[TheForge] autodarkening helmet and other thoughts

[Larry Brown]

Does the shied become a helmet when you whack your self in the face with 
the stinger  trying to un stick a rod? Therefore protecting you from yourself
Had to ask...
Larry Brown


At 12:33 AM 3/7/2009 -0600, you wrote:
>I am glad that people are learning to weld well.
>I am on what is perhaps a one man crusade, but I will go with it anyway.
>The pricey thing that you wear over your face to protect your face and
>eyes from all of the nasty
>stuff that happens as a result of good welding, is a "shield" rather
>than a "helmet".
>A "shield" by it's very name and nature, does just that. It "shields"
>one from harmful rays and heat etc.
>A "helmet" goes over one's head to protect it from falling stuff and
>from bumping into things.
>I realize that even the folks that make the product have begun to call
>it a "helmet" but
>a helmet it is not. A lot like "duck tape" rather than "duct tape" it
>is a misnomer.
>So please, if not for the sake of proper English then for respect of
>the tens of thousands of welders
>that have gone before you, call it a "shield".
>
>climbing down from my soap box,
>dave mudge