[TheForge] Clothing for wear while forging

[Demon Buddha]

Jerry Frost wrote:
> 
> I've gotta differ with you on this George.
> 
> Nomex melts at just a littler higher temp then polyester, nylon, etc. Being
> flame resistant and a good insulator doesn't make it the least resistant
> when coming in contact with hot material, even burning wood.

	I cannot think of a circumstance under which I would want to
	wear plastic clothing at the forge.  I can think of no property
	that such materials have that  I would find desireable for this
	sort of work.  Once it sets to burning, you're in a whole world
	of hurt if that burning material happens to be making contact
	with your skin.  Nomex is intended to give someone, such as a 
	driver, time to get away from a burning vehicle.  If you are in
	the vehicle long enough for your suit to combust, you are already
	dead anyway. Making contact with a 2000 degree piece of steel
	is not what such materials were designed for.  I would not want
	molten plastic on my skin again.  I burned a crater into my
	right palm when I was 14 and thought playing with real napalm was
	a hoot.  I can't begin to tell you what it is like to have
	something THAT hot and THAT large buring a hole into you and
	there is nothing you can do to stop it.  Ow.

	-Andy V.

	In this world gone mad
	We will not spank the monkey.
	The monkey will spank us.