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"Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> writes:

> "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:10s643t$11ks6$1@dont-email.me...
>
> On 4/20/2026 1:31 PM, Richard Smith wrote:
>> Snag <Snag_one@msn.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 3/27/2026 1:13 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>> On 3/26/2026 6:36 PM, Snag wrote:
>>>    I have a heavy cotton long sleeve shirt that I use almost
>>>    exclusively for welding . When it's hot I can wet it for evap
>>>   cooling .
>>
>> Thanks for explaining how you can weld in hot places.
>> Damp your clothes and get evaporative cooling...
>>
>> I was working in Cleveland, Ohio, 25 years ago, and the summers were
>> about 35degC (90-high-something Farenheit?) and 90-something % humidity.
>>
>> What onlookers didn't know seeing me working in that metal casting
>> foundry is that as the temperature goes up the relative humidity must
>> surely go down (same amount of water and the temperature has gone up, so
>> the ability to hold water must go up - which means relative humidity
>> lower?).  For sure if you worked hard you got white salt stains on your
>> T-shirt.
>
> I spent a couple summers in the late 70s and early 80s not to far from
> Cleveland.  (20 miles west in Avon)  It was pretty miserable when the
> temps were in the 90s(F).  I'm not so sure about your comments about
> temp and humidity.  In a wet climate like Ohio you get a lot more
> evaporation from the standing water in higher temps, and in some cases I
> was told they would get was called a self feeding rain.
>
> They don't heat air to dry it in an air drier.  They refrigerate it and
> force it to condense.  Heat at much higher temps closer to boiling ARE
> used for forcing moisture out of desiccant and welding rod, but those
> are not human habitable temperatures.
>
> A dual desiccant chamber air dryer does use heat, but its much higher
> heat to evaporate moisture into the air from the desiccant in the
> inactive chamber, while the other chamber is absorbing moisture.
>
> I think in a wet climate more heat, just means more evaporation into the
> air.  Maybe you were just a lot tougher when you were younger.
>
> Maybe there are breaking points where things change?

Hi there

I missed these responses with being
* busy around the garden
* volunteering contributions at the hobby mine (have Eimco 12b - need to
dismantle it and get it down the shaft and some bolted connections have
been welded-up)
* mind caught up on a line of thought about rock crushers.

What Jim describes about optimal - at night, open window or run A-C - is
the concept I was trying to convey (and Jim conveys much better).
How much moisture the air * could hold *.

In a foundry where there is a >locally< higher temperature with nothign
else adjusted to create a new equilibrium, the hotter air * could * hold
more moisture and when you perspire that perspiration * does *
evaporate.  So you get the cooling effect of perspiration.  If you were
to mist yourself and your clothes with water, that would presumably help
- and reduce the amount you are covered in salt encrustations from
sweating ?! :-).

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  Re: Welding Gloves Snag <Snag_one@msn.com> - 2026-03-26 20:36 -0500
    Re: Welding Gloves Bob La Londe <none@none.com99> - 2026-03-27 11:13 -0700
      Re: Welding Gloves Snag <Snag_one@msn.com> - 2026-03-27 15:36 -0500
        Re: Welding Gloves Richard Smith <null@void.com> - 2026-04-20 21:31 +0100
          Re: Welding Gloves Bob La Londe <none@none.com99> - 2026-04-20 13:59 -0700
            Re: Welding Gloves Snag <Snag_one@msn.com> - 2026-04-20 22:41 -0500
              Re: Welding Gloves Bob La Londe <user16941@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-04-21 13:42 +0000
            Re: Welding Gloves "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> - 2026-04-23 13:23 -0400
              Re: Welding Gloves Richard Smith <null@void.com> - 2026-05-01 05:06 +0100
                Re: Welding Gloves "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> - 2026-05-01 06:29 -0400
                Re: Welding Gloves "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> - 2026-05-01 17:23 -0400
                Re: Welding Gloves Richard Smith <null@void.com> - 2026-05-02 06:05 +0100
                Re: Welding Gloves Richard Smith <null@void.com> - 2026-05-02 16:51 +0100
                Re: Welding Gloves "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> - 2026-05-03 19:08 -0400
                Re: Welding Gloves Richard Smith <null@void.com> - 2026-05-04 07:42 +0100
                Re: Welding Gloves "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> - 2026-05-04 07:18 -0400
                Re: Welding Gloves "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> - 2026-05-01 21:18 -0400
          Re: Welding Gloves Snag <Snag_one@msn.com> - 2026-04-20 22:22 -0500
            Re: Welding Gloves Richard Smith <null@void.com> - 2026-05-01 05:10 +0100
            Re: Welding Gloves Richard Smith <null@void.com> - 2026-05-01 05:14 +0100
              Re: Welding Gloves Snag <Snag_one@msn.com> - 2026-05-01 06:58 -0500
                Re: Welding Gloves Bob La Londe <none@none.com99> - 2026-05-01 11:11 -0700
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                Re: Welding Gloves Snag <Snag_one@msn.com> - 2026-05-02 07:02 -0500

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