Welding Tips and Tricks

Hi all, I'm pretty new to TIG, been Migging for quite a while now. I've learned from Jody just how important cleanliness of everything is. But I don't think he's ever talked about tig gloves and how they fit into that equation. Am I the only one who can't keep his gloves clean? It doesn't take long for me to get mine dirty because I can't remember to take them off whenever I pick up a piece of steel, or the grinder, or a clamp, or a whatever. I just wonder about wiping down a piece of filler with acetone and then feeding it into the puddle with dirty gloves. My SOD's (stack of dimes) are getting better each time I weld so I wonder if this is a moot point. Whadd'ya all think?

Keep a pair of material handling gloves close by to move steel around. Maybe keep a separate pair of TIG gloves for doing stainless if the others are too bad.

I do mostly machined stainless parts, so my dirty gloves may be clean to someone else, you have to judge for yourself what is the appropriate level of cleanliness required for the work you do, and take the necessary steps to stay in (whatever) boundary lines you deem right.

I usually have two pairs of gloves around while welding. Especially when I'm doing aluminium. One for the welding and he other older dirtier pair for moving things about.


If it's something important then I'll grab a new set of gloves because re work sometimes isn't possible or it quickly exceeds the cost of gloves ahaha.



But to be honest I've welded with some very dirtylooking gloves before but have never noticed a real difference.

My personal thought on it if the glove is dirty but nothing flakes off or leaves prints on things then I think you'll be good to go.




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I never thought about that, and I never had a problem with that.

I do change my gloves pretty frequently though, I usually keep them separate because I prefer my white palm gloves to stay white for as long as possible.

I like to do stuff as high quality as possible so if you are that way as well, then sure, swap gloves. I have gloves for metalworking, TIG, Stick, MIG, different jackets, you know. A wardrobe. I even have an apron.

Olivero wrote: I even have an apron.

hopefully it's not a Hello Kitty apron...

LtBadd wrote:

Olivero wrote: I even have an apron.

hopefully it's not a Hello Kitty apron...

That would be awesome though,

Just what, is wrong with having a 'Hello Kitty' apron?

Yup, you're the only one, we all keep separate gloves for TIG'ing and for handling other stuff.

Ain't nothing wrong with a hello kitty apron.

Clean TIG Gloves vs. Frustration = Cheap investment. It's more critical to keep them clean when you're working with Aluminum and you will pick up a piece of hot metal with them a few times when you're first starting out but after a while you'll develop good habits and the cost of replacing them will lessen. I think they are on Weldmonger.com for 14.50. Buy a couple of pairs if you can afford it.

I wear the Tillman cuffless work gloves and use an extra large tig finger under my wrist if I'm propping off my wrist. Just my preference there's nothing wrong with the cuffed ones.