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Third world heavy equipment muffler fabrication. 13:35 video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-J1zag6bOU
Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...681#post193699
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...646#post139712
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...084#post145231
Breathing those zinc fumes can't be good...
I'm sure he has created antibodies to protect him from zinc fumes and red hot weld spatter on his feet. Or something. I'm no biologist.Quote:
Originally Posted by IntheGroove
Note also that he never wears or uses dark shaded glasses or a welding hood for his eyes and he has probably been doing this most of his life.Quote:
Originally Posted by nova_robotics
He could be much younger than he looks...
Not likely, I've met several of those guys, who have been welding without any PPE all their lives One guy I met was in his 70s and still didn't need glasses. to use tip cleaners to clean his cutting torch tip. The pupils and irises of their eyes are coal black you can't tell where the Iris ends and the pupil begins.Quote:
Originally Posted by IntheGroove
Light gauge metal muffler won't last for long.
He has antibodies to UV light too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
I guess in a world without excessive rules, regulations and do-gooders screaming "you can't do that", basic tools, talent and experience still get things done.
These videos showing people working on the floor in what we consider beach clothes are always interesting to watch. Especially seeing how the "old master" is teaching the young apprentice.
Okay I actually understand the newspaper. It's so he won't get a sunburn on his face.
About 20 years ago a neighbour got drunk and put his four wheeler through the ice. It sat at the bottom of a salt water lake for a week. He got it running again, but the bottom of the frame rotted out completely from all the salt water that had basically filled the tubular frame. So I was doing a really delicate welding job trying to repair the frame and make it look good with a terrible little AC arc welder. It was delicate work and I didn't want to keep raising and lowering the shield, so I took the lens out and just held it in one hand as I welded. My eyes were protected by the rest of my face was not. I went in to work the next day and one of my coworkers said I looked like a lobster.
A lot of retinas took a lot of abuse before auto-darkening weld helmets became readily available around 2005 or so to those making a welder's salary. They are one of the most useful things invented in the past few years.Quote:
Originally Posted by nova_robotics
Auto darkening helmets are right up there with sliced bread. When they first came out most of my buddies who were welders wouldn't use them. Buncha Luddites. I jumped on the auto darkening bandwagon pretty fast. It was a game changer.Quote:
Originally Posted by ductape
A Donaldson muffler for a truck is made out of 22 gage the tubes are 16ga so there's probably not a whole lot of difference.Quote:
Originally Posted by mansworld
I bought my first auto dark hood sometime around 1999 it was called the speed glass, or something like that, cost nearly $400.00 but I still had it all the way until somewhere around. 2008Quote:
Originally Posted by nova_robotics