Old's cool! welding hood

[pritch]

I rescued this welding hood from a high school I was tearing down. It needed a head band, and one finally came my way.

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So-how many of you learned to weld in one just like this in high school?

[ETsC10]

Yup...grew up around those things (Dad was a welder)
and I still find stacks of lenses in my stuff.
Cool find!

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[crossfire84]

yup! brings back memorys shop class was the best, only one i never skipped out of!

[donut]

Looks like an old Fibre-Metal, learned to weld with one and when I was welding full time, would sometimes use it. Tool room used to keep a couple for spares, if one of the guys broke a headband etc. on his hood.

[dieseldawg142]

bought this CIG helmet in late '80's, much prefer it to my full face auto darkening hat. when something is super comfortable, you just dont get rid of it!

[johnnyclack]

YeP’ I wore one over decades ago, and I still have a sore neck= they must weigh about 4Lbs. The one I wore bulged out at the bottom so we could wear respirators underneath.

My Grandmother, my Father were welders , my Nephew & I still weld making four generations of welders. It's a family tradtion <><>

When I was 7~8 years old I wore an old Jackson for Halloween one year, it was so stinking hot I dam near died in that thing, you’d thought it would have taught better

[pritch]

Yup-they are heavy!

I have a auto-darkening, but I don't like to use it. It's not dark enough. I need to get a darker lens for it, but haven't yet.

[johnnyclack]

Originally Posted by pritch

Yup-they are heavy!

I have a auto-darkening, but I don't like to use it. It's not dark enough. I need to get a darker lens for it, but haven't yet.

I understand fully

For years I wore a #11 shade

Now with the auto lens I need to use a #10 shade, where before that would have melted my eyes.

A couple on months back I was working with an apprentice, I use a #9 shade/setting when using a plasma torch. I told the trainee the setting I was using & he set up his hood same. Then we went back to welding, I forgot to check his sitting and we welded for the rest of the day. Poor Kid missed three days of work, went through a weekend and came back on Monday wearing a patch over one eye for the remainder of the week. I flet like a s___ for not checking his hood.

[pritch]

Originally Posted by johnnyclack

A couple on months back I was working with an apprentice, I use a #9 shade/setting when using a plasma torch. I told the trainee the setting I was using & he set up his hood same. Then we went back to welding, I forgot to check his sitting and we welded for the rest of the day. Poor Kid missed three days of work, went through a weekend and came back on Monday wearing a patch over one eye for the remainder of the week. I flet like a s___ for not checking his hood.

Ouch! The Sandman paid him a nice long visit! He's come to see me before, too!

[MYBAD66]

I have one of those CIG's and an auto shader.... I prefer my auto shader because it was my fathers. The CIG I got from an old retired welder when I was in oregon. He also gave me his old time leather coveralls, jacket, gloves, tool box, and more....along with his old bell box stick machine!