Reddit reviews Caiman 1878-5 21-Inch One Size Fits All Genuine American Deerskin Welding Glove with Boarhide Leather Heat Shield and Cuff
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Designed for overhead welding, stick and plasmaIndustry first 21 inch glove with heavy duty paddingGenuine American Deer split palmBoarhide leather heat shield patch, reinforced palm, cuff and lean on patchSewn with Kevlar thread
Caiman makes an extra long cuff glove That's supposedly pretty nice. (be warned - they're kind of expensive)
Miller also recently came out with an extra long cuff glove
Or, you could use your existing gloves with a pipe welder's arm pad/sleeve on your left forearm
Spendy pipe pad/sleeve
Cheaper arm pad option
Or if you don't need anything that heavy duty, perhaps just a simple elastic band fit tig welder's sleeve
Or.... If you really want cheap and simple, go to the pet store and buy a small dog collar to cinch the cuffs on your coveralls so they don't slide down when you're doing overhead.
For your welding the key basics to practice are clean materials. (Your doing great with your wire brush if it's really pitted consider grinding the surface smooth.)
Practice a cursive e motion. You want to go show enough that you have a puddle of liquid metal your dragging along as you make your e but fast enough that you don't burn through your material (it will spark when it's burning) you are also going slow enough that you pre warm the area your heading too.
Try to hook your ground clamps as close to your weld area as possible and on to the more substantial piece of material. The area the ground attaches too should be clean metal as well for the best results.
Never weld galvanised pipe you can die from metal flume fever (zinc poisoning) don't ask me how I know.... If you really have to then make sure your in an incredibly well ventilated area and never do it indoors or even near the mouth of a garage.
For welding gloves you want something that goes to the elbow. You don't know pain until you have a molten slag bb get into your clothes and burn into your skin it sucks. I've been using these for the last 5 years with moderate hobby use and they have heald up great. I've run about 30 lbs of wire through my welder over that time.