Choosing A Welding Helmet That Works For You

Good review. I have never heard of some of those brands

Watching this was like watching a highschool kid give a talk on something they were supposed to research and didn't do the homework until the morning of.... Or 5 minutes before class.

this is good for covid protection. protection level 90% 9/10 doctors and scientist recommended.

I had a $50 amazon antra hood for my mig welding needs at work. I don’t weld that much as a auto technician. I bought a lincoln 3350 hood for my personal tig welding side jobs and I wish I would have bought it a lot sooner. Ditched the cheap antra so now I use the 3350 for both mig and tig. The color is a lot better and its more clear too. Worth the extra $250

The Böhler Guardian 62 you showed does have 4(!) sensors. It has an excellent true color lens. It provides a very clear view of the welding process and doesn't flash you when doing TIG welding with very low Amps. Here in Europe it only costs about $140! I bought mine three years ago and can 100% recommend it. I see no real benefit in the helmets with a large field of view. The 62mm by 98mm of the Böhler is more than sufficient.

I purchased an optrel panoramaxx clt and i love it. Super huge seamless panoramic display and lots off cool features to boast as well as an amazing true color display

I always recommend the Lincoln 3350.ive tried the sentinel,optrel and Miller helmets and the Lincoln was the best for the money.

Surprised you didn’t mention the fibre-metal tiger hood with flip up lens. In the real world probably the most widely used hood. About $40 dollars plus a $80 to $100 auto darkening lens, if you want a auto darkening lens. . Easy to find and very economical clear lens and non auto darkening lens provided on most jobs. If you show up as a new welder in a shop or construction job with a hood with flames all over it, you better be one hell of a welder

I use the Speedglas. 8-10hrs a day, 5 days a week. Had the same one for over 10 years. Never had a better hood.

Just remember that the fancy helmets get wrecked just as easily as the the cheapos. Also another thing to take into consideration is if your employer is paying for your clear lenses. If your overhead welding or gouging youll chew em up real quick. I like the Sellstrom flip up 2x4 1/4 lense (45$). All three polycarbonate lenses replace for less then a dollar. Then i use my Arc One HD Single 12 shade(120$) if im welding and just a hunk of glass for gouging. Those are Canadian pesos!

I'd love to see a video comparing the view through the lens of those helmets, or even better the flagship of the manufacturers in the current model year.

Love the show guys, as usual.

I been wearing a tractor supply Hobart auto lens for awhile. Just landed a new tig welding aluminum career that dad's been doing for 32 years. He told me to spend the extra on the Miller infinity and I did. It should be here tomorrow and for $400 I hope it's great. After seeing all these reviews I'm pretty excited about getting it

Thank's Jeff still looking for the write hood , this video will help . Cheers . :)

I miss Red Beard.

I have the Miller digital elite and love it. Great helmet.

Good review I never heard of some other brands

I'm running: - kowax 820 ARC+ Comfy, nice real colour lens but kinda big so can't reach everywhere with it, backlight can be a struggle sometimes and also smoke gets under it easier. - speedglas 9002 less comfy than kowax but lens are pretty awesome (I really wanna try natural color lens), breathe out vent holes are nice when it's colder because I'm not breathing on lens. And as was mentioned by Ray it's light and slick so I use it when I'm getting a lot of backlight or can't fit with kowax somewhere. - pipeliner hood with no.9 glass sometimes things get out of hand and keep flashing myself when using auto darkening lens. For this case I have good old mask with passive lens (no.9 works for me with TIG). HF starts are not that easy first but when You get a hang of it it's all good. Right now I'm looking for something between kowax and speedglas but the pipeliner will stay. And not to forget, thanks a lot for yet another very informative video.

I start class in May and have been looking at a Miller that I realllly like a lot

EST 19XX sticker on helmet is liit. Really nice review. Glad to know something new.