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Posted by JTMcC on December 10, 2007, 8:40 pm
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>I thought pancake hoods were just simple little home made welding hoods.
>
> I built one for myself a few years back:
> http://www.joeswelding.biz/photos/JP000387.jpg (no top)
> http://www.joeswelding.biz/photos/JP000401.jpg (incomplete top)
> http://www.joeswelding.biz/photos/JP000411.jpg (finished balsa)
> http://www.joeswelding.biz/photos/JP000412.jpg (primered)
> http://www.joeswelding.biz/photos/JP000413.jpg (painted)
> http://www.joeswelding.biz/photos/JP000418.jpg (front view)
> http://www.joeswelding.biz/photos/JP000419.jpg (side view)
> http://www.joeswelding.biz/photos/JP000488.jpg (in use)
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> I used it for about 15 years, and there was nothing like it! It was light
> weight, let in a helluva lot of light, and cooler than anything else I'd
> ever used.
>
> I always thought it would have been nice to have found someone that sold
> parts for building a hood. The hardest part of my pancake hood was getting
> the small detail pieces like a groove for the lenses to slide in and the
> mounting pieces for the headgear.
>
They've been available commercialy since just after WWII.
JTMcC.
> "Ernie Leimkuhler" wrote
>>
>>> Welding masks is a thread already.
>>>
>>> Who's seen the old pancake masks? I knew some old pipeliners who swore
>>> by
>>> them and wouldn't wear anything but.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>
>> Somebody was selling them on eBay a while back.
>> It was the first time I had ever seen such a beast.
>>
>> I think they are pretty restricted to the pipeline trade.
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>
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