Just A Friendly Reminder..

[zapster]

With the heat of summer here now...
Welding in shorts and T shirts without turning yourself into a Lobster can be avoided with a very simple solution available at any drug store..

Start with this..

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Apply where skin is exposed..

Wash hands after..

It works GREAT!

And it makes you smell like your at the beach..







With your mask on..:laugh:

...zap!

[tanglediver]

Tig welders! :rolleyes:

[odleo]

Zap: You would still be a higher risk for skin cancer even with the SPF 50, by not wearing some form of other protection. My grandfathers were both weldors and they always told me to make sure any exposed skin was covered. Both of them had problems with skin cancer:cry: from not wearing proper attire.
Just my .02

[mla2ofus]

Does the Coppertone also protect against sparks falling in your shoes/boots???
Mike

[enlpck]

Just a warning: sunblock does NOT protect from the most harmful UV produced by welding, and that for which it does provide some protection may be many times the intensity of the UV from the sun.

The most damaging wavelengths (UV-C) form to SUN are blocked by miles of atmosphere. These wavelengths are not significantly attenuated in the short path between the arc and you.

Yes, a very good idea to use as added protection, especially when the hea is up and the covering is kept light. Covering up is still key.

[Me!]

Does the Coppertone also protect against sparks falling in your shoes/boots???
Mike

zap is doing TIG, so the sparks should not be a problem :cool:

[lewray]

yeah Ive often wondered about the dangers of weld flash. :eek:

It seems I keep a good tanned face all the time even though my helmet is obviously covering my head. :p

I too thought about the lotion.

Im going to give it a try.

[mla2ofus]

zap is doing TIG, so the sparks should not be a problem :cool:
So he either has a water table or someone else does his torch/plasma cutting???:laugh:
Mike

[zapster]

So he either has a water table or someone else does his torch/plasma cutting???:laugh:
Mike


Torch work is just heating for shrink fit..

Very rarely do I have any cutting to do ..:nono:

But cutting on a lathe is a whole diffrent thing...:cool:

...zap!

[PivotLok]

When I weld I always wear the proper attire and shorts and tee shirts are not part of that.
JMHO

[azlar]

Shorts and a t-shirt are my normal garage attire, but I have a leather apron I don for welding activities. I'm only a hobbiest, so I throw on the apron for a few tack-welds or a short bead then uncover to grind things down.

It's normally 90+ in my AZ garage so don't want to spend too much time covered up.

[Packrat]

Gee..... I wish I read this before welding with my mig, in a T shirt the other day. Only a few short welds and a bunch of sparks on the bare arm, and I had a burn, like a sunburn, as well as blotches were the sparks landed.

I once worked for a Welder, and was holding a piece in place while he tacked it. I had a coat on, but my wrists where exposed. I started hollering when the sparks landed on me. I was going ouch ouch ouch, His comment to me was....."why are you saying ouch....by the time you get around to saying ouch. the spark has gone out." I returned his remark with, "Yea, but the ouch was there for the second and the third spark"......:laugh:

[Rojodiablo]

You know, Steve Irwin would be alive today if he had used Coppertone. It would have protected him from the harmful rays!!!

[deadman1474]

Not to sound like a jerk but alot of the people know what Im talking about. Your sitting there sweting like a fountin you are doing this for 6 hours straight with a tig welder and a ipod (At least thats me).Talk about wanting to die I only wore the safty gear once and after that its short sleaves with long tig gloves and sun screen. So I cover up my arms and torso but im sure you can voture for this but shorts are the only way to go. There are some people that are super safty related and they would last 5 miniuts in the areas that I'm use to working. You have to make money and theres no point in sweting to death.

[olddad]

Full gear...even in the Dog Days of summer...it separates the welders from the wannabees...lol

[pinklilly11]

I always wear all my gear, the one day I didn't I got a 2nd degree torch burn on my arm just above where my (TIG) glove ended. I thought I was fitting in with the guys who didn't wear their gear, wasn't paying full attn and ran the flame right over my arm.

Again, I always wear my gear. The summer was 105 degrees July and Aug in Ga. Hot is hot no matter what.:nono:

[ridgerunner]

Just wait till your welding at a construction site!Last summer I had a bunch of rod to burn...Texas....July.....107 degrees...absolutely no shade just dirt rock and cement for company oh and 20 million ****ed off fireants.just for kicks the second day I taped a small thermometer inside my helmet...Nothing like 142 degrees to make a person wish he had an office job....Always better to wear whatever safety gear ya need and be miserable then end up regretting the lack.You can always take a quick breather minus the gear and then get back to it but Blisters,burns and cuts take a while to heal not to mention long term skin cancer risks far far in excess of what most normal people ever see
Be safe
Jason

[Joe H]

Ta' heck with full gear! I don't need all that crap to TIG weld, give me a break. I'd MUCH rather burn myself than wear that crap all day during a summer day here. I wear a helmet and gloves, and I dont always wear gloves. If I'm gonna be doing alot of stick welding, especially OOP, it's a different story.

[olddad]

Ta' heck with full gear! I don't need all that crap to TIG weld, give me a break.
Your life...your choice. Tenn got that welfare insurance down there ?

ridgerunner...I used to work at a place where my booth just happened to have all the incoming electrical distibution panels for the whole plant. I had the seniority but the machines in this booth were just killer so I stayed there. It was not unusual in the Dog Days for the air temp to be 120 degrees during the day every summer even if I was working on stuff that didn't require welding. Even Texas didn't have anything on that place...full gear was the name of the game anytime I fired a welder up which was most of the time.

[TEK]

Summer of '96, Indian Wells, Ca.(south of Palm Springs) 122 deg./ F. Was doing full pens overhead for an addition on a custom house. HVAC guy come out and asked if I was okay cuz he said he could see me wobblin a bit. He put his pocket thermometer on the ground where I was standing---165 degrees....I had hood, gloves and sleeves on and they were soaked. One of the reasons I now live in the nice, cool Sierra foothills:waving:

[calweld]

I weld full coverage always, normally a long-sleeved cotton fire-resistant welding jacket. I can't admit to 122 degrees, but here in the California Central Valley and in Nevada, 110 isn't uncommon, and I'm not ashamed to admit, when I feel the initial stages of heat stroke I'll crawl under the truck and take a break.

[sn0border88]

I used to get burnt welding in a t-shirt, but I can tig all day now and not even get red. Is that bad?

I still get a lil red from mig

[pinklilly11]

Ummm.........I would say yes, that is bad.

[zapster]

I've been welding for for 33 years and have no sign of anything...
I use the sunscreen while stick welding also..
Not once have I turned my arms red when I use it..

It works!
But you need the highest UV protection you can get...

Wintertime I don't need it..
Long johns do the job in the cold..

...zap!

[SonyMobile]

Well, I don't get a chance to do any TIG welding anymore, my life consists of wire feeders now :mad: BUT, I still spend every day wearing shorts and a t-shirt.... Under my overalls and jacket. Althought I do apply sun-screen from my collarbone to my chin, and try to get as far back aswell. I always have terrible flash burns right around my jaw line and ear lobe.

[Joe H]

If I end up with skin cancer, it'll be from the SUN. I work outside every day, pick up a tahitian (farmer's) tan before april. Don't think I've ever been sunburnt, not from welding or from the sun.

[aczeller]

so it was probably bad that i was welding with out a shirt on, in shorts, no shoes (only socks) and no gloves? :eek: oh yea... i also had pneumonia at the time (which i'm still getting rid of):cool2: . i needed to do a quick weld on my under-car creeper while i was changing my alternator.