Cotton warehouse coat. We had a welder at work who insisted on wearing a shell suit. After one spectacular incident he was christened 'Bob the flambé-ed welder', and told if he wanted to carry on working for us to use the cotton overalls supplied

WoW!

Hold the front page – Jack the Ripper's been caught! Who did he turn out to be? I think we deserve to know.

John "Scoop" Hinkley

Back to reality: thick, pure cotton boiler suit for me. If you want further protection, cultivate a pal on an oil rig. I don't know how they fireproof their kit, but it works against ordinary hazards like welding sparks.

I wear one of these for mig welding, grinding etc. If standing erect or sitting, I also wear the leather apron to protect the frontal aspects of my clothing and anatomy. **LINK**

The label indicates that they come from the far east so I would assume they are available for purchase in several countries, including the UK. I checked before buying and verified that all the meat had in fact been removed from the hide.

Bill

Anyone who would come into casual contact with welding had to wear cotton based overalls but the lads doing mig welding needed full leather:- apron,gloves, spats, amulets and shoulder covers, also an air fed welding helmet, hell on earth on a hot day and this was in a booth with full fume extraction and exhaust filtration. Eventually most of this was done by robots but the attrition on mig guns is severe even with auto torch cleaning and anti spatter fluid. If anyone thinks they can mig weld they should try one of those lads torches, they had everything turned up to 11.

Mike

Edited By Mike Poole on 03/02/2017 21:15:44

I use this.

Hagrids jerkin AKA as a REME tank drivers jacket from a previous life.

Incidentally my daughter used to own one of Fangs puppies, a big stupid soft Neapolitan Mastiff called Ozzie.

I guess it was about 1975 one of the old factory welders came to the training centre to show us how to use gas and stick welders

his first question was "do you all have clean overalls ?"

every one nodded

then without a word , put an oily rag down and opened the oxygen on the oxyacetylene torch

after a short time , the rag began to smoulder – message received by all

John

Edited By john swift 1 on 03/02/2017 23:16:28

When I worked at a steel works the office was issued with two garments to protect anyone from splashed molten iron when visiting the blast furnaces. This was after the Scunthorpe explosion and everyone was well aware of the dangers. The garments were very heavy wool duffle jackets. They came with a short film showing iron being poured on to one. It charred but did not catch fire. By C……… they were warm.

JA

I use cotton trousers and jacket with a wool jumper underneath, heatproof leather gloves and boots, and I do my silver soldering outdoors with the fire extinguisher close by.

Thor

I don't have any propane equipment in my workshop per se, plumbers Mapp gas torch is all… at the mo'. what I use for ppe protection is a cotton warehouse coat & heavy cotton work trousers/ cargo pants for general wear, plus a pair of safety toe capped trainers; for the workshop a couple of small powder extinguishers & a fire blanket on the wall.

George.