[TheForge] Re: welding heat

Sat Aug 9 23:18:00 2003

My welding teacher years ago told me a similar story about a third world
country he visited, it was a shipyard also and none of the guys there used
any eye protection while welding, the mind boggles, even in a poor country
surely your sight is worth at least a home made lens from some sort of dark
glass etc
Ive heard that the pain from even a few minutes without any eye protection
which comes on a day or so later is extreme.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: 05 August, 2003 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: welding heat


> To make Paul, Ren and Stimpy's point a little more memorable...
> A story told to me by a friend who was in the navy and was in a major
> oriental port where work was being done on his ship.
> It involved a skilled professional welder, he guessed to be about 40
> years old and was told , supported an extended family on his earnings.
> Every morning his kids carried his lunch and led him down to the
> shipyard for work.
> The foreman sat him down with a pile of arc rods in front of the part to
> be welded and handed him the stinger.
> As soon as he struck the arc, he could see what he was doing and went on
> to work a very long day.
> He had no arc welding helmet. When the day's work was done, his kids
> lead him home again.
> My friend said that his eyes looked sort of like the eyes of a cooked
> fish..not quite that opaque...more like wall to wall cataracts.
> What Mr Hewitt says is worth taking seriously....well, most of it
> anyway.......Pete
>
> Paul Hewitt wrote:
>
> >You should NEVER use anything but a certified welding hood for MIG or any
> >type of electric, or gas welding.  How much do you value your eye's?
> >
> >Ren & Stimpy
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "gladish" <[email protected]>
> >To: <[email protected]>
> >Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 2:59 PM
> >Subject: RE: [TheForge] Re: welding heat
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>>Can these glasses be used for MIG welding too?
> >>>
> >>>Didymium II Blue Polycarbonate Safety Spectacles
> >>>
> >>>Thanks
> >>>Mark
> >>>
> >>>
> >>I hope that more knowledgeable welders than I reply to this, but I think
> >>that these spectacles are only a shade 3-5.
> >>That should give great protection for forge or gas welding ( I use a
#3),
> >>but arc welding requires a 10 or better.
> >>Andy G.
> >>
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