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Subject Author Date wow, that's tough! Grant Erwin 06-17-2008  Re: wow, that's tough! Gunner Asch 06-17-2008  Re: wow, that's tough! SteveB 06-18-2008
Posted by Grant Erwin on June 17, 2008, 8:08 pm Please log in for more thread options I've used an auto-darkening helmet since 1998. I left it (secured) at a jobsite and today I had to tack something together. I have an old helmet and tried welding the old way, with the chin wag to drop the helmet. After ten years of no practice, that was nearly impossible! I wound up tacking it together with my eyes shut. They were just teeny MIG tacks, doubt it will do anything bad. Grant Posted by Gunner Asch on June 17, 2008, 9:33 pm Please log in for more thread options On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:08:30 GMT, Grant Erwin >I've used an auto-darkening helmet since 1998. I left it (secured) at a jobsite >and today I had to tack something together. I have an old helmet and tried >welding the old way, with the chin wag to drop the helmet. After ten years of no >practice, that was nearly impossible! I wound up tacking it together with my >eyes shut. They were just teeny MIG tacks, doubt it will do anything bad. > >Grant Been there, done that a couple weeks ago. I wound up buying another HF helmet to keep in the other truck..... Gunner at yoyodyne they were all veterans of the psychic wars exiled from the eighth dimension where the winds of limbo roar"              mariposa rand mair theal Posted by SteveB on June 18, 2008, 2:28 am Please log in for more thread options > I've used an auto-darkening helmet since 1998. I left it (secured) at a > jobsite > and today I had to tack something together. I have an old helmet and tried > welding the old way, with the chin wag to drop the helmet. After ten years > of no practice, that was nearly impossible! I wound up tacking it together > with my eyes shut. They were just teeny MIG tacks, doubt it will do > anything bad. > > Grant I still nod with my AD on. Sigh ........ Although I prefer to tack with an AD, I can still do it without a hood. BTW, I shaved my head this evening for a Friday doctor appointment to go get some skin cancers blasted off. One narly looking brown one. Wish I had an autodark sooner .................. Steve