Welding tips hints tricks an how too

[TOMO 24,876]

57 minutes ago, tatsblisters said:

I have always wondered what the health issues are with welding though i would think with modern masks and breathing aids it would be limited. I remember years ago when i worked on demolition and I had the chance to be taught oxytetracycline burning but declined as every so often the burners had to have blood tests to see if there was lead in the blood due to fumes breathed in. 

Funny ain't it how we become more concerned for our health as we get older...I bet when you were young working down the pit you just cracked on....

This job I do now we sometimes have to go in lofts and remove insulation...I won't even pop me head in now without my breathing gear on....at one time I would have just cracked on

[tatsblisters 7,950]

3 minutes ago, TOMO said:

Why am I not surprised they were cowboys...from my home town..lol

Forgot the owners name now mate. I know they got a big fine just before I started with them as a lad got killed on one of their job's due to negligence. I had months on a job on the big Boots complex in Nottingham when they gutted the big office site.

[tatsblisters 7,950]

2 minutes ago, TOMO said:

Funny ain't it how we become more concerned for our health as we get older...I bet when you were young working down the pit you just cracked on....

This job I do now we sometimes have to go in lofts and remove insulation...I won't even pop me head in now without my breathing gear on....at one time I would have just cracked on

Same here mate some of the shitty and dusty places I have worked the worst being a factory called Toyoda Gosie in Rotherham that made rubber seals for the motor car industry and every time I get a chest infection I think feck me has my past working life come back to bite me in the arse with a lung disease. 

[DIDO.1 20,875]

31 minutes ago, TOMO said:

Funny ain't it how we become more concerned for our health as we get older...I bet when you were young working down the pit you just cracked on....

This job I do now we sometimes have to go in lofts and remove insulation...I won't even pop me head in now without my breathing gear on....at one time I would have just cracked on

I always try to mask up in lofts, sometimes I forget and fckin hell can you feel it rest of the day

[tatsblisters 7,950]

1 minute ago, DIDO.1 said:

I always try to mask up in lofts, sometimes I forget and fckin hell can you feel it rest of the day

I always feel for them poor individuals who have lost their lives mostly women in the past who handled work clothes from their partners that was covered in asbestos dust and unbeknowing to them they were handling their death centance in washing their work clothes. 

[mC HULL 10,440]

2 hours ago, tatsblisters said:

I have always wondered what the health issues are with welding though i would think with modern masks and breathing aids it would be limited. I remember years ago when i worked on demolition and I had the chance to be taught oxytetracycline burning but declined as every so often the burners had to have blood tests to see if there was lead in the blood due to fumes breathed in. 

i doubt a lot use any masks mate hot sweaty and things in the way you have to remember some gases are heavier then air so in confined spaces you need to vent accordingly 

[mC HULL 10,440]

2 hours ago, TOMO said:

Funny ain't it how we become more concerned for our health as we get older...I bet when you were young working down the pit you just cracked on....

This job I do now we sometimes have to go in lofts and remove insulation...I won't even pop me head in now without my breathing gear on....at one time I would have just cracked on

i don’t think rock wool glass wool is to bad tomo i know lads for decades rip sawing it all day everyday no masks on some 60 now still fine 

[gnipper 5,964]

1 hour ago, tatsblisters said:

I always feel for them poor individuals who have lost their lives mostly women in the past who handled work clothes from their partners that was covered in asbestos dust and unbeknowing to them they were handling their death centance in washing their work clothes. 

My missus great nan had asbestosis from washing her husbands work gear and her daughter and grandkids were there at the time too so could have knacked 3 generations. 

[tatsblisters 7,950]

1 minute ago, gnipper said:

My missus great nan had asbestosis from washing her husbands work gear and her daughter and grandkids were there at the time too so could have knacked 3 generations. 

Terrible mate. The chap I have mentioned on hear before who flies eagles lost his wife due to when she worked in a laundrette years ago in York handling work clothes day in day out when launderettes were popular. I asked him about claiming compensation but it was that long ago and the laundrette does not operate anymore and they would be no way it could be proved. 

[tatsblisters 7,950]

57 minutes ago, mC HULL said:

i don’t think rock wool glass wool is to bad tomo i know lads for decades rip sawing it all day everyday no masks on some 60 now still fine 

Think it's a bit like smoking some folks can smoke all their lives and not suffer any health implications same as some of the old miners I have known who had 50 odd years down the pit and lived well into their 80s never succumbing to any of the problems caused by dust. I think I would lower the risk by wearing a mask same as I don't smoke. 

[steve t 832]

14 hours ago, mC HULL said:

what did you work on steve 

Last 15 years been self employed so anything that came through the door, front gates to farm buildings. Before that was beam bashing for a good few years funnily enough I loved that seeing a few ton of steel fabbed after a few days.  Before that worked for a specialist stair company doing internal staircases and also fire escapes and I served my time before that at a general fab shop

[TOMO 24,876]

2 hours ago, gnipper said:

My missus great nan had asbestosis from washing her husbands work gear and her daughter and grandkids were there at the time too so could have knacked 3 generations. 

Yeh but lofts are full of just general dust...also we are usually clearing lofts that are contaminated with rodent shit piss...or pigeon shit...

Ment to quote mchull post

Edited March 28 by TOMO

[Arry 18,605]

When I was on Maintenance in a factory I had to go around and check all know Asbestos and log it if it had been disturbed. Some of  this you would not think were Asbestos like foot tiles old ones that looked like Lino that had become brittle and broken. Also old fuse boxes and old Asbestos rope around ovens. Artex ceiling plaster never sand that. Lads if in doubt wear a mask I was told when I did an Asbestos course. Ive known lads that have gone from it some that worked for electric company's, reckon it was taking storage heaters apart.

Cheers Arry

Edited March 28 by Arry

[forest of dean redneck 11,190]

Feck the Chinese shite off get him a Clarke welder they ain’t expensive 

also not as much in demand but brazing is good , I use everything from magnetic coils to oxy acetylene torches .

[gnipper 5,964]

2 hours ago, tatsblisters said:

Terrible mate. The chap I have mentioned on hear before who flies eagles lost his wife due to when she worked in a laundrette years ago in York handling work clothes day in day out when launderettes were popular. I asked him about claiming compensation but it was that long ago and the laundrette does not operate anymore and they would be no way it could be proved. 

If I remember rightly she was still waiting for a compensation payout for her husbands death due to asbestos when she died. She didn't die from her asbestosis though network rail killed her.