[t walgamuth]

my dad welded at Studebakers back in the late forties early fifties. He said if a drop of molten metal dropped off it would burn through his coverall entering and exiting. You just stood there and waited but if it hit your belt and got stopped by it being too thick to burn through you had to pull your belt and such away from your body so it would pass on down. If it got stuck you got a nasty burn.