Welding Helmets

Whether you are Mig welding, Tig welding or Arc welding. With out a welding helmet, there would be no way that you could look at the extremly bright welding arc.

The welding helmet will dull the bright welding arc right down so that all you see is the most concentrated welding arc, and the welding puddle.

This will allow you to see what you are doing.

Originaly the first style of helmets that came out where a simple flip up, flip down type. With those welding helmets you had to flip the filter lense down each time you wanted to weld. Then you would be protected from the welding arc.

Once you finished your weld you would either flip the welding filter lense back up, or simly just take the welding helmet off.One of the biggest problems with the normal type helmets is that when you go to flip the filter lense down, you quite often lose your starting position.

You have to hold the welding electrode or the mig gun at the point where you want to start to weld, then with your other hand you have to flip the lense down. When you go to flip the lense down on your welding helmet, your hand holding the mig gun or welding rod will slightly move. So when you actualy pull the trigger or strike the arc, you will not start where you wanted to start.

This is a lot easier to control when mig welding as you do not have to wave a welding electrode around to strick an arc but it still make welding that little bit harder.

Now there are auto darkening welding helmets. An auto darkening welding helmet, will automatically darken when there is a welding arc.

These things are brilliant. Honestly, just by buying and using an auto helmet. Your welding will improve heaps.

It will improve because for starters you can see where you are welding, and secondly you will not get frustrated a flipping a lense up and down.

Here is another fancy type of you can get. They come in all styles these days. Flames, spiders, racing teams etc.

It is a "flaming skull welding helmet". Is is also an automatic helmet, too.

You can buy an auto darkening welding helmet these days really cheap. Most hardware stores and welding supply shops will have them.

Click the link below to see the inside of my auto darkeing welding helmet, and all of it's settings.

Auto Darkening Welding Helmets

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