Thin-palmed, thick-backed arc gloves

[Heath Robinson]

Hi all.
I've been doing some heavy arc stuff in a tight space, with previously-bruised knuckles. My thin gloves are too thin, and my thick gauntlets are too thick between the fingers, and in the grip, if you see what I mean. The bruised knuckles make doing anything in the thick gloves almost impossible.
Does anyone make gloves that have a heavy enough back to take the heat of 140-odd amps fairly close, and thin enough palms and fingers to allow good flex and grip?
There seems to be a convention that the palms have to be the same thickness as the backs, which makes no sense to me. I've seen the aluminiumised-leather backed ones, but I'm loath to shell out well over a tenner without knowin whether they're useful to me, or just as cumbersome as the cheapo ones that I already have.
Maybe I'm just looking for a solution for a problem no-one else has, but I'd still like to find an answer.

Cheers,
Jake

 

[Shox Dr]

I've cut the finger ends off, and the palm out of a pair of heavy MIG gloves, and put over a pair of TIG gloves in the past

 

[gavuk]

I could do with replaceable index fingers ,always burn there and shrivel first

 

[sm-]

I have used the 118 model of these http://www.ejendals.se/1618.php?136...tems[]=128731,itemgroup=,top=114,pagingpage=1

And they have worked good.

 

[Heath Robinson]

Thanks, those look like the badgers, where do you get them? I can only find them in 12-packs in this country!