View Poll Results: Have you experienced it?
Never had welder's flash, but felt the need to vote, and furthermore I love jiggling titties.
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Long term eye damage from welder's flash?
#21
Re: Long term eye damage from welder's flash?
I caught a flash pretty bad from my mig. I flipped up my helmet, went to lay the gun down and the trigger hit something and got stuck. I was seeing spots for a couple days after, and since then sunlight hurts my eyes on bright sunny days. Driving at night is almost just as bad with car's headlights.
#22
Re: Long term eye damage from welder's flash?
I burn my cheeks quite often while tigging. I like my helmet in low shade. Face has probably peeled 2-3 time completely. Also when learning on a stick back when I was 15 or so I couldn't see (litterally blind/blur vision past 18",went to the hospital and all). Is my vison worse? Probably. Have a Learned. Yes, no longer tack weld with no mask and ----.
#24
Re: Long term eye damage from welder's flash?
i work in a steel fab shop. we use MIG machines in the bulk. and ive had flashburn a few times. not to mention numerous sunburns on my face. being a fitter SUX. the sand in the eyes feling is all too familiar.
#25
Re: Long term eye damage from welder's flash?
Originally Posted by Dmc1
LOL Mista Bone everybody from your generation has a story about being electicuted to near death. What were you guys doing back then "Hey lets like get wasted and like run a new three phase to the welder heheheheh!!!"
#26
Re: Long term eye damage from welder's flash?
Originally Posted by CspecRun
I know one time I did get a piece of rust embedded in my right eyeball, and it was like you guys are talking about, you couldn't go out in the sun 4 ---- with your eyes open, and my eye got sooo red, it was extremely unpleasant/uncomfortable,...then I went to the eye doctor and the put this little drill on my eyeball, WILD ----, and gave my eye drops that filled my mouth with the same taste as the drainage from cocaine(you know when it runs down they back of your throat)...acetate i-drops ftw...
Though I never got welder's flash but I get alot of spots kinda like orbs you see in ghost pictures.
#29
Re: Long term eye damage from welder's flash?
I've had my eyelid burned by silicon bubbles popping on the face of some welds at school twice. (wasn't even chipping either off at the time.) Coincidentally I now have one set of saftey glasses set aside in my primary welding helmet solely for wearing when I weld. No grinding, etc that would scratch them up.
I've been flashed afew times by dumbasses not paying attention to what they were doing, acouple of times bad enough to not see for afew minutes, or hurting afew minutes in bright light afterwards. (Probably why osha says you should always wear your lens's with side shields when walking around someplace with welding/cutting.)
The worst welding related I've had so far was at home. I haev some nice tillman gloves I use just at home to tig with. Well I decided I wanted to tig in my cool shades (no facemask), in a sleeveless shirt. I was perfectly fine (even had some 30 sunscreen on since it was a sunny day) welding some .065 stainless exhaust pipe into a collector. A neighboor walked up & asked me if I could weld afew piecies of 3/8" angle iron up for him.
Not 45 seconds into welding that ---- @ 200 amps my face, arms, and left hand felt like they were on fire. My face & left arm blistered over & peeled over that weekend, it was aweful. I'm not the kind of person that sunburns either, I just go straight to tan...
Moral of the story, welding nekkid is stupid. There's a BIG differance in 40-80 amps for small ---- VS real amperage...
So wear your long sleeve blue jean shirts, pants (NO TATTERED CLOTHES), and always use gloves. Even in your filler hand...
Everyone on here oughta have hearing protection.
and don't take the god damned gaurds off your saws & grinders. Jesus ------- christ some kids are god damned retardid...
Kids nobody will take care of your saftey for you. It is your own responcibility to watch your own ***. Use working saftey gear...
I've been flashed afew times by dumbasses not paying attention to what they were doing, acouple of times bad enough to not see for afew minutes, or hurting afew minutes in bright light afterwards. (Probably why osha says you should always wear your lens's with side shields when walking around someplace with welding/cutting.)
The worst welding related I've had so far was at home. I haev some nice tillman gloves I use just at home to tig with. Well I decided I wanted to tig in my cool shades (no facemask), in a sleeveless shirt. I was perfectly fine (even had some 30 sunscreen on since it was a sunny day) welding some .065 stainless exhaust pipe into a collector. A neighboor walked up & asked me if I could weld afew piecies of 3/8" angle iron up for him.
Not 45 seconds into welding that ---- @ 200 amps my face, arms, and left hand felt like they were on fire. My face & left arm blistered over & peeled over that weekend, it was aweful. I'm not the kind of person that sunburns either, I just go straight to tan...
Moral of the story, welding nekkid is stupid. There's a BIG differance in 40-80 amps for small ---- VS real amperage...
So wear your long sleeve blue jean shirts, pants (NO TATTERED CLOTHES), and always use gloves. Even in your filler hand...
Everyone on here oughta have hearing protection.
and don't take the god damned gaurds off your saws & grinders. Jesus ------- christ some kids are god damned retardid...
Kids nobody will take care of your saftey for you. It is your own responcibility to watch your own ***. Use working saftey gear...
#30
Re: Long term eye damage from welder's flash?
and have good venitaltion & filtration where needed. filtration is alot more needed than people think too, especially in woodworking, and any type of sanding/blasting(wood/metal/plastic).