Here's a list of things that have happened to me and things that I
learned since I started welding about 4-6 weeks ago.
1) Burnt my arm on a hot piece of metal
2) Burned my fingers on a hot piece of metal
3) Hot slag flew into my hair and burned while welding
4) Hot slag under my knee while kneeling and welding
5) Caught my cotton shirt on fire while using a cut-off wheel on my 4
1/2" grinder
6) Caught my workpiece on fire
Lessons
1) Learned not to wear shorts while welding (I know this one is kinda
obvious but my garage was 90+ degrees that day)
2) Steel that sits out in the sun for a while gets pretty hot
3) The arc of a mig welder is so bright and so white it looks almost
grey
Brian
- posted 18 years ago