Chilling sunday with the kid

[NTwoO]

For some time now, my son has been wanting to watch me weld. He is well aware of the dangers of arc eyes. He did watch me once when he was young, but the spare mask for people watching was too clausterphobic for him. At first I had a card board beer tray with an 11 lens in it. This was not kid safe and I changed it to a card board box with a T shirt stapled to it. The one time he watched, he had the T-shirt with cardboard box. Seeing that it is a lazy sunday, I took some old pieces of leather that was hacked from a couch someone threw away and assembled a leather mask for him. The frame of a worn out pair of Jackson grinding goggles was used as a basis. Check the following photies...

This is the front of the mask. The bib is quite long.

Here you can see the jackson goggles glued in place and the strap running through the leather to help with the carrying of the weight.

The goggle setup.... The stitching is not flame proof. The glue used to glue the lens to the goggle is a polyurethane glue that works well with the goggles and the glass. It can handle 90 degrees. The lens is glued to the leather with silicone for high temperatures.

Yeah, I know! always looking good with specs on!

The rear comes almost all the way around on my head.

 

[rikrobson]

Kinda reminds me on Homer Simpson home how

 

[Wozzaaah]

This one Rik?

Great idea NTwoO, bet he'll love it!

 

[KennyC]

I'm glad you didn't use white leather

 

[Sid]

I'm glad you didn't use white leather

 

[rikrobson]

of this

LOL

 

[NTwoO]

 

[NTwoO]

He's chuffed to bits, btw. He helped with stitching the leather. I guess apart from the 1/8th italian blood of my wife, white leather for shoes and welding masks are kept to a minimum. That it had to be red... Well, the couches pitching up at the dump can not be ordered on colour. Nothing wrong with the ox blood look. It stains less if you cut yourself in the workshop.

 

[rikrobson]

He'll be wanting to sleep in it and wear it to school i'd imagine

 

[NTwoO]

Pity it is not a flip up mask... There is that joke about the kid with the welding mask... but it has too many words in it that'll get me banned from the forum...

 

[Chipper]

That's a good idea there... my lad (11) has done a little bit of welding, but the mask is a bit big and cumbersome for him... We might well rob this idea with an old mask lens Like the protection from flying hot bits too.

 

[chunkolini]

Nice one. How old is he?
I had my boy welding when he was about 6, he loved it for a while drove me mad 'dad dad dad can we go welding again'
I have a box with a few of his projects in it, he made a cool, ant out of a spanner.

Chunko'.

 

[NTwoO]

He's turning 5 in June (the age where any word can be alliterated until you get to fart or poo). Guess dad will be grinding tungstens if he starts tig welding at 6.

 

[J_K]

That looks like real science fiction computer game stuff.

If you could replace the 11 lens with a sunglasses tint, you could use it on Halloween and for fancy dress parties.

 

[pedrobedro]

Pity it is not a flip up mask... There is that joke about the kid with the welding mask... but it has too many words in it that'll get me banned from the forum...

Was he a real welder?

 

[NTwoO]

Hahah! You know the joke...

 

[FranV8]

Damn - I could really do with that leather for repairing the seats in my car...

 

[NTwoO]

If you're serious, I have a few pieces extra. If not, plenty couches arrive at your local municipal dump every weekend. Surely you must be able to find at least one leather one if you invest 2-3 weekends...