Welding Death - a warning on lung health

Over time, welders lung health is compromised slowly by breathing in fine metal particlesa nd strong gases from the fusion of metals and off-gasing.

Be vigalent and think about wearing a closed respirator filtration system air filtration system, while you weld to keep your lung health high. Lungs are very vulnerable in general.

Here is an article about a young welders death that sucked in the wrong bacteria and had bad lungs. It killed him fast.

"He was a welder, Dr. Musser noted, and welders are unusually susceptible to lung infections, perhaps because their lungs are chronically irritated by fine metal particles. So his fatal illness was most likely due to a confluence of events: welding, living in a rural area where the bacteria lived in the soil and happening to breathe in this toxin-containing species of bacteria."


Closed Welding Air Filtration System:  (SpeedGlas - one of the best welding helmets makers)
 Video: (actual use)   
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dFl___gSCA

Air Supply System:
   http://multimedia.3m.com/mws/mediawebserver?mwsId=66666UuZjcFSLXTtMxT_58T2EVuQEcuZgVs6EVs6E666666--&fn=Fresh_Air_GB.pdf


Clear Air Welding Station : air evacuation system

Ecological Products from Recycled Automobile Parts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-M4c5NMvAY&feature=endscreen&NR=1

Scrap Treasure Chest-A scavenger's dream

Today I went to a warehouse for Habitat for Humanities. It was a literal treasure chest. Everything from Home Depot, slightly used for scrap yard prices.
Some good metal scrap too, especially on heavy duty bolts, nuts, and washers.Have at it.

Next stop, scrap yards.










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Welding Questions from others

When you have no idea how to do something that is too advanced for you or want to save money, ask the pros and your friends on welding forums. Here is a popular one. People upload and share their project photos on this website forum too.

Welding Web Forum:

http://weldingweb.com/forumdisplay.php?f=10

Welding Project Ideas

Miller Welding MAchine Company has a HUGE collection of welding projects that their faithful customers have built. They have an incredible collection of projects in 5 different catagories. Really amazing and will let you know what is possible with welding.

Miller-Project Ideas:

http://www.millerwelds.com/interests/projects/ideagallery/in-the-shop/

Welding Project Table:

http://www.millerwelds.com/interests/projects/welding-table/

Back Yard Texas BBQ:

http://lincolnelectric.com/knowledge/articles/content/bbq.asp

Utility Trailer:

http://lincolnelectric.com/knowledge/articles/content/mower-trailer-project.asp

Books Filled with Welding Projects: several welding

https://ssl.lincolnelectric.com/foundation/store.asp?PID=16&cat=8

How the Pros Do It-NOMMA

NOMMA: National Ornamental and Miscellaneous Metal Association

NOMMA: http://nomma.org/dev/index.php

Do you want to know more about how to make Super Good stuff? Then you need to join up with and learn from NOMMA, the specialty metal working association of America. Their members are world-class metal art makers and fabricators. Many are high end artists that do amazing work in some of the biggest and most famous buildings in the world. NOMMA holds an annual international competition for Best Design of the Year. The entries are truly stunning in scale, scope and creativity. Whole fabricating shops will create projects just for this competition to be crown the " King of Metal". NOMMA publishes a quarterly magazine with special trade news from around the world. If you can get your hands on an old copy of the magazine or get a subscription you will be blown away. The design competiton isses are the best.
They hold classes for members all over the country and have an annual convention as well.




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Auto Paint Finishing-Pearlescent Paints

You can really make your work stand out and look refined if you use auto paint to finish it off. Go to an auto body paint store and get a spray canister that is precharged with air called a "Pre-Val". These canister can spray on any paint in a fine mist. These Pre-Val units are cheap and disposable. $5.00

http://www.prevalspraygun.com/around.htm


The car paint store will have hundreds of colors to choose from. Just pick one you like.




You can make your piece look really great if you tell them to add a clear-coat to your paint mix. It will look glossy with only one coat of paint. This is called 1-stage/single stage auto paint.
High quality paint jobs on exotic cars do 3-10 coats of paint and sanding between coats. These are called 3-stage paints.

You can make pearly, shimmering paint effects on your piece from an angle if you layer on the paint in steps. These are called Pearlescent paints. Have you ever seen a super tricked out car that shines in the sun with 2-3 different colors that perfectly blend together? This is how it is done, in layers.
























There is a special kind of auto paint for cars that has small, microscopic colored diamonds in it. These diamonds reflect different colored light to your eye, like a prism, giving the impression of multiple colors. You can get paint that will reflect 2 or even 3 different colors. These specialty paints are in their own class of paints, but are still used as auto paints. Several auto paint stores hold classes for car enthusiasts on how to use and apply these paints. Look up more information on Google on this topic under: "Pearlecent Paint"


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