OT - i might be the world's worst welder, but...

HFJ · Aug 21, 2017

... the eclipse is well underway here, and i'm happy to have a welding mask. anyone else watching?

R Geiger · Aug 21, 2017

(quoted from post at 11:37:53 08/21/17) ... the eclipse is well underway here, and i'm happy to have a welding mask. anyone else watching?

It was cool, we had about 99% here, The temperature really fell. Never got dark but sort of a weird twilight.

Tom Bowman · Aug 21, 2017

(quoted from post at 13:37:53 08/21/17) ... the eclipse is well underway here, and i'm happy to have a welding mask. anyone else watching?

Just finished watching totality in Missouri - amazing!

(And, HFJ, by the way: as long as I am alive, you will NOT be the world's worst welder!)

carlntexas · Aug 21, 2017

(quoted from post at 12:37:53 08/21/17) ... the eclipse is well underway here, and i'm happy to have a welding mask. anyone else watching?

sed my welding helmet also not a big deal here like a partly cloudy day.

Jock(OR) · Aug 21, 2017

We had full dark and 300+ people camped in our hay field. Very unique experience!

Ncorrigible · Aug 21, 2017

My wife and I both wore sunglasses while watching through my welding mask. We had 85% coverage and it is our second partial.
This one was way better than the last partial.
As for welding... I have been advised to find an old car hood and get a feel for my Hobart both as MIG and flux core wire.
I feel like I must have something like that here on this 1863 homestead - I just have not found it yet. I have a really
good u-beam, but it would not burn through as easy and I may need it some day - just like folks who lived here a hundred
years before me might have needed it someday.

Ed S. · Aug 21, 2017

92% here in the Middle West, we used a #10 mask + gas welding glasses (#5?), which worked great. Couldn't get any good photos of it, though!

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Royse · Aug 21, 2017

We stepped outside at work today to see what was going on.
Too cloudy to see much here.
Seems like I had a similar experience in '79.
But that was a long time ago for a young man like me!

3000 FPS · Aug 21, 2017

Yep me and the wife shared my welding helmet. I had it on the darkest setting.

tractorguy2 · Aug 21, 2017

I used my welding helmet and watched. 70 miles away were my brother is it got completely dark. Here it was like dusk. The temp
drop 7 degrees.

Kirk-NJ · Aug 22, 2017

My wife, daughter and granddaughter took turns using my welding
helmet. Partly cloudy here 71% partial, sometimes couldn't see it.
So while everyone looked up I got on the '41 9n and mowed the
lawn.

Kirk

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