Women are different than men, especially when it comes to personal
protective equipment for welding. Check out the newest additions to Revco’s line of AngelFire™ welding wear for women–  practical, sized right and stylish!

The new stick welding glove is designed exclusively for women and provides a great answer to a basic problem. Until recently, the common make-do glove solution for most women welders was to purchase men’s gloves in size small. Not only were they difficult to find, but they were typically of low quality and still failed to fit properly.

Just as practical, the new Hybrid™ welding jacket is tailored for a woman’s body so she no longer has to wear bulky men’s jackets or go without welding protection at all, neither of which are safe options.

Revco’s new LS50 women’s stick glove leverages the company’s extensive glove-making experience along with cutting-edge features from their performance BSX® line, which has become a favorite
among professional welders and hobbyists. The women’s design is embellished with a swirl decoration and includes features such as high quality genuine leathers, strategic reinforcements, Revco’s exclusive DragPatch®, and a pre-curved ergonomic construction that maximizes dexterity while helping to reduce fatigue.

The BW9C/PS Hybrid™ women’s welding jacket incorporates grain pigskin sleeves into the already popular AngelFire™ flame resistant jacket. It features adjustable waist straps to provide maximum fit, a stand-up welder’s collar, slant-opening scribe pockets, and a zippered inner pocket. Most
significantly, the grain pigskin sleeves add durability and protection where they count most. The warm chocolate brown of the FR cotton complemented by the strong black sleeves appeals to women welders everywhere.

The AngelFire™ line of women’s welding gear is available now through Arc-Zone.com. Details and information about AngelFire™ products can be found at www.angelfiregear.com.

About Revco Industries
Revco Industries, Inc., based in Santa Fe Springs, California, is a leading glove and protective apparel company with over 30 years of
service to the welding and industrial sectors. The company designs, develops, and distributes a full range of innovative protective wear
nationwide through welding supply distributors, tool and hardware retailers, and equipment rental dealers. Revco Industries markets its
products under the umbrella trade name Black Stallion®, which encompasses associated brands such as Tool Handz™, MightyMIG™,
Tigster™ and Hybrid™. More information about Revco Industries and its products can be found at www.revcoindustries.com.

I’ve been remiss in keeping this blog up to date on Arc-Zone.com news… LOTS going on to share.

First, we’ve added a ton of Welding Safety Gear from Miller, including welding  helmets, Respiratory Safety equipment, Heat Stress Gear, and Welding Gloves and Arc Armor Welding Apparel–  and this is in addition to all the Welding Safety Apparel we already had ready to ship!

As you’ll notice from the ad display on the left, Arc-Zone can also hook you up with a great deal:  $25 cash back if you buy a Miller Elite Series Helmet and gloves.  So if you’re in the market for a new helmet, consider doing your shopping before the September 30 deadline.

And in case you missed it, our June Newsletter has been posted online….  you’ll find tons of safety information there to help you celebrate (welding)  Safety Month!

I don’t think I’ve ever laughed so hard at work before!  This guy has a gift – if not for welding, then definitely for writing!

Attempting to weld in the age of duct tape

Al Batt, Tales from Exit 22
Published Wednesday, March 10, 2010

I don’t like to wear socks.

I wear them but I don’t like it.

I consider socks to be a fire hazard.

I took a welding class at a college that once thrived in Waseca.

It wasn’t my idea. It was my employer’s idea. He felt that the duct tape I used wasn’t as strong as a weld. He was annoyingly conscientious. Welding started during the Bronze Age, and it survives into the Duct Tape Age. I went to college during the day and worked nights. The welding class gave me something to fill those hours that I had been wasting on sleep.

My father had taught me how to weld with a derelict welder he had rescued from a junkyard. It was a serious stapler that performed basic farm welding with little attention paid to aesthetics.

On the farm, I welded broken wagon tongues and tractor hitches. I gave up welding once I quit breaking wagon tongues and tractor hitches.

I would have been happy not knowing anything more about welding. Welding isn’t even an Olympic event. It could be in the Winter Olympics. Replacing the brooms with welders would make curling a little more exciting.

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Crazy Germans and their sausage.  And I fully mean that as a compliment, because we here at Arc-Zone.com were all amazed and highly entertained by what happened next.

German welders + sausage + welding machine = Electric grill for men??

