09-19-2012, 02:02 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-19-2012, 05:50 AM by Rickabilly.)
Hello all,
In my experience one of the issues that plagues many welders is the balance between being safe/comfortable and being able to see what they are doing, this also gets much worse as you get older.
Keeping clean lenses is a good start, for the old style ones wash them regularly with a little dish washing solution. for the modern electronic ones I use a cloth dampened in dish washing solution and water and finish off with a cloth dampened with water only,
A chalk line helps many people to keep to the right line, and they make and sell fluorescent chalk to use in conjunction with a lightly tinted orange lens that really makes the chalk line glow, Of course you use the orange lens on top of the normal green lens,
The most important thing to do is get the right lens to start with, and I recommend that anyone doing any electric welding should buy a half a dozen spare lenses;
1. at least a couple of spare clears,
2. at least three or four different shades,
3. if you wear glasses there are magnifying clears available as well, so I recommend you get a couple of these in various strengths, I don't need Glasses, but have used them on very close welding work and while it was a little disorientating the first time I lowered the flip visor, however they did give me an advantage, so would use them again in the same situation.
The magnifying lenses made a world of difference to my Dad's welding, which had degraded badly along with his eye sight, It was really sad to watch his welding degrade, but with the right gear he was able to do good work right up until he passed away.
If eyesight is the problem the first indicator is often regularly missing the join altogether, everyone does it from time to time, but when eyesight fails it becomes very common.
Regards
Rick
In my experience one of the issues that plagues many welders is the balance between being safe/comfortable and being able to see what they are doing, this also gets much worse as you get older.
Keeping clean lenses is a good start, for the old style ones wash them regularly with a little dish washing solution. for the modern electronic ones I use a cloth dampened in dish washing solution and water and finish off with a cloth dampened with water only,
A chalk line helps many people to keep to the right line, and they make and sell fluorescent chalk to use in conjunction with a lightly tinted orange lens that really makes the chalk line glow, Of course you use the orange lens on top of the normal green lens,
The most important thing to do is get the right lens to start with, and I recommend that anyone doing any electric welding should buy a half a dozen spare lenses;
1. at least a couple of spare clears,
2. at least three or four different shades,
3. if you wear glasses there are magnifying clears available as well, so I recommend you get a couple of these in various strengths, I don't need Glasses, but have used them on very close welding work and while it was a little disorientating the first time I lowered the flip visor, however they did give me an advantage, so would use them again in the same situation.
The magnifying lenses made a world of difference to my Dad's welding, which had degraded badly along with his eye sight, It was really sad to watch his welding degrade, but with the right gear he was able to do good work right up until he passed away.
If eyesight is the problem the first indicator is often regularly missing the join altogether, everyone does it from time to time, but when eyesight fails it becomes very common.
Regards
Rick
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