Thread: Watch out for the UV.

Yeah its easy to get burned with the UV Rays. my welding jacket has a thick cotton chest and leather arms and the cotton has lost all its color was purple now sorta white color.

hi all,
Ok!
A couple of points to be made about UV emissions from a welding arc.

A ranking order of severity of emissions,for example for 10 mins of exposure, you could be burnt a little from stick,even more from Mig and and yet even more again from Tig.

1. Stick.
2. Mig
3. Tig

As amperage increases in each of the the processes so does the amount of emissions.

I seem to remember in my studies it was due to the cross sectional area of the electrode multiplied by the amperage running on the electrode.

For its given cross sectional area tig by its nature of small diam electrodes gives off far higher emissions than
stick in comparison.
Another spin on that is what you are welding on steel ,ali or stainless and the reflectivity othe particular metal

It won't make a lot of of sense until you get forget to cover up during welding.I still get caught now and again.
Its then quick little jobs that get ya.

Grahame

couple of weeks back, i was welding a pair of handlebars for my little brothers scooter with my tig. would of been 40 amps 2.4 tungsten ( dont have 1.6 ) and wore just a tshirt for my upper body with gloves. about half my arm was glowing red after something like 2 minutes welding. never again

The basic rule is cover up and if you are mig welding make sure you dont tuck your pants into your boots. A few years ago i saw this happen and a large piece of molten metal ran down this guys pants and straight into his boot. He suffered a nice big hole in his foot and was off work for 2 weeks and not to mention the pain.

Y damn right it can happen pretty damn fast.

as far as tucking things in...... My big brother ( the professional metal worker in the family), wont weld with anything tucked in......I think he got a hot clinker down his shirt early in his apprenticeship and it got mixed up in his wedding tackle....so he has untucked his shirt ever since before welding.

Remember It is my theory that rap dancing was invented by a welder that got a clinker some where is shouldn't.

One thing that is definitely a NO NO.... is mig welding in shorts with no undies....... fortunitely I learned this from someone elses mistake.

cheers

Originally Posted by soundman

One thing that is definitely a NO NO.... is mig welding in shorts with no undies.......

I play a tiny bit of online games.. My gaming name is not "Burnt Testicle Man" for nothing.

I hope never to understand your pain

My understanding is that it makes you walk funny

cheers