I have somewhat a start on my summer farmers tan. Looks kinda funny only being on my face front and not on the sides. I need to learn to turn my head first right and then left when squint stitch welding. I have my cart walker up on wheels but still do as much going backwards as forward or so it seems. My drawing looked good but when welded up I could see I would get more us with changes. I hope to get the seat frame in place tonight and then I will take a picture. Only being able to work at it about an hour at a time makes it go slow.
- Thread starter Dick L
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rustyfarmall
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I've got an auto-darkening helmet. Still easier to just squint for those little jobs.
Stan in Oly, WA
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Lots of potentially harmful things are easier. Any safety risk should be a matter of urgent necessity, not a common shortcut. Be careful.
Stan
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Stan in Oly, WA
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You might be able to find fixed shade welding goggles with flip-up lenses. The UV radiation from the welding arc definitely contributes to the cumulative damage to skin cells that ultimately increases your risk of skin cancer by a significant amount. Maybe that's not a concern, or maybe you can find ways to cover the skin on your face in ways that won't cause your lenses to fog up.
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rustyfarmall
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(quoted from post at 10:54:59 02/10/15) I have two auto dark hoods. They would work real good out in an unheated place if I could work without breathing.^D
I hear you. If the job warranted it, I'd fire up the torpedo heater.
Doc took one of those things off my head a few years ago. Dixie said in front of the Doctor that she had told me I needed to needed to wear lotion for protection. Doc told her that the skin damage was from Probly 50 years earlier. At almost 77 I most likely don't have another 50 years for cancer from skin damage done now to develop.
When I was in my 20's I welded several summers in a tee shirt. If it was warm inside I would do the same. Arms were like leather. I guess what I didn't know could happen did not to hurt me all that much. I wouldn't do it now. I just have a slight color on my face this time not a burn.
When I was in my 20's I welded several summers in a tee shirt. If it was warm inside I would do the same. Arms were like leather. I guess what I didn't know could happen did not to hurt me all that much. I wouldn't do it now. I just have a slight color on my face this time not a burn.
Stan in Oly, WA
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I'm a few years younger than you (69 next month), but I know what you mean about dangers that take time to hurt you. Every year there are more things that I figure I won't live long enough for them to kill me. Still, you've got to be careful. Not everything just kills you, some things drive you into bankruptcy first.
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Chris Jones
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Back in the summer I had several welding repairs to make at one time. That evening when I went to take a shower I saw my chest in the mirror and you could see the sun, er, welding tan on my chest! with a distinct lighter stripe up the middle where the shirt overlapped in front and thus was thicker.
I did something similar recently, and had the idea of making something that'd give you the best of both worlds -
A piece of sheetmetal with a welding glass window epoxied in - mounted on a flexible moveable stand.
You could put it between you and the work - make it small enough to work around and look around it but large enough to at least shade your face. You could just kind of duck behind it and look though the glass while welding - and you wouldn't be breathing all over it like being in a helmet.
I of course never made it to try it out, who's got that kid of time.
But it would be better than damaging your skin, skin cancer's not something to mess with. My brother just had to have a big chunk of his nose cut off, and he's lucky they caught it early.
A piece of sheetmetal with a welding glass window epoxied in - mounted on a flexible moveable stand.
You could put it between you and the work - make it small enough to work around and look around it but large enough to at least shade your face. You could just kind of duck behind it and look though the glass while welding - and you wouldn't be breathing all over it like being in a helmet.
I of course never made it to try it out, who's got that kid of time.
But it would be better than damaging your skin, skin cancer's not something to mess with. My brother just had to have a big chunk of his nose cut off, and he's lucky they caught it early.
T in NE
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- Cambridge, Nebraska
Been so warm here I got a real good start on mine.
ObsoElitist
Member
I got tired of junk and bought a Jackson EQC helmet with the blower/filter. No more fog! That was money well spent. You can make the setup cheaply with a small computer fan and plastic ducts.
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