My wife gave me one from Northern Tool for Christmas . This is my first , so I have no basis for comparing , but I love it . Like you , my welds got a lot better when I started using it . One thing I found out this week , they do NOT like getting wet . Wind blew mine off the table in my carport in the storm earlier this week , it got rained on . Of course it landed lens down , so the water pooled inside . Got it dried out , and it still works ...
I could, but I did not want to.
i
$15 each? Man, you sure don't know how to shop. I've never seen them for over $5
I swear by 'em in the summer.
-- Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -- Howard Thurman
Yep, hope and change seem to be working out OK. I am not really "rich", but I can buy a miller helmet once, inctead of going through HF helmets every 2 years.
i
Nah. They're heavier, with smaller windows, etc.
-- Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -- Howard Thurman
I was thinking about the house that I won on auction. Two people lived there. Probably had a fine, modest life. Wife developed cancer, they had no money for treatments, borrowed 240,000 USD from a bank, and defaulted. Lost the house and everything. The bank also lost big time.
i
There's a webpage somewhere with a fellow documenting his replacement of the batteries in his helmet. Of course I can't find it at the moment....
Jon
How, for someone who knows how to weld, can the batteries be 'not replaceable'?
Reminds me of the "Center for Natural Health"; I'm just completely AMAZED that these folk have been able to centralize 'natural health'.
Thanks, but I confirmed that it's window size, not head size, that is the issue.
And while the Miller window is larger than HF's; it's not that much so...
Yeah, "non-replaceable" to me just means a little more determination is needed unless the works is potted in an epoxy block. Most objectionable feature was the controls being inside, had to take the thing off to change anything.
HF has several grades of helmets, usability rises with the price. Last one I got ran around $40 with coupon and sale price, has a replaceable battery and outside controls, window was at least twice the size vertically of the cheapy. No doubt the pros will find faults with it, but it works OK for the infrequent stick and TIG sessions I use it for. HF had replacement cover glasses for it, anyway. Bought several, haven't had to use one yet.
Stan
Might have been me.
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