Welding Tips and Tricks

So, I was under a pontoon boat yesterday. Not a lot of room. My helmet kept hitting on the underside of the boat while I was trying to fix a crack on the top of the 'toon. It got me thinking...

Is there a mask that may take the lense out of a helmet? I could then wear a leather cap or bandana or something. When I was practicing for the beads I could see but when I put the helmet on it put my head too low and I could not view the area.

There is heaps of products like this. Chrome Leather welding helmets would be the most basic, right up to sevore weld goggles.

http://www.weldingandwelder.com/product ... ask-p-3184

Depending on budget-miller weld mask.

You can also get darker shade lenses for the goggles used for brazing or torch cutting.
https://www.amazon.com/KwikSafety-Weldi ... gles&psc=1

Farmwelding wrote:Depending on budget-miller weld mask.

Some people say they fog up, but I'd try them if I needed them.

MinnesotaDave wrote:

Farmwelding wrote:Depending on budget-miller weld mask.

Some people say they fog up, but I'd try them if I needed them.

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This is what my wife wears in the morning when she comes in the bathroom after I have been in there for awhile.

MinnesotaDave wrote:

Farmwelding wrote:Depending on budget-miller weld mask.

Some people say they fog up, but I'd try them if I needed them.

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I have a pair, used them a dozen or so times, work good but if you are a heavy breather or doing some harder type work where you are in the heat, cutting, grinding, lifting, etc. And you get winded, etc. they will fog up, for calmer, soothing type welding they are great. I only REALLY use them when I need to, confined spaces or really short , like 1 weld type jobs, I will bring them because its easier than lugging the helmet around.

They come with antifog lens covers, I put em on and could barely see so I took them back off.

I like it so far. The hood is way to tight for a normal head. Maybe I just have a large head.

I've used a number 10 or 11 shade in a set of cutting torch goggles when repairing a loader frame before just don't learn the hard way like I did cover your face and head I used two painting head covers they are made of thin cotton and worked well I spent a three days inside that loader frame it was 3 inch plate welded to a 5x8 solid and some 2 inch plate.

DrDogwood wrote:I've used a number 10 or 11 shade in a set of cutting torch goggles when repairing a loader frame before just don't learn the hard way like I did cover your face and head I used two painting head covers they are made of thin cotton and worked well I spent a three days inside that loader frame it was 3 inch plate welded to a 5x8 solid and some 2 inch plate.

I have a buddy that wears a welding-specific balaclava for this. I just slather my face and all other exposed skin in SPF 45 or better.

Steve

Otto Nobedder wrote:

DrDogwood wrote:I've used a number 10 or 11 shade in a set of cutting torch goggles when repairing a loader frame before just don't learn the hard way like I did cover your face and head I used two painting head covers they are made of thin cotton and worked well I spent a three days inside that loader frame it was 3 inch plate welded to a 5x8 solid and some 2 inch plate.

I have a buddy that wears a welding-specific balaclava for this. I just slather my face and all other exposed skin in SPF 45 or better.

Steve

And that keeps you protected? So if i wore my fancy schmancy goggles without the smurf wrap and used suncreen instead, I would be all good?

Olivero wrote:

Otto Nobedder wrote:

DrDogwood wrote:I've used a number 10 or 11 shade in a set of cutting torch goggles when repairing a loader frame before just don't learn the hard way like I did cover your face and head I used two painting head covers they are made of thin cotton and worked well I spent a three days inside that loader frame it was 3 inch plate welded to a 5x8 solid and some 2 inch plate.

I have a buddy that wears a welding-specific balaclava for this. I just slather my face and all other exposed skin in SPF 45 or better.

Steve

And that keeps you protected? So if i wore my fancy schmancy goggles without the smurf wrap and used suncreen instead, I would be all good?

To a point-I wouldnt do it all the time. Steve has a job that requires extensive weird posistions and welding so he needs to do this at times. Welding in an 8inch hole to fix a crack for instance- fit a helmet in there.

Yeah, naturally. I bought it so I could use it for those tougher space jobs, or the small jobs that I can't bother lugging my helmet around.

Seems any time I use my hood, I damage the paint job

"I have a buddy that wears a welding-specific balaclava for this. I just slather my face and all other exposed skin in SPF 45 or better.

Steve"

If the pay is right($),one does whatever it takes and don't forget the scalp with thin or no hair. Duct tape in some areas.

I use sunblock as "liquid sleeves" quite often. Only for my face, neck, and ears in the rare case I can't fit my hood in the space, but when TIG welding, I use sunblock in place of sleeves. I've done this for years. You can get sunblock up to SPF100 or something like that, but SPF 45 applied twice a day has saved me from flash-burn for many years.

Do I recommend it as daily practice? No. Your safety people will frown. I don't need it all day every day, and I don't have "safety people", so I do it as needed.

SPF does nothing for MIG spatter...

Steve

Otto Nobedder wrote:SPF does nothing for MIG spatter...

Steve

Is that the voice of experience

LtBadd wrote:

Otto Nobedder wrote:SPF does nothing for MIG spatter...

Steve

Is that the voice of experience

I can attest to it

And also I have used numerous welding jackets that a good bit of spatter has gone through. Burns that smelled like mig welding for probably eight hours. That took me awhile to figure out why in the middle of AP calculus I was smelling welding-just my arm

Farmwelding wrote:

LtBadd wrote:

Otto Nobedder wrote:SPF does nothing for MIG spatter...

Steve

Is that the voice of experience

I can attest to it

And also I have used numerous welding jackets that a good bit of spatter has gone through. Burns that smelled like mig welding for probably eight hours. That took me awhile to figure out why in the middle of AP calculus I was smelling welding-just my arm

I smell like pork when I'm on fire

MMMmmmm.

Somone's grilling!

Oh, shit, that's me!

Steve

My boss a former sheetmetal worker and welder for 20 years was welding an 8" piece of hydronic pipe for our building, middle of the night on his side, overhead. He's laying on a blanket, god knows why.

Hey Oliver!

What?!

Why does it smell like somethings burning?

I don't know, your welding not me.

Oliver!

WHAT?!

Am i on fire?

No Sam. But the blanket is