[TheForge] Cheap Autodarkening Welding Helmet.

Fri Aug 15 02:10:02 2003

I gotta laugh at this.  MIG's are so easy to use, that anyone who has spent
enough hours behind them can run them with eye's closed literally.  I do it
all the time.  Only draw back is at the end of the day quick sticthing stuff
together so the rest of the help can weld it, the arcburn on the face and
eyelids sucks.  Sunblock i suppose would help....

----- Original Message -----
From: "R.C.Mundt" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Cheap Autodarkening Welding Helmet.

> 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
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 1:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Cheap Autodarkening Welding Helmet.
>
>
> > 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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