From: Snag_one@msn.com   
      
   On 8/10/2025 3:51 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:   
   > I like to try to mention things that are good.  Not just whine about   
   > things that aren't, but as I pointed out before it seems like the moment   
   > I praise something it goes south.   
   >   
   > I've used a lot of welding gloves over the years.  The biggest issue is   
   > my fault of course.  I cook off the fingers.  By the time I realize my   
   > hand is getting hot the fingers are cooked into hard shrunken   
   > caricatures of their former selves.  Most welding gloves are also stiff,   
   > and the softer "TIG" gloves cook off easier than other welding gloves.   
   >   
   > I've been using a pair of Vulcan Defender (Harbor Freight) welding   
   > gloves for the last year or a little better, and I've been doing more   
   > welding in the last couple years than I have in the past.  Just   
   > yesterday I was thinking, "The gloves still haven't cooked of, and they   
   > are much more flexible (for a welding glove) than others I have used.   
   > While they aren't the perfect welding glove they might be the best one I   
   > have used."  I was in the process of taking them off to walk inside and   
   > post about them here on this very newsgroup, when the lining of the   
   > right glove came out with my hand.   
   >   
   > No, its not quite as comical as the mental image that might conjure up   
   > for you.  The liner fingers came out of the leather fingers and part way   
   > up the cuff of the glove.  I wasn't able to just push my fingers back   
   > into to get it situated either.  I had to pull the liner most of the   
   > rest of the way out of the glove, and one finger at a time poke a finger   
   > into the liner to straighten it out.  Then I was able to one at a time   
   > fit my fingers into the liner and push the liner back into the glove.   
   > The glove is saved, but its going to be a pain in the wazoo to use from   
   > now one.  I'll have to grab the finger tip of each finger and pinch the   
   > liner in place as I extract my hand every single time I use it from now on.   
   >   
   > Yes Jim, You Only Have To Think About It   
   >   
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      I've been using the HF 3 pairs for 20 bucks (might be more now)   
   welding gloves for several years now . They're cheap enough I don't   
   freak when I fry one . They work pretty well for casting aluminum and   
   brass too . I'm more careful with the Tillman TIG gloves .   
   --   
   Snag   
   We live in a time where intelligent people   
   are being silenced so that   
   stupid people won't be offended.   
      
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