Posted by JimmieD on Wednesday, November 17, 2004 at 10:59AM :
In Reply to: Re: Little cloth watch bands with buckles... posted by Mike D in CT on Tuesday, November 16, 2004 at 8:21PM :
An old trick is to use some of that spray-on starch on your denim shirts and jeans, as it closes up some of the fiber 'pockets' that can catch welding slag and grinder tracers. I mean, you do iron your work clothes, don't you!??
Somebody correct me, but I seem to remember that wool is a preferred clothing 'cause it won't readily burn?
Also plastic lense eyeglasses aren't as durable for scratches, but they won't pick up craters from welding/grinding slag like glass lenses will. Toasted a $300 pair of 'scrips that way and learned my lesson, the hard way as usual.
Oh, and you can buy or make leather or canvass gaitors for your work boots to protect the toes and lacings; and at the price of good leather boots now it's an investment.
JimmieD
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