[TheForge] Cheap Autodarkening Welding Helmet.

Wed Aug 13 15:59:00 2003

Yeah well.  I am only forty, but it seems every morning I wake up to 
find my body has yet another bill to pay for some dumb stunt  I pulled 
at twenty.  The worst bill right now is for running open pipes as a 
youth.  Next worse is is knee damage due to being too cheap to replace a 
kickstart clutch on bike.

Charles

R.C.Mundt wrote:

>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
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>>dann wrote:
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>>>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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