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PAC1 wrote:Interesting the chief machinest where I served my apprenticeship wore a lab coat
Guineafowl21 wrote:I like my Arkwright-style brown shop coat. Tape measure right pocket, pencil top pocket, other oddments left pocket.
It stops dust and chips getting into my trouser pockets and sleeves (and thereby being transferred to the house). Also looks the part.
Andyp wrote:I prefer to wear a lab coat, press stud fastening. I tried an apron but the open sides and neck just attracted too much debris, especially from the lathe.
Something this
https://www.alsico.co.uk/coat-cotton-rich-315gsm
Andyp wrote:I prefer to wear a lab coat, press stud fastening. I tried an apron but the open sides and neck just attracted too much debris, especially from the lathe.
Something this
https://www.alsico.co.uk/coat-cotton-rich-315gsm
Mike G wrote:Now that is a good idea. I have been wearing my more traditional apron a bit since I started doing a little turning, and it just fills up with shavings.
Lurker wrote:......I found a lab coat that I wore when I was around 25. The damn thing has shrunk to an alarming extent...........
Mike G wrote:Lurker wrote:......I found a lab coat that I wore when I was around 25. The damn thing has shrunk to an alarming extent...........
I see, so it shrank whilst packed away in the dry, untouched for years? Sounds plausible......
PAC1 wrote:Mike G wrote:Lurker wrote:......I found a lab coat that I wore when I was around 25. The damn thing has shrunk to an alarming extent...........
I see, so it shrank whilst packed away in the dry, untouched for years? Sounds plausible......
It is very plausible to me. I had some overalls that I was given when I was about 20. They fit perfectly. By the time I was 45 they had shrunk. The strange thing was they only shrank in the width. The length would have still been perfect. I wonder if Lurkers lab coat suffered the same.
novocaine wrote:PAC1 wrote:It is very plausible to me. I had some overalls that I was given when I was about 20. They fit perfectly. By the time I was 45 they had shrunk. The strange thing was they only shrank in the width. The length would have still been perfect. I wonder if Lurkers lab coat suffered the same.
Any good seamstress will tell you its because of the cut off cloth. Everyone knows it shrinks more in 1 direction.
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