Quote Originally Posted by Itoldyouso
I borrow Dan's helmet when I am welding and love the fact you don't have to shake your head to lower the helmet, causing me to lose my place. As my eyes get worse from age I find that putting a worklight behind me to illuminate the area I am welding helps immensely. I had trouble keeping the weld going straight before doing that.

Don
I read once that many of the cheaper helmets like Harbor Freight use the same mechanism as more expensive helmets.

Now this picture brings another whole concern, not protecting your skin. Aside from the short term like a bad sunburn or those pesky holes that hot metal makes in skin, long term exposure to welding rays on bare skin is not good. The damaging rays can even penetrate cloth. I rarely strike an arc without my leather on.