[Rockhounds] No Magic?!? Welder's eye

[J. R. Hodel]

Don:

Say it isn't so!  Poor Tinkerbelle!  No Magic just seems so... ended, at least for the poor Tinkerbelles of the world.

If the  Kundalina Chakra moves better, that almost must be magic!   ;-)

Oh well, at least it's purple!  That's kind of a magic color.

Kidding, again,
JR




Axel,

I took a welding class once, I bet you've got UV lamp eye, not nearly as bad as from a real arc!  I was really careful about using the hood, and still got caught a little once in a while.

And even longer ago, I worked in a photo engraving shop, making line negatives and etching zinc plates with nitric acid.  We used a photo-sensitive emulsion that worked to setup when exposed to UV, and back in the day we used really really bright carbon arc lamps to expose the plates.

The photo engravings were usually of ladies at social events, but there was the occasional train wreck too.  The news stories were cast in molten lead; there were a couple of dozen pots full of liquid lead, one for each linotype.  Every once in a while I got a lapful of molten lead, and spent the rest of the shift picking bits of lead foil off my pants!  Exciting but mostly harmless, I think.  Ancient crafts and skills, casting letterpress newspapers for fun and profit!

What would OSHA think!

Keep on fluorescing!

JR





      

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