Welding Goggles

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I bought some welding goggles in anticipation of Dragoncon because making steampunk stuff is cheaper and more in the spirit of the thing than buying it. It was bright outside, and I think my last pair of sunglasses are still somewhere in Europe, so I put them on. I could look at the August sky without my eyes hurting for the first time in my life. I could see detail even in the shadows without taking them off. Other than the few degrees they shave off of my peripheral vision and the slight, green patina they throw over the world, they are perfect. At five to ten dollars a pair online, they are a very cost effective solution. They look weird, but I already wear top hats. I had might as well add goggles. I am exited to have figured this out and hope the idea can be helpful to someone else.

I have welding goggles also. I used them when doing solar energy experiments. You are almost like in a different world when you when you wear them.

Cool, I've always wanted a pair of PERSCRIPTION welding goggles. YAY for extreme nearsightedness!

Don't weld with those goggles. They are only rated for the brightness of cutting and brazing, and you would burn the rest of your face too if you welded with them.

Oxy-Acetaleyne welding would be fine, both me and my dad will do it without any form of eye protection though I try to avoid doing it for longer than a few minutes. I can't arc weld worth a s**t as dark as the helmets I've used are, I'm looking forward to getting an auto-darkening one in the future.

I've used a #5 shade of goggles as sunglasses during long road trips with lots of glare, they work very well for that purpose as well as for oxy-fuel welding. I like an auto-darkening hood set to #9 for any sort of arc welding and turn it to #10-11 for TIG work, but that would be way too dark for driving. If you could find them, #3 would be perfect for everyday use for taking the glare out of things.

I found that for long distance driving that polarizing glasses are great, you lose the reflection off things like wet roads but you still are able to see the things you need to see.

I was told that welding googles are for IR and visible light which is OK for oxyacetylene work, I think that the flame and the work will act as black body radiators and create mostly normal light and IR.

Arc welding makes lots of UV light, hence you need a different type of eye protection to block out the UVC, other UV and visible light. What ever you do not not use the wrong sort of googles for arc work. What will happen is that the pupils of the eyes will enlarge as the visible light level is low which allows more UV light into your eyes. This is not good !

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I took welding years ago at art school, and as I recall, when wearing the welding goggles used for oxy-acetylene welding (which I assume are the ones we are talking about) I couldn't see much of anything. I'm not sure it's such a good idea to wear them around or to drive. It might be better to look for actual sunglasses that are darker than the normal sunglasses (perhaps by prescription).

if you use wielding gogles all time they will hurt your vision