[TheForge] When is a shield not a mask?

[Woolley]

Greetings,

I just can't imagine stick welding without a filter lens of some sort. I'm 
not a doctor obviously but having flashed myself enough times to be overly 
cautious as a rule, I can't buy that these people wouldn't do irreparable 
harm to their eyes.  Without a shield maybe, I've burned enough skin to 
acknowledge that.

Regards,
Bill Woolley

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David E. Smucker" <davesmucker at hotmail.com>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] When is a shield not a mask?


> Not in shipyards but in manufacturing plants in China I have see welders 
> using stick weld without a shield.  It is one of the first things we had 
> to do when taking over a foil mill was to stop the maintanence welding 
> without a shield.  On one trip over I took 400 safety glasses with me.  We 
> could buy them cheaper here (made in Italy) and take them to China that we 
> could find they at the time in China.  This was about 1994 or so.  Things 
> have changed a lot in 12 years.
>
> Dave
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Woolley" <wjec at verizon.net>
> To: <artgawk at thegrid.net>; "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 9:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] When is a shield not a mask?
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>
>> No way.
>>
>>
>>>A friend who spent some years in asia said that in some of the shipyards 
>>>he'd seen career welders who worked without eye protection.
>>>  Their children led them to work every morning, put them in position, 
>>> handed them the stinger and as soon as the arc was struck...they could 
>>> see again...'till quitting time....pf
>>
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