welding protective equipment

[justjeff25]

I started wearing sunscreen lately. It really seems to help when people around me are welding at the same time.

[jamlit]

I use leather laces but allot of guys use lace guards or buy welding boots.

I also wear Air liquide leather welding jacket, cheap leather gloves and the miller eleite auto welding sheild.

[Darmik]

All I use is cotton coveralls although i do have a leather jacket.
But I dont do much out of position welding here see pic.
To mark steel i use soap stone or silver streak for aluminum and stainless I use a sharpy.

[Darmik]

All I use is cotton coveralls although i do have a leather jacket.
But I dont do much out of position welding here see pic.
To mark steel i use soap stone or silver streak for aluminum and stainless I use a sharpy.

I'll post a pic with the kind of boots you should by that will cover your laces and protect you upper foot from falling objects because we all know metal will hit your foot just behind your steel toes just so we can do the pain dance.

[Darmik]

protective welding gear

Hey just jeff here are some of the things you should have to protect your self with

[Darmik]

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Here is a bit more

[paulrbrown]

Jeff, another consideration as to a grinding hood is to use a welding hood with only a clear lens. You don't get the distortion as from a curved lens and they are about 1/10 the price for replacing the lens. I like the type of earplugs that look like a honeydipper or top, with strings, that way you can put them in and they start working right away, or pull them out to talk to those that can't understand to speak up. Just wet them and they slide in real easy, The string is very helpful even if you use the foam plugs, which I used for 25 years before I tried the others. Tillman makes some full length Gloves make of Elk Hide, 625 I think the # is, but they have no insulation, more dexterity, but if you are not doing any real hot type welding, they are great because heat does not make them shrink up like leather. Don't use any gloves with nylon/synthetic parts [Mechanicswear, ect] as they will melt, I have the scars to back that up. And as others pointed out, 'Safety Glasses' Man...don't go anywhere with out some....weldin and grindin is worse than a 'Red Ryder' BB Gun for you eyes. A cowboy bandana is also a good thing to keep slag,sparks and what not outta your shirt and UV off your neck, it will burn fast.....you can also wind up some icecubes in there for summertime.....to put in your drink or just stay cool. Hope this does some good....Paul