Liquid Metal
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For the last few days at work, been on a job thats awkward, small spaces to squeez into, not very clear access for arms or sight, only 15" or so of space around some of it, full Tig 2" butts and just a general PITA. To make it even better, its being pressure tested and 10% is being xrayed.
Most of the time i use an Optrel e680, and wouldn't be without it. Whilst doing this though, went back to my old plastic shield with 2"x 4" flip up lense holder, shade 10 lense. It lays dormant in my locker very rarely sees the light of day for any more than an hour or two. Used it because trying to look through the gap to get a decent root in most of the butts was making my optrel flash and the flipup is overall a smaller size (good for squeezing head into a gap to see what doing).
Am going to have to give it some use a lot more often for tig work though, after using reactive shields for so long, had fogotten just how crystal-clear a view of the puddle and joint you get through a passive glass lense!
i guess My point is....
It might be frustrating at first when getting to grips with any sort of welding, and the guys on you tube might not use them any more, but.....
Dont write them off, as you wont get as clear a view of a weld puddle through any LCD as you will through straight dark glass. Was like having a new pair of eyes!
As a bonus the lift up is great for precisely cutting/grinding tacks out with a clear view rather than a shade 3 that keeps flicking dark.
Most of the time i use an Optrel e680, and wouldn't be without it. Whilst doing this though, went back to my old plastic shield with 2"x 4" flip up lense holder, shade 10 lense. It lays dormant in my locker very rarely sees the light of day for any more than an hour or two. Used it because trying to look through the gap to get a decent root in most of the butts was making my optrel flash and the flipup is overall a smaller size (good for squeezing head into a gap to see what doing).
Am going to have to give it some use a lot more often for tig work though, after using reactive shields for so long, had fogotten just how crystal-clear a view of the puddle and joint you get through a passive glass lense!
i guess My point is....
It might be frustrating at first when getting to grips with any sort of welding, and the guys on you tube might not use them any more, but.....
Dont write them off, as you wont get as clear a view of a weld puddle through any LCD as you will through straight dark glass. Was like having a new pair of eyes!
As a bonus the lift up is great for precisely cutting/grinding tacks out with a clear view rather than a shade 3 that keeps flicking dark.
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