new adventure-sick welder syndrome?
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 8:58 pm
http://www.anvilfire.com/iForge/tutor/safety3/index.htm
I got myself real sick the other day, just puttering around in the garage, building my worktable. It had happened a couple of times before, but I chalked it up to being lazy & not grinding the metal down properly-Tuesday night was as sick as I have ever been in my life- and that includes the old days of cornin' up ! Click on the link above and I had those same symptoms.
I was simply MIG welding mild steel with my LN-25 off the bobcat,shielding w/ C-25 @ 20cfh. Welded,cut,weld,cut-you know the drill-started not feeling great, chalked it up to the winter blues. Finished up, got worse.
Long story short (notice that whenever anyone says that, it's usually too late?) I was 80% recovered by am, went on into my other job. My wife who works as a nurse analyst and researches this sort of stuff for a living, sends me 2 links. The above one spooks me most and includes the info from the other link I had. I have usually took the time to clean galvanized real good, but didn't realize that a simple shielding gas/fumes would put me down, just another ghost story that would never happen to me-& good Lord willing, it won't!
Be careful dammit!
mister bobo
I got myself real sick the other day, just puttering around in the garage, building my worktable. It had happened a couple of times before, but I chalked it up to being lazy & not grinding the metal down properly-Tuesday night was as sick as I have ever been in my life- and that includes the old days of cornin' up ! Click on the link above and I had those same symptoms.
I was simply MIG welding mild steel with my LN-25 off the bobcat,shielding w/ C-25 @ 20cfh. Welded,cut,weld,cut-you know the drill-started not feeling great, chalked it up to the winter blues. Finished up, got worse.
Long story short (notice that whenever anyone says that, it's usually too late?) I was 80% recovered by am, went on into my other job. My wife who works as a nurse analyst and researches this sort of stuff for a living, sends me 2 links. The above one spooks me most and includes the info from the other link I had. I have usually took the time to clean galvanized real good, but didn't realize that a simple shielding gas/fumes would put me down, just another ghost story that would never happen to me-& good Lord willing, it won't!
Be careful dammit!
mister bobo