Adventurous Germans Grill Sausages with an Industrial Welder

“Eventually, the tube was so hot that the arc had to be shut down because the fat was on the verge of spontaneous combustion.”

By Vin Marshall  Posted 03.22.2010

Barbecue grills don’t typically require eye protection, but then, they’re typically not made from a giant TIG welder and an industrial sausage positioner either.

That’s something these Germans set out to change with the “Electric Grill For Men.”

What would you do if you needed to endurance-test a large industrial welding power supply?

You’d probably rig up something like the apparatus pictured here, in which a TIG welding torch draws a continuous arc along a slowly rotating piece of aluminum tubing mounted in a work positioner normally used for pipe welding.

As the long weld bead is laid down, the power supply is tested to verify that it can maintain its rated output and duty cycle without melting down. In the process, a great deal of heat is generated.

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How do you wear your hair to work?  Up?  Down?  Short?  Long?

In the 1940′s there were no two ways about it — to look good, and keep safe, there was only one iconic actress to emulate: Veronica Lake.

There are jobs for welders out there:

Program Trains Welders For Shipyards

Welding Instructor: No Experience Required For Students

PORTLAND, Ore. — A local program is training a new generation of welders for Portland’s shipyards.

As part of the program, students first learn their skills at Portland Community College and the Swan Island Training Center. Vigor Marine, a ship-building company, hires the best and gives them on-the-job training and experience.

“You’re going to be trained to do everything: rigging, fitting, grinding,” said Mike Rasmussen, a welding instructor. “This program offers students to come in with no experience, knowing nothing about this trade.”

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This has to be my favorite topic post ever from the Miller Discussion Boards. It started three years ago, and amazingly, continues up until, probably whenever you’re reading this! There’ve been over five hundred responses, and since we couldn’t list them all for you, I picked out twenty of my favorites – see if you recognize any!

You Might Be a Welder If…

Got any more YMBAWI quotes?  Let’s start another marathon thread here!

Northland Pioneer College in Arizona had a problem – a good problem.  More students were enrolling in their practical welding classes than ever before, but that also meant a greater output of welding fumes than the school’s homemade ventilation system could put up with.  More kids?  Ditch the fumes please!

Fumes + Weld students = Bad news

Vocational school cleans up air for thriving weld program
March 14, 2009

A welding program in northeastern Arizona, looking to improve the air quality in its welding lab, replaced its fume extraction equipment.

Located in the mountains of northeastern Arizona, Northland Pioneer College provides real-life experiences to high school juniors and seniors in 11 area school districts through its dual enrollment program. In conjunction with Northern Arizona Vocational Institute of Technology (NAVIT), a partner institution, NPC/NAVIT offers courses ranging from cosmetology to welding.

One of the most popular classes at NPC/NAVIT is the welding applications program, which provides students with the skills necessary to become National Center for Construction Education and Research- (NCCER) and American Welding Society- (AWS) certified welders. Led by weld instructor Curtis Casey, NPC/NAVIT’s weld program has taken off, expanding to facilities in Holbrook and St. Johns, and attracting high school, charter school, home-schooled, and college students, as well as tradesmen and hobbyist welders.

“We were the first and are still the only AWS-endorsed educational and testing facility in northeastern Arizona,” Casey said.

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My first thought when I stumbled upon the following website was: “PINK!!”  Just like that – all caps.

I had just found the homepage of Charm and Hammer, a website dedicated to “safety gear for the hard working woman™.  It has everything you could ever want or need in a work environment.

Safety goggles?  Check.

Welding gloves?  Check.

Hot pink toolbelt?  Definitely check!

I swear that if you counted, at least 75% percent of the products on that website are pink!  And they aren’t ashamed of it!

They also feature products from two different companies, of which I am also a fan:

Rosie’s Workwear for Women and

Tomboy Tools.

The former makes lovely overalls and coveralls AND the t-shirt to the left (which I was very tempted to order — after all, we here at Carmen Electrode can never get enough of Rosie!)  The latter — well, where else would you go to find pink power tools?!?

You guys (er, girls) have to check these sites out – your work wardrobe may never be the same again!

However, if pink is not your thing (like maybe you don’t want to stick out like a sore thumb on the work site),  check out the

AngelFire™ Gear at Arc-Zone.com –>

We carry this state of the art line of welding gear for women, inlcuding the Firefly™ TIG gloves, made especially for women, all in a nice chocolate brown.