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[Dazza]

You've just started to learn welding so take this as a warning mate

My welding mask is crap so stupidly thought it'd run a few quick welds by 'looking away'. Woke at 6am today my eyes streaming, got to A&E at 7am to confirm what I thought - I have Arc Eye

This can be very severe and even blind you. Its caused by looking at the arc (flash) created when welding. Symptoms are, weeping eyes that feel gritty and are blood shot - A damp towl will help them but you need to be checked out for further damage and I was given eye ointment.

Learn from my mistake

[sikora]

Plonker

[Ruishy1]

gotta say mate, thats just fooking daft on your part

[Dazza]

tbh I wasnt welding much nor did I glare straight at it really - Just goes to show, welding is dangerous

[- Danny Boy -]

You can on the other hand get a good tan from it! You might be VERY red and sore for a while, but it does come up nicely

[snake]

buy an auto mask! can get them pretty cheap these days, i remember when they first came out, mine cost £200!! worth they weight in gold! esp when you have a big job to do, gotta put a full sill on an escort....

dont matter if you dont look right at it!, if you can see it at all you can get arc eye!

[sikora]

Decent ones still are about £200. Cheap ones tend to give the "double vision effect" meaning you see 2 arcs.

I need a new one. The sensors are dying

[Dazza]

Yeah I was going to get an auto one, would be a cheap one mind as Im no expert welder and nor do I do much of it

[snake]

oh! seen some sealey ones about for £80-100 thought they would be ok, think mines a mac one

[Sphinx]

Cheers for the warning.
Back in the first year of uni we did a bit of welding (about 5 minutes) and the guy did drum in the health and safety stuff so rest assured my auto-mask is near enough glued to my face when I'm anywhere near the welder

[Ratspeed]

I still cant trust an auto mask! i still close my eyes when it arcs