[TheForge] Cheap Autodarkening Welding Helmet.

Wed Aug 13 00:38:00 2003

I spent around 20 years working for construction companies, in the summers I
helped build streets and parking lots in the winter I worked in the shop
welding mostly.  One day one of the bosses went to pick some work a local
machine shop was doing for us.  When he walked in  the shop the owner was
using a mig welder w/ no eye protection, just squinting his eyes, he asked .
"Do you have rocks in your head?"  The owner of the machine shop replied
"hell I've been doing this for years".
Randy Mundt
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> I need to send the note to Discovery Channel, not the forge.  Watched
> three shows in a row where it was needed.  American Chopper, while two
> guys  tacked  items for probably a couple of hours with no helmet or eye
> protection of any kind other than squinting.  Followed by Monster House,
> where the welder was wearing a helmet, but was surrounded by un
> protected onlookers, and finally Monster Garage where one of the team
> was doing overhead welding with no helmet.
>
> Charles
>
> dann wrote:
>
> > I thought ( and still think)  that $130 was cheap compared to the cost
> > of a pair regular or  bifocal glasses, and considering how many times
> > over the years that  I welded little stuff  WITHOUT my helmet because
> > of the hassle / fighting with my standard  "nod" helmet.
> >
> > Dann Johnson
> >
> >
> >
>
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