glove.

So I went to my friendly welding supply store and found that you can buy just left hand welding gloves if you want. But get this, they only sell them in pairs! Go figure that one!

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