Been welding since I was just a sprout Ken. Made a living for
many of my productive years by dumping the helmet. When I
picked up my Miller-matic a few years back I threw in one of
their fancy helmets, even though it knows when to go dark I
still find myself dumping the helmet and nearly always raise
it at the end of a weld, ever if I'm running a string of skips.
But.....It is the nuts when you're working in a lot of
different positions where you need need a lot of different
settings and you need more or less lens. a twist of the knob
and you've gone from a 9 to a 12 rather than stopping an
swapping lenses. and with my bifocals I can't get my head
back far enough to see overhead so the magnifiers turn the
trick. Now if the cataracts weren't on the rise I might be
able to see where the joint is and quite running off to now
mans land with my beads. Funny how 20 years ago I would have
had a fit if my welds turned out like some do now. Guess I've
mellowed out in my old age.
dg
