welding gauntlets as gloves???

warped one · Banned Joined: 25 Dec 2007 Karma :

As a fabricator i use welding gauntlets everyday, the best thing about them is, that they are warm but they are also amazingly abrasion resistant. i have used them on my bike before in the snow and they are amazing, also TIG gloves make good summer gloves they offer same protection just thinner and cooler. Has anyone else tried these or similar.

Cheers

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Walloper · Super Spammer Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Karma :

Bike gloves have less pading on the fingers/palms to give better feel for controls switches.
Welding gloves are shite at keeping dry and can't be secured to your hand.
Bike gloves should be fastened so they cannot be dragged off it you are sliding down the road.

Not a good solution IMO.

Pair of gloves cost about £50

Skin to cover a Pair of hands Priceless. Smile

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mr jamez · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Aug 2003 Karma :

Welding gloves are good for welding. But I couldn't ride in mine and I bet that in a crash they would just fly off due to the fact they are so loose!

Fail.
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Ariel Badger · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Dec 2006 Karma :

Would bike gloves be good for welding in?
No.
Welding gloves therefore are not good for riding in.
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G · The Voice of Reason Joined: 02 Feb 2002 Karma :

I've used bike gloves for welding ok.

I wouldn't really use welding gloves on the bike for protection though - I'm pretty sure any semi-decent bike glove should have been treated and the like to give better abrasion protection, which a welding glove won't have.

warped one · Banned Joined: 25 Dec 2007 Karma :

i think that welding gauntlets would be better than bike glove in a crash as they are designed to withstand multiple blows from a grinder but as said they are not attached to you in anyway and clarify for the safety nazi's i do not recomend using them everyday or in any way that they are better than bike gloves i am merely compairing
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nick606 · World Chat Champion Joined: 12 Nov 2006 Karma :

I actually read in one of the bike mags that welding gloves are better than 19 of the 20 tested only ones that came out above where £200 (summer gloves). Only problem is they only come in a size 12.

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MarJay · But it's British! Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Karma :

RiDE mag did a test with some welding gloves as the 'control' glove. The welding glove came out top for abrasion, and they said with a bit of modification to add cuff straps they would have won the test outright.

So Razz

to all those who said not to. Add some kind of wrist restraints on them, and they are probably better than any bike gloves short of spending £200...
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Pete. · Super Spammer Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Karma :

Unfortunately the let water through like a sieve.
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colin1 · Captain Safety Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Karma :

i suspect that they may be fine for abrasion, but doubt they have any protection against impact
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colin1 · Captain Safety Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Karma :

i think there was something similar that tested a cheese sandwich versus padding found in some jackets

the cheese sandwich gave better protection in some cases Smile

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warped one · Banned Joined: 25 Dec 2007 Karma :

like i said i do not expect anyone to see it fit to wear this sort of glove for everyday use, but just as a comparison. but like previously stated they have been tested against bike gloves and come out quite good against them, i think that if the manufacturers could make a glove with the similar stuff then they would be amazing and i would definately buy a pair. TIG gloves are good because they are so thin (made of pig skin if i remember right) but offer slightly less protection. I will this at work.
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warped one · Banned Joined: 25 Dec 2007 Karma :

As said in my previous post "i will test tomorow" well tomorow is now today and the test has been conducted. I used a bog standard pair blue gauntlets (medium thickness) with a 24grit sand pad on a grinder. Now bear in mind the grinder will have a very small area on the glove, compaired to a crash. and the edge of the disk spins at 80m/s which is 192mph or 288kph i subjected the glove to a 5 sec burst on the glove figuring that in a crash it is very rare to slide down the road on your hands for more than a
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warped one · Banned Joined: 25 Dec 2007 Karma :

sorry about 2 posts on psp won't do long texts.

split second unless you are unlucky enough to fall off and slide just on your hands. But anyway the results from my simple experiment showed that the glove withstood not just 1 blow from the grinder but 4 all in the same place in an area of 20x5mm i however did not subject my own bike gloves to this as they are new, it f@<kin' freezing and only a complete moron would ride with no gloves on whatever the weather would put up pics but comp is bust so can't
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warped one · Banned Joined: 25 Dec 2007 Karma :

sorry about 2 posts on psp won't do long texts.

split second unless you are unlucky enough to fall off and slide just on your hands. But anyway the results from my simple experiment showed that the glove withstood not just 1 blow from the grinder but 4 all in the same place in an area of 20x5mm i however did not subject my own bike gloves to this as they are new, it f@<kin' freezing and only a complete moron would ride with no gloves on whatever the weather would put up pics but comp is bust so can't
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ram_doom · World Chat Champion Joined: 25 Mar 2006 Karma :

But what your welding gloves dont have, is

1. A means of securing them around the wrist, to stop the hand coming out of the glove.

2. The pinky finger is not attached to its neighbor by a thin strip of leather, like on many race spec gloves, so leaves the pinky finger at greater risk of being broken in an off (very common injury, apparently)

3. Any style whatsoever Razz

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