Australian Streamliner Bike Build

[Peter Jack]

The latter always happens when you're lying in a confined space so your head can rattle back and forth between two hard objects. 

Pete

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Minor hijack:  Dr. G, remind me to show you the tattoo I sport -- of me with my hair on fire.

[JimL]

I can say with certainty; auto darkening helmets are worthless when you are kneeling in a flaming puddle of acetone.  The bright orange glow, inside the helmet, causes the sensing to stop working.  This leaves you temporarily arc blinded while trying to stagger out of the fire.  There are a lot of strange sounds going on, also, which I still havent figured out.  

Mysteries of life.

[manta22]

Hair on fire? ...done that with a torch.  :-P Also dropped molten solder down my shoe on another occasion.

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

[Rex Schimmer]

I just bought an "auto darkening" helmet which I really like "except" when you are laying on your side with the TIG torch in your left hand ( I happen to be right handed) and that arm looped over a tube and I am pressing on the pedal with my knee and I am trying to see the arc and the lens that the helmet looks through to cause the auto darkening goes behind another tube and all of a sudden it ain't dark anymore!! lots of fun! You get to see stars for a few minutes.


Rex

[WOODY@DDLLC]

Took a stick welding class once and wore my Bonneville tee-shirt. Burned the SCTA logo right onto my chest! 

Hurt like Hades but sometimes that's just the price of dedication! 

[Stainless1]

ya never think about MIG throwing so much slag until your tenny runner catches fire...  I guess that's why the pros dress for the part... :|

[SPARKY]

!!!!!

[Tman]

ya never think about MIG throwing so much slag until your tenny runner catches fire...  I guess that's why the pros dress for the part... :|

I have been safer in my sandals than my running shoes. With the sandals the slag usually rolls off but with the runners it catches in the mesh and kinda melts in!

[Captthundarr]

You guys are stating to give me the willies, sandals, flops and tennys in the shop? OOooo.
Sorry, I am an industrail Safety, Health and environmental manager by trade. 

[Peter Jack]

As a tradesman (welder) watching a lot of the car and motorcycle build shows on TV scares the h*e*l*l out of me. I have no idea why a lot of those guys can still see after using unguarded abrasive wheels with no protective goggles and no one seems worried about skin cancer, welding in T-shirts, despite the fact that the ultra violet burns that you receive can be deep and serious. Just an observation that continues to amaze me. 

Pete

[Captthundarr]

Yea Jack, no kidding. wonder how the pretty car build host would look blind in one eye and a 4" scar running up his cheek.

Now back to our regularly scheduled build thread........

[Tman]

Every person has their personal safety levels that they feel comfortable with . Since I was in my late teens I NEVER work around power equipment/noise w/o my ear muffs or ear plugs. Learned that from a carpentry mentor. But I see guys with ALL the gear, long sleeves, faceshield etc BUT THEY GRIND AWAY WITH NO HEARING PROTECTION!!!!!!!!!!!! I always have eye pro as well as hearing pro.

[wobblywalrus]

A person can get tinnitis.  The ringing in the ears that never goes away with the accompanying hearing loss.  Don't ask me about how I know.  Hearing protection is very important.

[tauruck]

I apolgise profusely for jacking this thread but everyone who chimed in added value. We need to be safe when working with tools. I raced cars that ran Mazda Rotary motors. They say the pain threshold on sound is 121DB. These things were recorded at 125 going down the main straight at the old Kyalami. Fans used to take the opportunity to find something else to do that was further away. Now we have a fight over the remote in our house because the wife says it's too loud and I say screw it I can't hear a thing. My favourite stuff, NASCAR and then NHRA. I shouldn't be giving advice on apparel when welding but I've done the shorts no shirt sandal thing too many times. If you need a rush go plasy in the traffic. The most important one of them all is eye protection.  You don't wanna be a deaf dumb and blind kid. I've had the foreign object in the eye thing twice. One time it was while wearing protective eyeware. The headache associated with this injury will drive you to suicide and i'm dead serious. Arc Eyes is nothing compared. I use motocross goggles for grinding. Welding in sandals is quite cool though, you do that jig that Anthony Hopkins did in the World's fastest Indian and your friends will love you for it.