[Unixgeek] owns an Optrel welding hood, which contains a lens that auto-adjusts for various welding tasks. It stopped working properly, and this hood is “Non-Serviceable”, so he had to either ...

What about if everyone’s sold out? Well, if you want to watch the eclipse and you have an auto-darkening welding helmet, you can do what [daniel_reetz] did and hack something together with a ...

All forms of safety equipment are important, of course, but a good helmet can quite literally save your life, whether from a sudden dropped object or an errant spark off a welding torch.

your helmet might not cut it. Obtaining one that does could be hard to find. Only welding helmets with a shade number of 12 or higher allow for safe viewing of the sun, according to a 2017 NASA ...