Thank you for watching and posting.

Right on!

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Thank you!

Good luck!

Thanks for watching Daniel! Welcome to the wonderful field of welding.

yeah, i ran a scientific placebo controlled double blinded study that showed if a helmet has flames on the side welding speed is increased by 10 inches of weld bead per minuet... well 10 inches for 6011, 10.5 for 7018.

Even faster if it’s red flames!

My helmet has the American flag and my welds are more patriotic.

I read that as "I used a pineapple". I thought you were being funny. Alas.

True!

Glad it helped! But just keep in mind that there are lots of great helmets out there. Just because it is cool does not mean it's any better. I just use a regular Miller Pro helmet and when I am doing something smoky I just open the door a little more.

Thanks for watching Dale.

I also have an auto tint helmet and the instructions for my helmet tell me that the sensitivity is for applying the tint when the arc is struck and the delay is for removing the tint after the arc is stopped. The sensitivity applies the tint immediately if it is set to high. For the difference between MIG and TIG, the sensitivity can be adjusted slightly. The delay can be set to allow the glow of the weld to dim slightly after the arc stops. The tint control controls the tint. I hope this is clear, i do tend to ramble at times...

Thanks for posting.

Too much gray hair getting in the way of my brain talking to my mouth. I miss spoke for sure.

+Steve Cook Been spanked on that one already.. but thanks for the slap to the back of the head....

I am always amazed when I put a new lens in mine of how clear it is!

Thanks for watching and posting.

It also stops reflection off of light colored clothing from entering your helmet and lowering visibility.

Glad this helped!! I struggle with seeing sometimes. Got to get creative and make it work for you for "this" weld.

Good info! Thank you for watching and posting.

Big mouth, small brain.

Thanks for watching and posting.

Yes, that is what you "should" see. The arc, the puddle and just a little of the joint you are trying to fill. I always look at the joint, NOT the arc! Let the puddle just "sit" on the corner of your vision and watch the joint and the filler rod as you feed the puddle. Thanks for watching and posting.

Try adding a work light shining on the joint. Make sure the overhead lights are not shining in the back of your helmet.

Anything lower then about 40 amps I will go to a fixed shade 10 lens. For stick I use a 10 shade as well.

I have found pulse welding to be just as strong as regular welding. Pulse mig and/or tig is just what I would use on sheet metal. Anything under 1/8th inch and I have the pulse running. Thanks for watching and posting.

Keep the lens clean and get to work!

We set up student helmets with a clear protective lens on both sides of the tinted lens. Not only does this better protect the lens, but on the jobsite the welder will always be able to discard the spatter-damaged front lens and switch the clear lens to the front to protect the (often expensive if its a specialty glass lens) tinted lens which may not be convenient to replace. I suggest welders do what we did and buy a personal box of replacement clear lenses, or several spares if they have an autodark helmet.

Probably to adjust the tint on the len. A photo would help.

Been there Done that! had a good laugh over it.

+DFWKen You can find some auto dark helmets that have a clearer or bigger view but in my opinion they all get dark when they are supposed to.. Try a fixed shade helmet and see the difference in the view. If you like what you have, keep it and get back to work..

Only you know how your eyes feel. If you are not seeing right when welding I would assume you are going to stop and figure out what's wrong.

Great tip!! Thanks for watching.

Good point , thanks for posting.

Hope you have a good helmet now!

Should be the same for stick. Make sure that no bright light is coming in the back of the helmet. It will wash out the view. Or maybe just add a work light to the area to help with the view.

@@KevincaronSculpture I bought and just tried a magnetized flashlight holder and i couldn't tell where the light was today! lol

Good point, thank you for posting .

True, there is a lot of misinformation and speculation on how the helmets work. Thanks for posting and watching.

I don't think that's right and if it is not then it is dangerous misinformation, isn't it? Flash burn - which I've had - is an actual burn to the tissues caused by UV radiation I believe. That's what I think. What I've been told. That's what gives you sunburn and it is a real burn. And you'll know it alright if you get it. If you get your eyes burned like that. Like having sand in your eyes, in spades. Not like the painless 'afterflash' of seeing a sudden too bright light. Sort of can't see but got an 'afterlight' still burning in your eyes. But no pain. No not like that. Now the thing is that UV radiation is easy to stop. Easy. It does not penetrate ordinary glass, for instance. So that in fact your ordinary eyeglasses will save you from UV burn. You won't get a flash as long as you have your eyeglasses on or your safety glasses maybe ( don't know about that, they're often plastic, I don't know about plastic stopping UV ). But you might well get the 'sudden bright light' blindness thing. I've had it. I have removed my mask and struck an arc and found myself staring stupidly at arc - brain kinda seized up and incapable of thinking while it slowly sinks in what I'm doing. And I never got a 'flash'. Burned eyes. Pain. No. And I reckon it's because I always keep my eyeglasses on. And that fact and that personal experience (which has happened more than once) of mine makes me believe the story I've heard about the UV being stopped. The darkening of the mask, the lens, is just to help with the brightness thing - it's not to protect your eyes from burn. Or if it is then it is not needed. Unless when you get down to the fine detail there's a change to all that. Fine detail? Well there's three kinds of UV radiation. A,B,C. for instance. B causing the burn. And different kinds of glass and I can't find anything about plastics at all in the little look I took. But, come to think of it, my eyeglasses are plastic in fact - just plastic readers... so there you go. But I'm wandering off. Point I'm trying to make: Flash BURN is UV BURN and it is real and it hurts. lt is NOT just a bright light.

Mine does and it is slightly tinted.

My mouth runs faster than my brain sometimes.

Thanks ✌️

I like the view through a fixed shade better but my neck can't handle the nod to close the helmet anymore.

lol

Not that I am aware of.

@@KevincaronSculpture And you have been welding for some time and I assume no cataracts and as such I think you have proven that welding does not cause cataracts. I asked the question as I have about 25 hours of welding time in and now have cataracts where on my last eye exam 16 months ago I had none. Now I am also 75 years of age so maybe it was just my age. Thanks for all of your videos.

still have a static helmet. Always amazed how clear the view is over the auto dark helmet.

Yeah, need to engage brain before opening mouth!

Kevin Caron, Artist engaging the brain is sometimes a difficult thing. I too am self taught, and "delay" to me was always how quick it changed to dark, but having it set fast I was getting flashed mid weld. that's the self taught learning curve.

we call them welding eyes haha

+Rick Glow You have too dark of a tint on the lens or you have too much light shining on the backside of the helmet. Try draping a towel over your head after you drop your helmet to see if that helps..

+Carlos Cedillo Yes, just set the shade for what you are doing...

Thanks, I think!