Any glove from miller, or black stallion should work for you, I used mig gloves for tig when I first got started there thicker which helps with the heat and more resistant to abrasions.

 

You should not be using the same gloves you handle oily metal with and tig welding with the same gloves.

I have like 3 or 4 pair of gloves in the shop. some for tig only, a pair for mig, a pair for stick and others for just handling metal, Oh and I keep a pair in my back pocket all the time for the unexpeded.

 

Want to hear how it gets better? They have me TIG said oily metal. All I'm allowed to do is grind the mill scale off and I can't take much off. So the whole tigging with oily gloves don't mean much when I have to TIG directly on the oily metal

 

I mostly wear nitrile gloves in the shop because mostly everything is oily or dirty as hell. No problems with cuts. I think the leather glove is there for the accident not so much to have a guy think he can be careless with them on.

I never owned a pair or used one either but am really impressed with miller mig gloves. They are a joy to just check out.

I wonder why they don't want you to clean the metal, for sure it would make your welding easier to the point where I would probably say to hell with it and clean the material.

 

My shops all about getting the piece out to grinding who cleans it then to powder coat and finally assembly as fast as possible. Cleaning takes too long and they figure you can weld right through it no problem which we all know it doesn't work that way but they believe it does. Really I don't get much porosity or anything that often only every so often when its real dirty then I'll run a rag over it real quick to take the dust and some oil off.

 

Bare hands then welding gloves when time too weld.

 

Well I mean if you want your hands all cut up you could do that but I'd prefer to keep my skin intact....it makes life less painful.

 

i usually don't have a problem. I get a lot better feel and work faster with no gloves. Unless something has sharp edges I'll throw on the stick gloves.

 

I'm with you on that, all my life I have worked without gloves and taken plenty of flak over it. As a teenager I worked as a landscaper and one thing I learned, if you wear gloves you will need gloves. My hands got tough and if I tried to wear gloves I was too clumsy. Of course I wear them for welding, and for razor thin sheet metal work, but that's about it. Oh and on my job as a sparky I wear them on the rare occasion I do energized line work.

 

What is a sparky?

 

electrician

 

I am also bare handed most of the time but when I do wear gloves, I wear Mechanix high impact versions. I will do 95% of my torch cutting and MIG welding with them. Certain times if I feel to much heat when I'm welding, I'll switch to the heavy ones. Usually never a problem with the torch.

 

Concertina wire gloves if you really are working with sharp edges. I am always wrong about things but in my opinion and apparently nobody else where I work thinks this way. It is the persons job that is cutting the stuff to deburr it. I don't find any logical way around that to the point where I stopped deburring other people parts and just ship the stuff out that way now.

 

Wear the free gloves, but you can only complain about them to your coworkers.