Today I acquired...........

[BrokenBiker]

Even no mask

Seriously a good welding mask make night turn to day.
I've tried even much more expensive helmets but my nice and simple Esab warrior works the best for me.
Despite it's not the greatest or newest helmet I find it perfect.
I mig weld with it up to 350A no problems and tig weld aluminum even a the lower current settings.
A shame they discontinued it

i have discovered today how much difference a good mask can make

 

[Memmeddu]

i have discovered today how much difference a good mask can make

No more red eyes at the end of the day?
Being able to see the puddle?
Or just a nice headgear that doesn't dig in your skull?
Well I've discovered that to late too

 

[northwest]

That's a lot of smelly fingers and bad breath!

I would also call it a result, not the smelly fingers but he is going to need a LOT of tartare sauce

But how many are welding masks?

This is a very valid point and could really do with an answer.

 

[RWD3M]

This is a very valid point and could really do with an answer.

All of them! 2 true colour, one auto darkening and my old hand held that I just can't bring myself to throw away!

I'm keeping the spare true colour one because I'm hoping to get the granddaughter interested in welding soon. She's 5 and a half, so not too long to wait.

 

[northwest]

What! No Gimp or Clown?

 

[6ply]

A new centrifugal switch

 

[BrokenBiker]

No more red eyes at the end of the day?
Being able to see the puddle?
Or just a nice headgear that doesn't dig in your skull?
Well I've discovered that to late too

better vision and better head gear. ive never suffered with sore eyes after welding but i have had headaches from the head gear and straining to see whats going on...the mask i have now is worlds above the ones ive bene using...the downside is, now i can see all the mistakes as im making them

 

[northwest]

my old hand held that I just can't bring myself to throw away!

My pal, who is one of the most talented and overall great welder and fabricator still uses an old handheld as his main mask. He is very old school in many, many ways.

 

[Memmeddu]

My pal, who is one of the most talented and overall great welder and fabricator still uses an old handheld as his main mask. He is very old school in many, many ways.

Honestly I hate and I've always hated the hand held masks.
The ability to have both hands free is priceless.
While Stick welding you can prop yourself on something or help yourself to guide the rod or again to stabilize your stinger especially when your rod is still long and hard to control.
Mig welding it helps a lot for sliding the torch along the workpiece without touching the cup on it.
Tig welding it's obvious as well as gas welding or cutting.
With hand held ones I've always found myself fighting to keep the weld going or starting where it's needed to be

 

[iNf]

More goodies from Arceurotrade

 

[iNf]

A good day today
Half the price of retail from cash converters . Registered for extended warranty on Bosch website.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Just some of the stuff from the lock up.

Some will be kept, some is already being sorted. look out certain loonies on here. PM will be in bound.

The rest will be sorted and put up for sale.

 

[Porkypine]

The old sewing machine looks interesting..

 

[OJCar]

^ Poor Hercules the Horse delivering that lot!

 

[MattF]

What's this item? I'm intrigued.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

A sewing machine.
Will get better images laters

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

The old sewing machine looks interesting..

Which one?

 

[Muzzer]

If you use the snip tool to copy the image and paste it into Google Images, it comes up with some good candidates:

Looks like this one to me.

 

[Porkypine]

Which one?

The one MattF pulled up in the pic

 

[MattF]

Which one?

There's more than one sewing machine? Any chance of photo's of the other(s) too?