Thread: What did you do on your Landy today?

Originally Posted by 67hardtop

Well on sunday I welded up some A frames, got horribly ill a couple hours later from breathing galv fumes. Thought I was gonna die. Any way I didnt. Today made the brackets up to mount the chassis onto A frames, now I have a rotisserie for the chassis. Looks good I think. Will try to add pics, not had much luck with this in the past......


What is wrong with this...says u need to login to attatch photos. I am bloody logged in. Please fix this moderators..

Cheers Rod

Ok try adding pics from my phone

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Originally Posted by 67hardtop

Well on sunday I welded up some A frames, got horribly ill a couple hours later from breathing galv fumes. Thought I was gonna die. Any way I didnt.

Before you weld Galvanized, drink a glass of full cream milk, I do this and can still type you this comment.

Yesterday, drove from Camden to home in the 2a. Left at 0630, and got here about 1430 after stopping for breakfast at Blaxland, to show my grand daughter the three sisters, and lunch at Mudgee. 384km all told, and I'll dip the tanks later to work out consumption.

No vehicle problems except speedo stopped working on the way down, and one drive flange started leaking, retightened it in Camden and it stayed tight. Slackened the handbrake adjuster in Camden as I suspected it was dragging slightly.

John

Funny u say that, I used to weld galv before and never seemed to have a problem with it but I also used to drink litres of iced coffee as well at the time, all day every day, so I spose it sorta protected me then. I rarely drink it nowadays. I'll drink milk next time I have to weld galve for sure. Thanks for the advice. :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

Cheers Rod

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Zinc fume fever won't kill you on small exposure, but could be bad long term. It's a heavy metal, and is vapourized during welding... so not the best to be breathing. A simple P2 mask will be perfect if you use it. I've heard of milk being taken to reduce the effects, but not sure how this actually works.

Workplaces are really clamping down on this kind of thing, one fab shop I know of has approx 20% of staff off per day due to sickness... you guessed it... all welding gal in a poorly ventilated workshop without usage enforcement of suitable PPE.

If you can hook up an old vacuum to the nozzle if your using a mig, it'll pull the fumes away. It's a fairly cheap way to make a fume extractor.
If your using a stick, set a fan up to blow it away from you, preferably out the door.

Yes, milk helps heaps, puts a lining in your stomach and helps stop the crap being ingested apparently. I used to weld up silo bases 8 hours a day for about 12 months and never got crook once except when I didn't have any milk. Also spent a fair bit of time welding up gal gates,, same.
At home I always forget to do what I believe is the right thing, and always feel a bit quest afterwards.

Ground off 4 long range fuel tank brackets I welded on a couple years ago, will be welding on the proper full length brackets to support the front of the fuel tanks. Now the chassis is on a rotisserie I can clean up some yukky welds that I did, not the best at vertical up/ down. Will re weld them betterererer this time..... I finally got the mig set up well this time. Using gasless wire this time coz cant afford gas. $187.00 per year bottle rental, in advance, and $79.00 for the gas. Beyond me for the amount I use it. We don't have the system they have in other states where u can buy the bottle and then pay for the refills . Anyway that's it for me. More welding tomorrow. Need to repair the spring hangers where loose bushes have worn the front hangers away on the sides. If I knew how to use that photobucket thing id post pics and start a build thread. Need to name the old girl first I think......Hmmmmmm what to call her with out swearing .


Cheers Rod

Originally Posted by Chops

If you can hook up an old vacuum to the nozzle if your using a mig, it'll pull the fumes away. It's a fairly cheap way to make a fume extractor.
If your using a stick, set a fan up to blow it away from you, preferably out the door.

Yes, milk helps heaps, puts a lining in your stomach and helps stop the crap being ingested apparently. I used to weld up silo bases 8 hours a day for about 12 months and never got crook once except when I didn't have any milk. Also spent a fair bit of time welding up gal gates,, same.
At home I always forget to do what I believe is the right thing, and always feel a bit quest afterwards.

You can get proper fume extraction torches for your mig. The balance is making sure you don't lose the shielding gas down the vacuum!

Lots of people swear by milk as a preventative, but the fine enters the body by the lungs not the stomach, so how it works has me beat!