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A new welding jacket that feels like wearing a piece of plywood is a right of passage, but it does not have to stay that way for long. Whether your jacket is le...
I cannot count the number of times a set of welding magnets saved me from having to build a third hand out of scrap steel and clamps. You are trying to hold a f...
A welding magnet is the third hand you do not have to pay. It holds two pieces of steel at the angle you want while you tack, freeing both your hands for the to...
The first pair of pants I ever ruined in a shop were my favorite jeans, the soft broken-in kind you never want to throw away. I was tacking a bracket overhead,...
Last spring I burned a hole clean through a pair of cotton work pants when a chunk of slag rolled off a coupon and lodged behind my knee. I did the little dance...
FR denim self-extinguishes. Regular jeans don't. Here's the honest buying guide to welding pants, with Carhartt FR, Wrangler FR, and what OSHA actually says.
I did not wear a respirator for the first few years of my welding career. Almost nobody I worked with did. We were outside a lot, the fume plume drifted away fr...
A respirator is only as good as the filter in it, and the question every welder eventually asks is a reasonable one: how do I know when to replace the filter? T...
The first time I tried wearing a standard half-mask respirator under my welding helmet, the helmet sat on top of the respirator and pointed my view at the ceili...
