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Originally posted by Art Welch
I've never tried a Harbor Freight helmet but Michael Elliot had less than complementary things to say about his. Something about waking up the next day with sore eyes and a splitting headache.
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I can't speak for the quality of HF lenses.
I have a couple of Speedglas automatic lenses, and just the lenses run a couple hundred. They fit into any helmet with a large standard opening. I hate being tied to any one helmet becase only a certain lens will fit, and vice versa.
I've never had a problem, and my helmet sees quite a bit of use.
I wasn't sure if he was implying that auto lenses in general are a bad thing, or just those from HF.
Recently I burned my corneas, we were doing a lot of aluminum on a hot project. Multiple weld arcs in a tight area.....we flashed each other quite a bit. That and there was a lot of stray UV light bouncing around.
It's a lot more than just sore.....very painful in fact.
If your eyes ever bother you after welding, get a new lens. Something is wrong.
My mistake was a lack of safety glasses. I don't normally wear them while welding because it's just another lens to fog up or have sweat drip on. When my helmet was up or off, I had zero UV protection. I now wear my glasses whenever we're working with aluminum.
Allen