[AT] Welding Advice

Gunnells, Bradley R brad-gunnells at uiowa.edu
Mon Feb 9 12:17:39 PST 2015


Ralph, I thought all welding helmets came standard with duct tape. Seems all the ones I’ve had or used always had some.  :-)

Brad


> On Feb 9, 2015, at 1:37 PM, Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net> wrote:
> 
> On 2/9/2015 1:01 PM, Bo Hinch wrote:
>> I learned early in life to stick weld . After about 59 years of that , I
>> bought a mig with a auto darkening hood and have never looked back . Tought
>> my son to weld when he was 13 ( mig ) and it wasn`t long he started stick
>> welding . That is not what we do for a living but is very enjoyable . In my
>> opinion , the auto darkening hood made a big difference in the way i weld
>> and it help  my son even more .
>> Bo Hinch      in S/w Louisiana
> Those auto darkening helmets are really interesting to me. I still use 
> the original flip front
> helmet that we got with the welder from Smith Roles back in 1973. 
> Between the pitted
> lens and headband held together with duct tape it is well ready for 
> replacement.
> If the auto dark helmets work as good as everybody says I think I will 
> see quite an
> improvement.
> 
> Ralph in Sask.
>> 
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