Your Other Glove

[old miner called Pop]

That's a perfect symbiotic relationship right there lol. I would burn the skin off of my right hand with 350 amps.

The knuckles on both my hands have been burnt black many times, the coal dirt dont help the situation much either, but I got big ugly lookin callouses and scars on em from it but they still do what needs done. Ive even used the big ol gloves with the heat shields that snap on to the glove and Ive burnt through those in a day or 2, they are somethin like 43 bucks a pair these days, I dont use em that much mostly for jet arcin if I really really need em, too damn expensive. Most of the time I dont even know my knuckles are burnin up anymore, then I pull the glove off and the hide comes along with the glove.



Damn $105 for a pair but 2k deg F max protection sounds great. What are you welding with 750 amps?

750 amps is a helluva lot of juice right there, the highest Ive ever gone that I can remember was about 480 amps with my 502D.

[smithdoor]

It was a 750 Miller cv welder with a 30E feeder .120 wire.

Dave

750 amps is a helluva lot of juice right there, the highest Ive ever gone that I can remember was about 480 amps with my 502D.

[old miner called Pop]

It was a 750 Miller cv welder with a 30E feeder ,120 wire.

Dave

That job was smokin!!!

[smithdoor]

It was a lot cost for equipment and very few jobs that used on.
Should just purchased a 300 amp welder.

Dave

That job was smokin!!!

[elgie]

My first day in my first welding class in 1975, the instructor told us we would only wear out one glove of the pair. Tru Dat!

[Ambull01]

Anyone try one of those guns with the long necks? Wondering if that would help although would be cheaper to just buy new pairs periodically

[Munkul]

Anyone try one of those guns with the long necks? Wondering if that would help although would be cheaper to just buy new pairs periodically

Problem with that is you just end up holding the gun further up the neck, you still need control. Unless you have rock steady arms and wrists like some of these pipeliner guys I watch.

[Munkul]

It was a 750 Miller cv welder with a 30E feeder .120 wire.

Dave

wow, that's impressive... biggest wire I've seen is solid 3/32" wire for two wire metal spraying on a 500 amp DC source, and that was a bit unmanageable since we only wanted 250-300 amps... we dropped to 1/16" wire a couple of years ago because it was easier to buy.
The size of the wire bundles in 3/32" was a pain... loose bundles around 25-30kg of wire in a 30" coil.... and what a nightmare threading up was... the stuff didn't want to bend. It had a specific straightener roller setup to help it flow through the liners.

1/16" you can run on a 12" spool and it's far easier to manage.

[old miner called Pop]

Anyone try one of those guns with the long necks? Wondering if that would help although would be cheaper to just buy new pairs periodically

I have one that I use on occasion for different stuff its a foot long. It takes some getting used to. I use it if I cant reach in to something very good with my hands and the gun together. Its a pain in the butt though to try and store it on my rig though.

One thing Ive been doin for years is slipping a piece of old air hose thats fits snug over the tube on the gooseneck if you have a habit of holding the gun with your lead hand there. I try to avoid doin that but sometimes it just isnt possible. The tube gets hot the air hose adds a bit of insulation so you dont burn your fingers as much. My Ironmate 126 guns have a heat shield on them but sometimes that gets in the way and I take it off, and its just a little thing and dont really protect your hand much. That Ironmate can only be used for self shielded wire though. You can get creative and make a heat shield if you want to. But hey...if this was easy and didnt mess your baby soft hands they would have kids and little old ladies doin it 24-7 for 3 bucks an hour

[farmersammm]

Looks handy for keeping the heat away from your left hand.

[smithdoor]

I only used 50 or 60 coils of flux core wire.
I would not use solid wire it was ban from the shop.

It was a learning experience do not buy a big welder there very little work.

Just the cost of bringing power to 750 amp size welder is high.

The best size of welders is 150 to 300 amps.

Dave

wow, that's impressive... biggest wire I've seen is solid 3/32" wire for two wire metal spraying on a 500 amp DC source, and that was a bit unmanageable since we only wanted 250-300 amps... we dropped to 1/16" wire a couple of years ago because it was easier to buy.
The size of the wire bundles in 3/32" was a pain... loose bundles around 25-30kg of wire in a 30" coil.... and what a nightmare threading up was... the stuff didn't want to bend. It had a specific straightener roller setup to help it flow through the liners.

