I wear plugs-the Howard Leight ones-everytime I spark up. not so much for noise,but get a hot spark in your ear! Now that's a pain that can't be ignored!
Wear hearing protecting for needle scaling and other such nasty sounds. Eye protection, far more important without wanting to dismiss hearing protection. It never ceases to amaze me how many people don't wear eye protect when grinding, cutting and even welding. I got a spark from a grinder on my eye back in 1995. Seeing the needle coming up to pick the fleck off my eye still bothers me almost 30years later. Guards and handle on grinders too, so many are stupid and take them off. You have a disc spinning at 9,000+ revs a minute and the risk of serious harm is high but still they throw away guards and handles. Nothing shows up a fool like a scar or something missing!
Metal in the eye is no joke. Same thing with wire wheels, i can’t imagine catching a wire in the eye 🫣. The hard part is it only takes one screw up to cause a life long injury, and there may not be any “fixing” it. Not worth it in the least.
It definitely does seem to have a genetic component. Putting the ppe on and off definitely sucks. I know they make plugs that allow whiter sounds through and loud sounds are blocked, but I am unsure as to how well they work. There have been a lot of lawsuits against them. I will have to investigate them to find out. They are also expensive for a pair, and I don’t like reusing plugs so that’s an issue too.
Hay Greg I heard that you can take them ear plugs and put one on your mig wire and use it for a swiper and that would keep some dust and dirt out of your mig cable I am new to mig
I use those 3M headsets. They’re really good. I use them with a lot of things. Angle grinders are horrible indoors particularly. Recently I bought a 6 x 48 grinder with a 12” wheel. Those are loud! More of a loud growl than a loud whine so it seems safer, but it’s not. My 14” cutoff saw is way too loud to use without protection. My mill is loud when cutting. Almost everything I have will damage hearing. I know there are guys who are way too “manly” to want to talk about it, but it’s their problem as they age.
14inch saws be it a dry cut or abrasive have to cause hearing damage in a short order, they are insanely loud. Angle grinders too, any higher speed one I have tends to be really bad. It’s much more pleasant to be able to hear at the end of the day (or in older age) then listen to loud tools for sure.
It's funny how you mentioned about hearing I've been working in the construction field 30 yrs running jackhammer a tile saw's concrete saws same thing loud concerts rock music car stereos and I think I got off lucky of having good hearing still...
There does seem to be a genetic component. Obviously age will cause a decline in hearing and vision, but some people seem to be far worse than others. The worst i have seen is people who were in the military and didn’t wear ear plugs. Sounds like you were like me, minimal hearing protection, around everything loud, and somehow lucked out lol. Definitely thankful for being able to still hear decent.
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I wear plugs-the Howard Leight ones-everytime I spark up. not so much for noise,but get a hot spark in your ear! Now that's a pain that can't be ignored!
It only takes once for that to happen to learn lol. That is terrible when it happens.
I'm deaf in one ear and can't see out of the other.
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Wear hearing protecting for needle scaling and other such nasty sounds. Eye protection, far more important without wanting to dismiss hearing protection. It never ceases to amaze me how many people don't wear eye protect when grinding, cutting and even welding. I got a spark from a grinder on my eye back in 1995. Seeing the needle coming up to pick the fleck off my eye still bothers me almost 30years later. Guards and handle on grinders too, so many are stupid and take them off. You have a disc spinning at 9,000+ revs a minute and the risk of serious harm is high but still they throw away guards and handles. Nothing shows up a fool like a scar or something missing!
Metal in the eye is no joke. Same thing with wire wheels, i can’t imagine catching a wire in the eye 🫣. The hard part is it only takes one screw up to cause a life long injury, and there may not be any “fixing” it. Not worth it in the least.
if I could go back in time 50 years, I'd treat my hearing better, one of my regrets in life....
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on that. Definitely motivates me to be smart about hearing protection.
it is also genetic related. Worse thing about PPE , is take it on and off to accommodate for different jobs in a small shop.
It definitely does seem to have a genetic component. Putting the ppe on and off definitely sucks. I know they make plugs that allow whiter sounds through and loud sounds are blocked, but I am unsure as to how well they work. There have been a lot of lawsuits against them. I will have to investigate them to find out. They are also expensive for a pair, and I don’t like reusing plugs so that’s an issue too.
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Haha I laughed at a cotton ball touching felt joke 😅.
Hay Greg I heard that you can take them ear plugs and put one on your mig wire and use it for a swiper and that would keep some dust and dirt out of your mig cable I am new to mig
That does work, but depending on the plug you will wear it out pretty quick lol
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You beat me to it 😄
Exactly 😅😅
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I use those 3M headsets. They’re really good. I use them with a lot of things. Angle grinders are horrible indoors particularly. Recently I bought a 6 x 48 grinder with a 12” wheel. Those are loud! More of a loud growl than a loud whine so it seems safer, but it’s not. My 14” cutoff saw is way too loud to use without protection. My mill is loud when cutting. Almost everything I have will damage hearing. I know there are guys who are way too “manly” to want to talk about it, but it’s their problem as they age.
14inch saws be it a dry cut or abrasive have to cause hearing damage in a short order, they are insanely loud. Angle grinders too, any higher speed one I have tends to be really bad. It’s much more pleasant to be able to hear at the end of the day (or in older age) then listen to loud tools for sure.
It's funny how you mentioned about hearing I've been working in the construction field 30 yrs running jackhammer a tile saw's concrete saws same thing loud concerts rock music car stereos and I think I got off lucky of having good hearing still...
There does seem to be a genetic component. Obviously age will cause a decline in hearing and vision, but some people seem to be far worse than others. The worst i have seen is people who were in the military and didn’t wear ear plugs. Sounds like you were like me, minimal hearing protection, around everything loud, and somehow lucked out lol. Definitely thankful for being able to still hear decent.
Yes been on the louder end of the work force, boiler and agriculture shops, but usually need hearing protection from middle and upper management....😅
Hearing protection is really important. It’s not a joke.
Yes I get it,, you obviously work in management...