The Home Machinist!

I need some. Anyone have recommendations? I've looked at a few online and think I would benefit from having the flip-up type, but I've also seen complaints about comfort and flip-up lens breakage.

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GWRdriver
Nashville TN

ill have to admit, i dont normally wear shades for brazing, but when i do, i use wear jackson 170sb headgear with a #3 faceshield.

I have a couple of those headgears laying around, with clear, #3 and #5 shade that i also use for grinding and torchcutting. they are quite comfortable and protect your entire face.

Me too......
And....a lot more friendly with us folks who have to wear glasses. I have several varieties of goggles, flip up, hard shell, soft shell, hinge up .....all gathering dust. I prefer the full face shield.

Bill

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Today's solutions are tomorrow's problems.

Great. That never occurred to me, . . . and I have a couple of Jackson headgears already.

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GWRdriver
Nashville TN

Ditto, the tinted full sheild. Hard to keep them clean and unscratched in storage tho. I use an old pillow case to shelf it.

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Big Dave

Be Alert! The world needs more Lerts.

It never occur to me to wear shaded goggle for silver brazing until I read this thread.

I use a straight propane torch (no air) and do wear clear protection.

Is it really necessary? Propane flame does not seem to have a lot of UV.
How you handle color perception when heat treating?

On a different note, I was silver brazing in sunlight and never saw the red color but the solder melted and flowed well.

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Mauro Gaetano
in Austin TX

the other consideration is with a full shield your eyes and skin are protected if something pops

Great idea!

Thanks, friend!

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--Bob

Gorton NC mill converted to manual to be converted to CNC.

I do not think you need shaded lenses for normal heat treating if all you are heating to is 1500 degrees. anything above that i was always told that you needed tinted eye protection. I should have listened to my own advice because i ended up burning out both lenses in my eyes. they are replaced now but they are never the same as your own God given eyes.

I often braze and routinely silver solder. To me these are two different procedures using different fillers. I never use any type of goggle when silver soldering as the material doesn't attain any color change and you couldn't see the filler flow with a shaded lens.

When I braze, I am using a O/A torch and brass filler rod with flux. The parent metal isn't melted but is brought to a red heat before applying the filler rod. This usually requires some type of shaded eye protection...I use the lens shade and headgear noted in some of the above posts.

So.....in my shop, silver soldering is a whole different animal that brazing, you braze with brass and silver solder with silver solder.

Stuart

The best brazing goggles I have found are the glasses the doctor "hands out" after a cataract operation. Doc said they block all the damaging rays of the sun and would be fine for either brazing or gas welding. I am not sure about cheep but the insurance company paid for most of mine and I got a couple of pairs.

Getting in a bit late on this...

Personally, I prefer full-face protection for welding/brazing; I'm ugly enough already without adding burn scars to the mix.

However, I came across these a while back; I intend to order a pair for blacksmithing work, but haven't yet -- and I may be glad of that, since I think I'm going to need the "+2" close-up lenses.

http://www.visionusa.biz/product.php-p_id=27.htm

If anyone out there gets a set, please post your impressions; I will, when I get mine.

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Pete in NJ