How to Use Welding Safety Hoods

Video Transcript

"On behalf of expert village I'm Terry and today I'm going to show you how to use a welder. Okay we're going to talk about hoods now. This is just your basic hood, a hood in a basic model will run anywhere between twenty-five, forty, fifty dollars. It has a lens in it, it's just a removable lens, a glass lens the shades go from like 9 to 14 depending on the darkness or the sensitivity of your eyes. Has a sweat band in it you can adjust it to your head size and you can adjust how fast it falls or how easy it falls. This falls fairly easy and I can adjust it a little bit more. So that's your basic hoods, that's ones you find just about anywhere. This is a more expensive hood it's called an auto darkening lens. What it means by auto darkening is you can see through it and when you strike your weld then it automatically goes dark on the inside it has a shade setting instead of buying different lenses in different shades you can actually go from nine to thirteen to make the lens dark or whatever your preference is. On sensitivity, you can set the sensitivity as to how bright a light will start it sometimes you know even a light in the shop if you have it too sensitive. Then there's a delay, what you use the delay for is once you start an arc you might want it to delay for a second or two you can adjust that. But the great thing about these hoods is you don't have to flip your hood up and down up and down to see where your start and your stop is you can just start and stop without removing your hood at all."