Welding without eye protection!

[TurtleDude]

A couple of years ago I was doing international travel at work, we were in South America conducting repairs on a fleet of vehicles. We needed to weld up some cracks in the chassis of a pickup and our bodyguard had contacts at a local armoured car factory. After an hour of poor translating and some googling of pictures we finally got a mig set, but no helmet - the entire factory was welding with closed eyes.

We hadn't expected to be welding so had no appropriate ppe. I ended up making the repair in shorts and t shirt, slathered in factor 25 sun cream and wearing my sunglasses. The earth clamp was two feet of bared off copper strands wrapped around a convenient crossmember

Sounds pretty hardcore dude!

Probably a horrendous experience at the time, but makes a great pub story years later!

 

[normspanners]

just found thjese they are virtually identical to the ones I made
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Solar-Aut...ing-Goggles-/351272858711?hash=item51c97e7457

Well I ordered a set of these for £8.70 inc postage! from hongkong, basically just to have a look, and they arrived today, and seem to work fine, not the most robust thing, the piece that hold the lens retaining spring looks a little flimsy, but they are nice and light to wear and with a nomex balaclava, will do when in tight spaces and for the money, they will do to keep in the car, as they take no space, because they are grinding goggles as well, they will do fine for use when on a rally.

 

[TurtleDude]

Well I ordered a set of these for £8.70 inc postage! from hongkong, basically just to have a look, and they arrived today, and seem to work fine, not the most robust thing, the piece that hold the lens retaining spring looks a little flimsy, but they are nice and light to wear and with a nomex balaclava, will do when in tight spaces and for the money, they will do to keep in the car, as they take no space, because they are grinding goggles as well, they will do fine for use when on a rally.

Wicked!

I love how we were all tut tutting and you just thought 'sod it' and bought a pair....

Best of all, they work and have a usefullness in your welding setup.

Back of thee nay-sayers!

 

[normspanners]

Used the goggles again yesterday remaking an exhaust silencer for a pump and had to do some tacking up inside the pump canopy they worked fine.
No space for me, the exhaust, and a bucket so the goggles came out.