dumbass question #2

[AAP]

Ok, when welding, you are not suppose to look at the arc as it will burn your eyes.

What if you are standing 30 feet away from someone welding. Will it still damage your retina?

 

[jh1]

Yes it can... never look at the arc... it is brighter than the sun...

 

[Seashell]

Much jibberish welder-talk here but I believe the answer is somewhere in the chart..
http://www.aws.org/wj/dec02/feature.html

And a few different people's perspectives:
http://www.aws.org/cgi-bin/mwf/topic_show.pl?id=2707

 

[AAP]

Yes it can... never look at the arc... it is brighter than the sun...

Dude, how can anything be brighter than the sun?

 

[Robert Jan]

30 feet isn't that much. 100 feet is more like it

 

[Becoming]

I accidentally looked at one once from about 20ft (the dude was not looking out for anyone but himself obviously)

I got a pretty good spot in my vision for a while but it went away...

 

[wutangnomo]

Thirty feet is not all that far away and can still damage your eyes in the event of no obstruction... ie smoke, etc. However, with distance the intensity of the light does decrease.

 

[jh1]

Dude, how can anything be brighter than the sun?

Don't know. That's what I have been told.

I would imagine, if true, it is only true based on the fact that your face is only a few feet from it.

I.E. you are millions of miles from the sun so it's intensity, by the time it reaches you, isn't as much as the welding arc a few feet from your face.

Just don't look at it....

 

[coverguy]

i wouldn't risk it.

 

[Evil_Frisky]

Dont look into the light!

It will burn you eyes, I have never had it happen to me but I have been told that it feels like a sunburn on the eyes or even salt in the eyes. You even have to be careful not to subconsciuosly (perphial vision) look at it.

 

[Becoming]

Dont look into the light!

It will burn you eyes, I have never had it happen to me but I have been told that it feels like a sunburn on the eyes or even salt in the eyes. You even have to be careful not to subconsciuosly (perphial vision) look at it.

That is how I looked at it - I was like - hey is that dumbass welding - someone is going to get blinded by that shit.... but I could not resist that shit... I HAD to look at it...

LOL

 

[onerepmaximum]

As a side note, you shouldn't put your tongue on a flag pole when the temperature is much below freezing.

 

[Evil_Frisky]

As a side note, you shouldn't put your tongue on a flag pole when the temperature is much below freezing.

I couldn't resist I HAD to lick it

 

[supersizeme]

No disrespect, but y'all are a bunch of pussies. I have these special microscope goggles like jewelers wear that I like to put on after I run a cheese grater across my corneas and then squirt lemon juice into my eyes. I like to hold up the welder arc with an eclipse going in the background and stare for hours.

 

[Dial_tone]

How do you weld without looking at it?

 

[jh1]

No disrespect, but y'all are a bunch of pussies. I have these special microscope goggles like jewelers wear that I like to put on after I run a cheese grater across my corneas and then squirt lemon juice into my eyes. I like to hold up the welder arc with an eclipse going in the background and stare for hours.

But you are a banana... how is that relavant?

 

[the nature boy]

If stevie wonder can do it, so can I.

 

[Evil_Frisky]

How do you weld without looking at it?

Your kidding right LMAO

There are shields that the welders wear but if you are in the area and don't have a shield you can be burned by the arc.

I went talk to one of the welders and he said that 30' is really far. This will more happen if you are within a few feet.

 

[RADAR]

Your kidding right LMAO

There are shields that the welders wear but if you are in the area and don't have a shield you can be burned by the arc.

I went talk to one of the welders and he said that 30' is really far. This will more happen if you are within a few feet.

Any length will damage your eyes if you look long enough.
I have several floaters(burn spots) for looking at the arc too long when i was a kid.


RADAR

 

[Evil_Frisky]

Any length will damage your eyes if you look long enough.
I have several floaters(burn spots) for looking at the arc too long when i was a kid.


RADAR

You mean you actually took your eyes off that bowl of chow? HEHEHE

I am sure it would but I believe he was talking about the whole perphial vision thing happening.

 

[Dial_tone]

Your kidding right LMAO

There are shields that the welders wear but if you are in the area and don't have a shield you can be burned by the arc.

I went talk to one of the welders and he said that 30' is really far. This will more happen if you are within a few feet.

well excuse me, Jennifer Beals.

 

[Evil_Frisky]

well excuse me, Jennifer Beals.

You promised you wouldn't tell! welder by day dancer by night

 

[alien amp pharm]

That is how I looked at it - I was like - hey is that dumbass welding - someone is going to get blinded by that shit.... but I could not resist that shit... I HAD to look at it...

LOL

So that explains why your posts aren't funny at all.....It's because you can't see what you are typing!

I understand now.

 

[curling]

I have been burned my eyes twice. It sux you wake up at 12 midnight and it feels like acid was just poured on your eyes. Potato skins do help until you get to the er. Don't chance it the arc light is not worth the pain.

 

[ChefWide]

The good part: if you are close enough, and happen to wear contacts, the arc can evaporate the moisture between your eye and the lens and 'weld' the lens to your eye.

Cool.

 

[curling]

The good part: if you are close enough, and happen to wear contacts, the arc can evaporate the moisture between your eye and the lens and 'weld' the lens to your eye.

Cool.

Very cool two types of welding going on at once. Key is don't look the light. Kinda of reminds of me of cheech and chongs next movie when red put his hand in the light and chong said don't do that then he did it. MAn, I wish those two would get back together.

 

[ChefWide]

Very cool two types of welding going on at once. Key is don't look the light. Kinda of reminds of me of cheech and chongs next movie when red put his hand in the light and chong said don't do that then he did it. MAn, I wish those two would get back together.

Tommy is in Aluminum Foil Hat Land.

 

[bran987]

Your kidding right LMAO

There are shields that the welders wear but if you are in the area and don't have a shield you can be burned by the arc.

I went talk to one of the welders and he said that 30' is really far. This will more happen if you are within a few feet.

hahaha DT a girl just told you how to weld!
















I didn't know either.

 

[wutangnomo]

Any length will damage your eyes if you look long enough.
I have several floaters(burn spots) for looking at the arc too long when i was a kid.


RADAR

Yes but I believe the intensity of the light rays is inversely proportional to distance.

 

[Nathan]

I remember in grade school when there was a solar eclipse and the teacher told everyone not to stare directly at it. There was one kid who did do it anyway in an attempt to piss the teacher off. That kid died a few years ago in a terrible koala bear attack, or so I imagine.