Today, we will talk about tools of a locksmith workshop masters.
In particular about electric arc welding metals. The simplest and most reliable method of joining various metals, demanded both in the country house, home repair and in the garage when repairing a car and related work.
The older generation, who is now fifty to sixty years old, remembers very well the time when welding machines were mainly the fruit of their own creative process and weighed like a pound and a half weight.
But, Fortunately, sunk into oblivion those "difficult" times, when a trolley was needed to transport your welder, now the unthinkable appeared on sale many compact inverter welding machinesthat fit in a simple work bag.
Finally, technical progress has come down to me this summer (I removed my old, heavy one, my eyes would not have seen it, I always had a neck in soap when working), a transformer welder in the distant country angle. And looking at Aliexpress, I began to search new welding progress.
My eyes were scattered in different directions, but thoroughly searching, and listening to the advice of completely stupid people, I acquired a small, compact one, weighing just 2.5 kg inverter welding machine Micro ARC 200. The soul is still singing and dancing.
Short description this welding machine is given in the video clip below. In general, Super, now I do not cook metal, but I enjoy and sing - "... WE ARE NOT STOKERS, NOT CARPENTS ..." ... !!!
I leave the fans of inverter welding machines reference on Micro ARC 200Use who needs it AliExpress Welding Inverter Micro ARC 200
If anyone more powerful necessary, here's a version of Micro ARC 250 link AliExpress Welding Inverter Micro ARC 250
If anyone is interested, order delivery from the Russian Federation, cheaperthan from China.
You think this is a story, no, this is a prehistory.
And we'll talk today about protective equipment during welding, in particular about a protective welding mask, if you knew how my eyes hurt in '89, after working without a mask, as if someone had poured sand into their eyes and wept for almost a week. But let’s not talk about sad things, here progress does not stand still and the classic mask with a constant dimming filter has come to replace Super Chameleon Masks.
The principle of the mask, the Chameleon mask is triggered by a bright flash of an electric arc during welding. A light filter mask darkens the space in front of the eyes of an electric welder. And then it brightens for a comfortable view of the welded part. It is significantly improves welding accuracy and comfort. The speed of operation of the dimming filter is such that the eyes of the welder are absolutely protected from harmful radiation from the electric arc.
Great mask! But! Price, frankly, bites Highly.
As usual, having looked at Aliexpress and taking a walk through its expanses, I accidentally stumbled upon an automatic self-dimming filter, the price of the issue 250 rubles. By the way, he has fallen in price, reference per filter AliExpress Self-Darkening Filter
And the idea came to my vain head to combine the old classic mask for 150 rubles and this self-darkening filter. As a result, get a decent budget Chameleon mask for 400 rublesfor home use.
As always, quite a bit about safety, when I was a very young and inexperienced shooter, Wise people often told me to follow safety procedures and everything will be fine with you, or rather, even excellent! Since then, I have been fulfilling it and everything is fine and fine with me!
The background is finally finished, proceed to the manufacture of the necessary protective fixtures type mask "Chameleon".
To start by who is bigger likes to watch with his eyes, than to read, I suggest watching a video instruction for the manufacture of this welding mask Chameleon.
Video instruction for making a DIY Chameleon home mask.
We begin to manufacture. What do we need for manufacturing home option welding mask?
And we need the following.
Tools for making:
1. Hacksaw or electric jigsaw.
2. Scissors.
3. Measuring tool, ruler, caliper.
3. Descriptive tool, pencil or felt-tip pen.
4. Formative skin.
5. Inverter welding machine for testing our design link where you can buy cheap AliExpress Welding Inverter Micro ARC 200
6. Of course, our hands are not for boredom.
7. Drill or drilling machine.
8. The drill.
Materials:
1. Classic welding mask, with a fixed dimming filter. Desirable, inexpensive.
2. Automatically dimming filter link where you can buy cheap AliExpress Self-Darkening Filter
3. A small piece of plastic, with a thickness of 0.5 millimeters and above, within reasonable limits.
4. A bolt with a washer and a nut.
5. Plastic corner, small.
6. You can have a little hot glue, for greater certainty of the fixation strength of the self-darkening filter.
Production of a welding mask like "Chameleon":
1. Measure the dimensions of the fixing plate of the classic mask.
2. We mark the prepared piece of plastic into the size of the fixing plate, with a window for an automatically darkened filter.
3. We cut the marked plastic according to the marked sizes, we get a new fixing plate for our Chameleon mask.
4. We mark another plate to stop the darkening filter and close the gap between the filter and the lower part of the window of the welding mask.
5. We cut out a plastic corner for additional fixing above the specified clamping plate.
6. We drill a hole in the welding mask under the fixing angle.
7. Assemble the design, as shown in the video clip. For a more reliable fixation of the darkening filter, it can be grabbed onto the hot-melt glue. I did not need, fixing the filter was enough.
8. The welding mask for home use like Chameleon is ready. You can start the test.
9. The tests were successful, everything works.
And that’s all. Dear friends! Happy New Year! I wish you happiness and new interesting homemade in the coming year! All for the best, in this best of the Worlds, Friends!
