HoosierQ
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Obviously our troops in Iraq are pretty much all wearing the Nomex (I assume it's Nomex) pilot gloves as tactical accessories. Protects against burns from all kinds of things including sun heated surfaces. These are the green or brown knit gloves with the sort of grey leather reinforcements on the fingers...you know what I mean.
At any rate, my local surplus store has some but they seem odd to me. The Nomex fabric on these things stop where the leather starts so there is no fabric under the leather. That seems like an odd way to do it and it makes me think despite their $35 price tag, these may be knock-offs, Nomex or not.
Every knit glove with a leather palm I've ever seen (from when I was a kid to the sort of stuff Cabelas sells) has the leather sewn on to the knit fabric (usually rag wool) and thus the fabric completely surrounds the hand.
With a fireproof/resistant glove like this, I would think you'd want the fireproof/resistant fabric completely covering your fingers.
Any knowlegeable folks out there or servicemen/women who know what these things should really look like in terms of construction?
At any rate, my local surplus store has some but they seem odd to me. The Nomex fabric on these things stop where the leather starts so there is no fabric under the leather. That seems like an odd way to do it and it makes me think despite their $35 price tag, these may be knock-offs, Nomex or not.
Every knit glove with a leather palm I've ever seen (from when I was a kid to the sort of stuff Cabelas sells) has the leather sewn on to the knit fabric (usually rag wool) and thus the fabric completely surrounds the hand.
With a fireproof/resistant glove like this, I would think you'd want the fireproof/resistant fabric completely covering your fingers.
Any knowlegeable folks out there or servicemen/women who know what these things should really look like in terms of construction?