Welding hood and fogging

[BikerDad]

Yesterday, I was using my new welder for the first time, along with using my newly completed welding station. It was nice and cool outside, and my welding helmet was fogging up.

What solutions, pray tell, have y'all found for this predicament?

 

[michaelf]

We use anti-fog glass cleaner

 

[crewchief888]

stop breathing...

 

[joe49]

Use your torch to heat the inside of the lens. You heat it holding it with a bare hand that way you will know how hot to get it. That is unless you like to burn yourself.

 

[BikerDad]

stop breathing...

Tried that, woke up about 3 minutes later, with my truck frame welded to the rebar in the slab, and my garage on fire.

I figure there's gotta be a better way.

 

[crewchief888]

Tried that, woke up about 3 minutes later, with my truck frame welded to the rebar in the slab, and my garage on fire.

I figure there's gotta be a better way.

well the fire shoulda warmed the garage up a little....


but seriously, when ive had this happen, it's really friggin cold in the garage, after a few minutes the hood/lens warms up, and the fogging goes away.

my avatar pic was taken in 10*F weather. no heat, and the doors closed

 

[brownbagg]

wear a dust mask

 

[trackwelder]

I have tried most of the lens-fog treatments and they never really worked well. I try to control my breathing and exhale down towards the vents really helps. Even then I would lose count how many times the lens needs to get wiped with a soft paper towel.

 

[Leadfot]

get a pc fan and a batterypack and a on off switch, make alittle duct that shoots the air to the glass and install the fan in the top of mask and put the batterypack under the glass so the mask dont become top Heavy.

 

[royce]

This is the only thing that worked for me, laying in the snow welding pipelines.
It is called a pancake hood.
Royce

 

[spooler41]

When I've had this problem I've used " Rainex " on the inner lens, with good results.

......... Jack

 

[jimgood]

Cat ****

 

[Man Cave]

I have used a dive snorkle under my hood on occasion. I've used Rain X too with good results. The snorkle sounds silly but worked well. I mostly do aircraft tube structures(Tig) with lots of tubing joints that require long welding periods.

 

[gungatim]

get a pc fan and a batterypack and a on off switch, make alittle duct that shoots the air to the glass and install the fan in the top of mask and put the batterypack under the glass so the mask dont become top Heavy.

this. I used to sell kits on ebay with a small fan, switch, and 9v battery. sold them for welding helmets and paintball helmets. works way better than any spray (and we tried them all, including spit).

any small CPU computer fan that runs on 12v will work on a 9v battery just fine.

I even tried to get the welding helmet company I worked for at the time to sell it as an add-on kit but they wanted to sell their $1000 fresh air supplied unit with filters instead...