1/16" you can run on a 12" spool and it's far easier to manage.

[Oscar]

Problem with that is you just end up holding the gun further up the neck, you still need control. Unless you have rock steady arms and wrists like some of these pipeliner guys I watch.

Unless you make a conscious effort to not hold the gun further up the neck and use that as a means of practicing to hone in on the necessary muscle memory retention. The advantage being that once you do build up the muscle memory, you now have more options and can still opt to hold the gun neck when you can, and when you can't you know how to use your learned skill. But when you haven't practiced it and have only welded by holding onto the neck/nozzle all the time, then getting out of that rhythm at a moment's notice is not always an option.

[old miner called Pop]

Unless you make a conscious effort to not hold the gun further up the neck and use that as a means of practicing to hone in on the necessary muscle memory retention. The advantage being that once you do build up the muscle memory, you now have more options and can still opt to hold the gun neck when you can, and when you can't you know how to use your learned skill. But when you haven't practiced it and have only welded by holding onto the neck/nozzle all the time, then getting out of that rhythm at a moment's notice is not always an option.

Yup just like using your other hand to weld or anything else...Im left-handed and had my left hand broke and some fingers smashed in the mines when I was a young snot...I kept workin and welded right handed, wrote right-handed, wiped my butt right handed and so on, to this day im just about as good right-handed as left-handed...but then again it took nine months for it all to heal up, so I had some time to get used to bein right-handed

[Country Metals]

You can purchase a heat shield that will fit around your glove so that doesnt happen so much. Little bulky but it's better then breaking in new gloves all the time.

Really great for high heat mig welds

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[farmersammm]

Yup just like using your other hand to weld or anything else...Im left-handed and had my left hand broke and some fingers smashed in the mines when I was a young snot...I kept workin and welded right handed, wrote right-handed, wiped my butt right handed and so on, to this day im just about as good right-handed as left-handed...but then again it took nine months for it all to heal up, so I had some time to get used to bein right-handed

So.........................................as a kid, ya were a left handed fwapper...............didja learn to do it right handed??????????

[smithdoor]

Sorry to here about your fingers 😢

Dave

Yup just like using your other hand to weld or anything else...Im left-handed and had my left hand broke and some fingers smashed in the mines when I was a young snot...I kept workin and welded right handed, wrote right-handed, wiped my butt right handed and so on, to this day im just about as good right-handed as left-handed...but then again it took nine months for it all to heal up, so I had some time to get used to bein right-handed

[smithdoor]

I can use both hands
There has been times I had to weld with my Left-hand do to location.

Both on my wife and I are right handed but we both use left-handed mouse on the computers.

Dave

So.........................................as a kid, ya were a left handed fwapper...............didja learn to do it right handed??????????

[old miner called Pop]

So.........................................as a kid, ya were a left handed fwapper...............didja learn to do it right handed??????????

YUp, Ibecame very ambidextrous after that.

Intresting though was when I was growin up I cut timber and wood with my dad, he gave me a hatchet when I was 5 and taught me how to use it and sharpen in it, at age 8 he gave me a double bit axe for my birthday. I was proud as a peacock of that thing and took it to school for show and tell... teacher wasnt very happy about that...these days they would say you are raising a serial killer. Anyway for some reason i was using either hand for the hatchet and when I got the axe I was swingin it left or right handed just depending on the situation. After all that while playin baseball I was a natural switch hitter and was hittin em out over the fence from either side when I was 10 years old, couldnt throw for s%$t and was clumsy as hell trying to catch ground balls but I could hit a baseball into the high school football field when I tried out for the high school team. I didnt make the team so I went back to work in the mines

[old miner called Pop]

Sorry to here about your fingers 

Dave

Its all good, they get stiff and and I cant keep em warm in the winter but there is a lot of hard miles on em, when you figure what a workin man puts his hands through in a lifetime its to be expected I suppose