Don't forget the pancake mask too, they're popular with pipe welders and cooler than the leather hoods.
taz00, that leather mask of yours looks way better than those leather sock hoods that cover your whole head. Those things are nasty. What brand is that?
Also, what the heck are you guys welding on in that pic?
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Don't forget the pancake mask too, they're popular with pipe welders and cooler than the leather hoods.
It is made by a Greek company that specializes in PPE. Here is a link to that mask
https://www.stop.gr/en/Product/4545-Welding-Mask
They also make an all black leather one which is stiffer
image1 by Taz00, on Flickr
As far as the welding, this is a procedure qualification test according to API 1104 Appendix B for an in service weld for a hot tap.
Water flows from inside the pipe to simulate the cooling effects of the actual fluid in the pipeline.
Here is a sketch of the test piece taken from the code to help you understand the setup and a pic from another hot tap where you can see the split tee.
Welding by Taz00, on Flickr
Welding by Taz00, on Flickr
To clarify, I was not the one welding in any of these pics, I was the welding inspector.
Can't say much except you are right.
Weld-mask arrived today. Pretty quick delivery if you ask me. Got it from cyberweld. Seems to be as advertised. Carry bag. Little glasses thingy that could take prescription lenses. The hood is small, real small. I didn't get back to the shop till this evening so I'll pull the miller out in the morning and see how it does. Other than the small, tight hood I think it will serve my space requirements well and I think I will like how I can lay on my back or side and have the goggles stay where I can see out of them.
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Well, the millerweld mask worked as advertised.
I gave it a workout up under a pontoon and it allowed me plenty of room to see what I was doing.
The only two negatives are:
1. The blue hood is too small for a normal American male.
2. It does not have a shade setting of 10.
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When we built this 1-mile of container ship dock at the Port of Oakland California. I was the pile driving superintendent. Just to the left of the crawler crane, and concrete trucks is a 15-feet tall pre-cast concrete cutoff wall. Right next to the first row of concrete piles. Our estimators didn’t put any money in the bid for shoring boxes. And with the road right there they could not slope the ditch. The guys were going in a 15-feet deep ditch with vertical walls. We poured concrete every Friday, and the derrick drove piles just off shore. I went to the project manager and told him he needed to rent shoring boxes. He replied that there was no money for them. I went out and told the guys they were crazy for getting in that ditch!
When they say stupid snit like that is when you have to drop a dime on them!
That was the first thing I thought of, "HE11 NO I'm not getting in there without a trench box."
Oh, there's no money in the bid for boxes? Well how much money is in the bid for 1-800-321-OSHA, because I think they're on their way now.
Ryan
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Heather hoods work great, they can get dam hot when welding in the sun, good for those short weld jobs you just cant fit a regular helmet into.
Many Many years ago I saw my first pancake welding helmet, I thought it was the craziest thing ever, if I had not seen other guys using them I would have thought it was a joke.
Then one 112 degree day in the ditch on 16 inch gas line I tried one on, I was sold at that day on. That was years ago but I still have a couple here in the office.
Even if those guys in the pit were only buried to their necks, they would still be eFd because the pressure on their bodies would be bad and as they get un buried, their bodies would bloat. I know this because I knew someone that died that way. They pulled the plug on him after two days in the hospital. One guy died immediately another only got his leg buried and had to stay buried thru the night as medics slowly un buried his leg. The gypo contractor got his feet buried but slipped away out of town.
These goggles look like they would work in tight spaces.
http://www.phillips-safety.com/weldi...-wld-s-55.html
The company that sells them can put any shade you want in them.
CEP you guys did a great job on that pier, i used to go in there every 35 days until i retired. Its neat seeing it under construction, thanks for posting that picture. As far as the lack of trench boxes on the job site, i can't imagine that happening anywhere much less in California you would think there would have been some type of oversight from some government agency who would have put a stop to that. What year did you do that project?
Pier 400 in Long Beach was another of my regular stops, And another nice facility; we moved a lot of boxes across that dock every trip.
Looking for one of these I know this threads old where can I get one