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Perfect safe homemade welding mask?
May 09, 2013
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A dopey bugger if this is genuine. You can get holes burnt in your retina without a proper mask. But then there was a box factory full of them in a previous link.
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harbor freight sells auto darkening ones so cheap why bother???
Chances are, this is in some third world country with no HF stores. OTOH, it may be from their R & D Department.
Any plastic will greatly reduce uv exposure, but it's obviously got to be dark enough, but why chance it.
Greg
Arc welders should be using a lens shade between 10 to 14. The sunglasses are probably a 3 shade. The shades don't block radiation the same across the spectrum (see chart).
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He's probably getting 1000x more radiation from far UV than he should and 20x more IR radiation than he should (comparing the transmittance of shades 3 vs 10) ALL the excess radiation (over what is recommended) is bad. Excessive IR alone can cause premature cataracts, etc.
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Hah. You just reminded me. I once saw an Arab electric welding by just shutting his eyes. He could apparently see the work through his eyelids. Morroco I think.
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