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Can anyone recommend some good lightweight welding overalls for summer use. My overalls are too hot to use in the summer and I noe have lots of little burns on my arms and legs.
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Lightweight and weld resistant seems impossible; they're either one or the other, both is seemingly not achievable, at least not for a reasonable cost. My employer gives me Portwest flame retardant, which need to be broken in and washed a few times before they're remotely comfortable and are pretty heavy for summer temperatures, even on the North Sea.
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outofthefire
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our overalls are the same as Penfolds when it's too warm I just weld in my tshirt and welding sleeves, if it's really spattery I wear a leather apron. Tiny burns are just part of welding for a living especially if you have to weld galv.
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I struggle with overalls, they all fire too easily. Good luck finding lightweight ones that don't!
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i get mine from these chaps
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/overalls4u/
Have a shop around they sell allsorts mostly 2nd hand but well worth it
As for lightweight i'd rather wear heavy duty no matter what the weather
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/overalls4u/
Have a shop around they sell allsorts mostly 2nd hand but well worth it
As for lightweight i'd rather wear heavy duty no matter what the weather
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Google you nearest MOD sales, we used to have light weight flame proof overalls.
Keep away from Navy ones, very good, but heavy.
Try to find REME light weight, by now all the nylon stock will have gone.
Keep away from Navy ones, very good, but heavy.
Try to find REME light weight, by now all the nylon stock will have gone.
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I get my welding coats from any charity shops most have leather jackets in, for £10 just rip the lining out, makes it cooler get bomber style with zips and cuff closers, most are much more flexible leather than 'proper' welding coats and fit better.
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Cheers guys, thanks for the suggestions. Had a close call last week when a blob fell on my leg while doing some overhead welding and burnt a 2inch line where it rolled over the skin. Was thinking a box would be the safe option.
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IS that ALL??
hehe
when its hot and only wearing overalls I have had them enter the neck and roll, burning all the way down and they always seem to get caught up in my 
skidies and seem always to rest there for a while until you do start doing the welders twist 
and they drop down into your socks.Chubby, nick name -- chequer plate, the welder wrote a song about it and it goes like this ;;
Come all you welders clap your hands
Ahhh you're looking good
I'm gonna spit and sting and I won't take long
I'm gonna make you do the twist and it goes like this
Round 'n around 'n up 'n down we go again
Oh glob of spater you touch me so again
Lets Twist again, it's such a bummer
Come on twist again, like when, I was in your ear
Do you remember when,
The Mig was really hummin',
I'll make you twist again,
Twistin' time is here!
Who's that, flyin' up there?
Is it a bird? no
Is it a plane? no
Is it the spatter? yeah
OK OK I'll get my coat
welding one
of course!!
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Perhaps if you don't feel a need to move it's possible to get suited up enough to avoid it, but as far as I know getting spatter in unpleasant places is just part of welding.
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Got my £9.50 leather welding jacket today from the local charity shop. My Mrs seems concerned that I plan to rip out the liner, I think she wants me to wear it.
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^^ Why do I think...."Mafia" when I look at that......? 
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Just need to look out for leather trousers as well now for the full pimp look.
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Of course, Hit men do not advertise.
Of course, Hit men do not advertise.
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Unless you're dead set on it leave the lining in, it will be a lot more comfortable.
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Yep, definitely true - you could always spot a crabmariner because their 8s were a different colour. That and the smell
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The guy who ran the 4.5/close range section before me was one of those legendary drinking types - there were stories of him sinking half a dozen pints of beamish in the PO's mess and then trotting off to do a half marathon at Port Stanley when the ship was down the falklands!
I could more than hold my own with the drinking but I wasn't fit for much else after!
