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Thats why i use 3 pairs of gas station sunglasses

I’m currently working on this small tip. TRUST ME it’s worth the time to learn this 🙏

I just have an Auto Darkening hood. If I'm welding in a dark area I duct tape a couple small flashlights onto the sides or top of my hood.

I remember welding class 😂 you know they have nothing better to teach, when they start turning into a critique

Auto-darkening hoods are cool… till it runs out of battery and you get flashed and now you can’t see diddly squat for 2 minutes 😂😂

I just use my favorite. Wendy's carbon fiber pancake with a Lincoln Electric variable shade 2x4 auto darkening lens. No flippy floppy at all, no need to raise it.

"crazy hand flipping"

I honestly thoight dude was gonna tell everybody headbang the hood into place and cause serious damage after years of doing it but no this is actually solid advice

I've got a $40 hood... it's been dropped from 200 ft, and the only thing that happened was I needed a new clear cover lens... Auto hoods are for scrubs

Passive is what way to go for Mig and Tig. Stick on the other hand, needs an auto darkening

U should learn with a fixed shade imo. Learn the hard way so later on its that much easier.

Then they fall all day long while your working. Been a Boilermaker for 30 years and that idea is out the window first day you try it guaranteed.

learn to weld w/o speed lenses, sometimes you have to do welds in places where speed lenses wont work.

As a auto dark welder I’d still miss the whole area I need to preform the welder in

Everybody has a preference 😂

Solar Auto Dark with battery back-up😊

lmaoo i use to do this before i had an autodarking and let me say the amount of times i busted my lip is unreal😂

Either use an auto darkening helmet or glide your electrode by the flux to the edge along the spot of where to intend to start in a sliding motion back.

Learned new knowledge

Or just learn to weld with one hand. I prefer fixed shade helmets. Always left hand on helmet and right on the stinger and just pull it down. No neck problems or being frustrated when it falls down when you don't want it

Just drag the rod until you find the bevel lol

Yeah everyone welding positioning or hands how they weld is different helmet setting anything all welders is different

How to tell me you've never welded in the pipe rack before while twisted in-between every dang thing up there without saying it

That's old school welding

It’s better to learn this way before you buy an auto darkening hood that way if your auto helmet dies you’re not completely fucked trying to figure it out the first time.

I had to get the auto lol

Auto darkening all the way man

Stick your rod, let the lincoln idle up, pull your pancake down, and start welding.

Where's my mechanical mask button activated shield

Okay good job that's the way you got to do it she get caught up in the words but that ain't shitt😊

Why not just wear an auto-darkening one?

Top chopped sugar ftw

This doesn't apply to auto dark helmets

I've always used an auto darking helmets but, this is good to know for the people that don't have common sense, he doesn't look comfortable either🤷‍♂️

The same with picking your nose.

All this learning and skill just to make an average of $25/hr…

Or you could just use an auto darkening lense?

or you just buy a speedglass helmet which is on&off, and just put that helmet down and start welding, and it just auto blacks the moment you start. how come America, USA, The one place you think of when you think steel and welding, have helmets from 1950=?

Thot you was going to pop pop with the dano's

Or hear me out.... We have technology.... Auto darkening avoids all this nonsense

“ that why i use auto darkening” youve just told me your in school or brand new to welding 😂😂😂😂

Get good

😂

Funny way of saying auto darkner

What a joke

Listen to this man this will save you a lot of neck damage 25 years later down

Used them when I was a kid. Didn’t really do much welding. Now I’m older and want to make stuff all the time I use an auto helmet. Never looked back.

Dark lenses are so cool! it took forever to type this on my flip phone

Just got one of those auto tinting hoods

it always falls past where I need it, and do it for 30+years you end up with neck surgeries, hand flipping my neck is fine and my hands are fine, plus auto lenses eliminated all that, and PANCAKE HOOD

You always have to hand feed a weldor. I really mean to the tiniest detail you have to explain it all.

Remember kids . Can’t actually walk around and work with a loose hood. Never listen to a pipe fairy 🧚‍♀️

That'd why I use a auto darkening hood

I prefer the head nod bc mine is set just right for it but to each their own ig

I have to wear glasses because when I was in school I took a welding class and I couldn't see anything out the damn mask and I made it arc a few times with the mask up and that's all it took. glasses forever now lol

Paying 20k to weld school and uses a dollar hood.

Is there somekinda issue with autodark. Im new to welding. I got mine set where i damn near never need to bring it up.

