[AT] Arc Welding ?

[Robinson]

At 06:14 PM 11/10/04, you wrote:
>Hi Robert!  I'm a long ways from being a pro welder, but I do a lot of 
>"farmer" welding (not pretty sometimes but never a failed weld).  I've 
>used a friend's welding helmet that had a regular shade lens in addition 
>to a magnifying lens.  I didn't like it at all.  I just wear my $1.00 
>reading glasses under the helmet and see good.   What really helps is a 
>500 watt halogen work light overhead.    John
>




         I don't have much trouble seeing well enough, "yet" but I have 
noticed that many of the new welding rods that I buy shake a lot worse than 
the old ones I bought years ago did. I would love to have one of those self 
darkening helmets but probably not this year.

"farmer"

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Francis Robinson
Central Indiana, USA
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