Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #19199
From: Mark R Steitle <mark.steitle@austin.utexas.edu>
Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re:
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:49:10 -0600
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
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Rusty,

Don’t forget about others in the vicinity, and pets too.  A friend’s dog got his retinas burned from an arc welder. 

 

Mark S. 

(I wear gloves to keep me from burning my fingers)


From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Russell Duffy
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 3:44 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re:

 

-the other photo is why I decided to spend my money on a welder, rather than on a welder.  Tom does very nice work.  His welding hood has magnifying lens and he welds barehanded.  Well, that impresses me at least.   

 

Looks a little better than mine, but so far mine hasn't broken :-)

 

Was this TIG welded?  How does he keep his hand from getting that arc induced sunburn?  Man, I played with my TIG welder for about 15 minutes when I first got it.  I read all the warnings and such, and figured they only applied to people who did this hours a day.  The only thing I took seriously was the eye protection.  Of course I was in short pants, kneeling on the floor.  Afterwards, I had the worst "sunburn" of my life.  Lasted for about 2 weeks.  I just welded an electric flap limit switch bracket a few minutes ago.  It was a tiny job, but I put on the leather coat, gloves, helmet, lead cup <g>, etc.  Lesson learned.

 

Cheers,

Rusty

 

PS- Tracy will catch up eventually.  Auto tune will temporarily delay him, but when everyone has it, he should have more free time :-)

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