Anyone know a supplier of welding gauntlets in small size? I have small hands and the only small welding gauntlets are Tig ones which are not thick enough for high amperage welding.
I also have smaller hands however I have been told by some old timers if you wear bigger gloves you can quickly throw then off your hands onto the floor and very rarely get burnt as there by the time the heat has fully travelled through the glove its off your skin rather than fiddling around trying to take a tighter glove off.
With this advice i have always used quite large gloves which take away a bit of dexterity but when I'm stick welding i don't really use that anyway.
I have the opposite problem, never big enough, but the main thing is that I find you always need to try them on as the sizing is rubbish. Even on the same box they are all a bit different. I never buy them mail order because of it.
washing machine, shinks them just fine...... especially when you don't want them to..... must remember to take them out of the boiler suit pocket first...
You can get 'aluminised heat reflective' pads to fit over the glove; they will/do shrink and curl:
Appledore shipbuilders used the same material as a tube with a hole for your thumb, this was a much better idea