Ok, because of the normal age deterioration thing and probably something to do with years of abuse I'm having a heck of a time trying to see good when I'm welding..... TIG or MIG, same thing. Soon as the arc starts, I have a terrible time trying to see what I'm doing....same thing happens with the plasma arc. Seems to be the more welding I do, the worse my vision gets.

I've tried different shades of lens, a 10 seems to be the best. I have a high quality auto darkening helmet that seems to be fast enough, at least no sore eyes or anything. I use a florescent light for backlighting, seems to help eliminate some of the shadows.

Kind of wondering if some of the other geezer qualified folks on the site are experiencing the same problems, and what you might have for suggestions on how to improve things when welding....????? Soon I'll be putting a frame and cage together for 2 projects, and a 6 point bar for another.... I've always done my own welding on roll bars, don't know if I'm really ready to turn it over to someone else......I have on occasion been known to crash test some of my welds, no failures so far, and am just a bit nervous about having someone else do the cage work.... Just another part of getting old, or is there some other things I can try???????