He sounds like the danos seasoning guy

Or you could use a helmet from the 21th century 😂

Or you could join the 20th century and get a auto helmet lol like bruh how do you guys still rock those 🤦🏼‍♂️ I can see in some cases where the weld is in a tight space and the sensor won’t pick up arc. But 95% of the time auto shader helmets are the shit.

my auto darkening for the win wit shade and sensitivity settings

I wanna weld but it doesnt pay

Correct

Crazy handflipping 😂😂😂

Loose hoods aren't good in women, and they're not good in welding. You should be able to have your hood stay in position while moving. Unless, of course, you're like 5% of welders who are blessed to weld in a single position while standing. Lol. As for the 90% of us who move, we keep that shit snug, flick your neck/ head/ hood when ready, and get to staring at the blue dot to start melting metal. Or for the 5% of us in really stupid positions (KINDA LIKE THE ONES WE PUT YOUR MOMMA IN)....We go in with hands on position, hood down, and become one with the weld. IE, you see the arc, adjust if you need to, and get to staring at that blue dot while melting metal. Sooooo ya, YO MOMMA HAS A LOOSE HOOD.

Thanks Cap'n Obvious. Shakes from the booze the night before.. 😢

Auto dark lens is key now a days

Oof. Id hate to see Shakey Mcgees welds😂😂😂😂😂. Talking about losing position when he could barely stay in position

What’s the difference when…tho we have AutoDarkening? I usually just keep my hood on. I’ll lift if I need to see a bit more clearly on my welds. But once I am comfortable. It’s on

Or you can place your rod on the pipe about 1/4” from the end of the rod. Keep tension on the welding rod touching the pipe. Put your hood down however you prefer and simply slide your welding rod off the pipe really slow until the end of the rod ignites at the desired starting point. You’ll never get arc marks on the pipe or any material you are welding. With practice your welding will look sharper then ever. This little trick saves you lots of bs from the QC.

yeah...they dont mention neck strain later on down the road...his ready to fall makes you keep you neck kinked back ..ignore ths idjit

I used a Huntsman large view vulcanized fiber hood for many years, and got good at the flip game. Most auto darkening filters were small, and I prefer a large view. Now that I'm not welding as often, I use a large view auto darkening hood, just close my eyes when starting so I don't get hit with the initial flash

As an engineer that does some welding and fabrication can somebody tell me why American welders don’t use auto darkening visors. There must be a reason 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

I used to use them nearly 30 years ago. Now I will use the auto darkening one.

yeah id rather not have my helmet fall in my face every 5 seconds when im trying to work on something. ill just stick with my super stiff autodark that only moves when i pull it down with my hand... ill never understand how anyone can work with their helmet constantly falling in their face. and if you crank the knob to tighten it it just loosens up and slowly falls infront of your eyes soon as you look down

That's a little too loose for me personally. I prefer at least a little nod, and not having to cock my head back so my hood doesn't drop.

Good advice and keep your neck strong also that hunch position remember to keep stretching your shoulders to keep a strong posture so you don’t end up like the hunch back of Notre Dame in your later years even later 20 year old also those exhaust helmets are good but heavier so please keep that in mind take care have fun cheers

why people mess around with these old passive helmets makes now sense - have one on the shelf for or shtf but why torture yourself

Also be on time and don’t stay up late drinking with the rest of the clowns. Your welding on a pipeline not ms. Johnson’s front gate.

I find often during positional welds the auto shield will deactivate and then you are welding with cheep sunglasses! Not cool passive lenses never let you down!

How to make a simple task seem like rocket science

Thats crapy Equipment ist Amerika this Low ?

you become a skilled experinced welder. but one day u forgot to put your helmet on ,then you get all ready to strike a ark , then you nodd your head and you try strike an ark , then you relize you forgot the ground. but you have to tack a glance to see if any one elese was watching , so yes make you feel weird

If i keep beer on my rig i dont shake as much

i get that its proper technique but i bet half the guys in there feel like a dwarf blacksmith when they do that hand shit, and i dont blame them lol

I prefer the automatic version on

Or you can act like you’re not in the 1800s and use an auto darkening. 🤦🏼‍♂️

Do yourself a favor and get the voice activated Ironman helmet 😉

It is 2023 Get a fucking auto Dark helmet !!!!!!

The immigrant I hire just use sunglasses and he built most things in my factory and home

Use an auto darkening hood and you wouldn’t have to worry about it 🤷🏽‍♂️

When the stopper breaks use your shoulder, non stinger hand obviously 😂

Starting to act like a pipefitter if you want to truly be the best local 290 pipefitters steam fitters

Been messing with mine for 30plus years, still can't get it right. 😡

Try drinking a lil less the night before; it’ll stop some of that hand shakin the morning after.

Auto dark lens every time

Fr tho i do the hand slap cause if i lift my head up amd that helmet drops my anger goes up so when it repeats 20 times in 1 hour im bout read to smash the hood

pipeline hood Fiber metal with the rubber band on the back cut it to fit body in your chest area ask a broiler pipe welder and see the shape of there hoods

Nope i haven't had an issue but i would love to se you run a bead before you run those gums