"Andy Dingley " wrote:

Pete C. wrote:
"Andy Dingley " wrote:

Here's a test. Take a sausage, shove a chopstick up the middle to
simulate bone, stick it in a finger of the glove and then jam it into
the bandsaw. See just how much damage the sausage suffers.
(I did this a while ago with a plasma cutter - interesting results)

Got pictures? I may have to try this...

Somewhere, but I don't think they ever got put on line.

More cheerfully, it appears that a leather welding glove is adequate to
protect fingers against plasma cutters. You'll probably acquire a burn
in a while, but it's hardly a Dr Evil lazer-slicer type accident.

Really? The way my Hypertherm Powermax 1000 tore through a piece of
railroad rail (not in use in a rail line of course) I'd think that pilot
arc would blow through the glove in microseconds. Have to test it with
an old glove and a hot dog I guess.

Pete C.