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Read Article Welding Helmet Flickering While Welding: Causes and Fixes
Few things rattle your focus like a lens that strobes light and dark in the middle of a bead. A welding helmet flickering while welding is not just annoying, it...
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Read Article The Beginner's Guide to Buying a Welding Helmet
You are about to learn to weld, and the internet has handed you two bad options: a lid so cheap it might flash your eyes, or a professional hood that costs more...
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Read Article Welding Helmet Buying Guide for Aluminum Welding
Aluminum welding, specifically TIG welding on aluminum, is the application that most clearly separates a competent auto-darkening helmet from an excellent one....
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Read Article Welding Helmet Buying Guide for Home Hobbyists
I have taught more than a few people to weld in home shop settings over the years, and the equipment conversation always starts the same way: they want to know...
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Read Article Welding Helmet Buying Guide for Grinding and Cut Off Work
Grinding is part of welding. It is not a separate activity that happens somewhere else with different equipment. If you weld, you grind, and if you are using an...
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Read Article Welding Helmet for Glasses Wearers Guide
I wore glasses for most of my welding career before switching to contacts for shop days. Before I made that switch I went through four different welding helmets...
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Read Article Welding Helmet Buying Guide for Left-Handed Welders
Left-handed welders spend an inordinate amount of time adjusting to tools designed by and for a right-handed majority. Most of the weld process itself - sting...
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Read Article Welding Helmet Buying Guide for Overhead and Pipe Welding
Overhead welding and pipe welding are two of the most demanding contexts a welding helmet can encounter. Both put the welder in positions where standard helmet...
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Read Article Welding Helmet Guide for Plasma Cutting
The plasma torch fires and your first instinct is to look away. Not because the arc is exotic, but because most hobbyists have been told the wrong thing about s...