Soundguy
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( take the time to put on long sleeves and long pants when I was doing some impromptu welding fixes. I got such a bad welders-burn one time that it blistered up all over my legs )</font>
I second that.
I was getting some welding in at work on our lincoln 225 ac/dc rig. I was building a center ramp for my JD-B for trailering it. The metal was free from the scrap pile, so i ran out choped it up and welded it during my lunch hour... in shorts. Boy that machine could really glue some metal together. 3/8 angle iron and flats and some 1/8 6011 rod.
In less than an *** I had chopped and glued a great ramp together.. and turned my legs into hotdogs. I put aloe and cream on them for a week. i think they peeled 3 times and the pink color took over a week to go away... boy did I feel dumb.
I've just got a little 70 amp buzzbox at home to play with the thin stuff, but always 'dress' up for it.. including leg chaps which cover the tops of the shoes, full arm chaps.. high gauntlet cloves, and a nic roomy helmet and welders beany.
Let me emphasize the shoe coverings... tennis shoes will still let some dripping slap or splatter find its way in!
Soundguy
I second that.
I was getting some welding in at work on our lincoln 225 ac/dc rig. I was building a center ramp for my JD-B for trailering it. The metal was free from the scrap pile, so i ran out choped it up and welded it during my lunch hour... in shorts. Boy that machine could really glue some metal together. 3/8 angle iron and flats and some 1/8 6011 rod.
In less than an *** I had chopped and glued a great ramp together.. and turned my legs into hotdogs. I put aloe and cream on them for a week. i think they peeled 3 times and the pink color took over a week to go away... boy did I feel dumb.
I've just got a little 70 amp buzzbox at home to play with the thin stuff, but always 'dress' up for it.. including leg chaps which cover the tops of the shoes, full arm chaps.. high gauntlet cloves, and a nic roomy helmet and welders beany.
Let me emphasize the shoe coverings... tennis shoes will still let some dripping slap or splatter find its way in!
Soundguy