"Jim Elbrecht" wrote in message
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Looks interesting but doesn't it get sweaty and fog up inside?

Sweaty, yes-- but I prefer sweat to blood and mud. Foggy, no. I
use a bottle of anti-fog that we bought for my son when he was a
hockey goalie. Rubbing alcohol will work, but it gets me high.

I've never had much luck with anti-fog stuff. What do you use?

Someplace I saw a guy run a compressor hose into his for positive
pressure and cool air. I really don't have enough air for
sandblasting [shoot 30 seconds- wait 20. . repeat] so I've never
tried it. For inside work, I can stand the sweat for longer than I
can keep my arms up and head back.

Sounds like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. (-: Good idea, though. I know
I've seen something like that with a fan mounted in the hood and a battery
pack to power it. That might be easier than being tethered to a compressor
hose.

My face
shield with the Arab Spaceman towel attachment (TM - patent pending)
doesn't
offer a lot of head protection, but it's usually my eyes that I am most
concerned about. The face shield appears to offer double or even triple
the
viewing area of the sandblasting hood.

Good point-- But I'm usually concentrating on a pretty small area
when I'm wearing it.

Makes sense. Still, after DerbyDad described how he nearly gored himself,
I'm all for as much peripheral vision as I can get.

Still, for 20 bucks I'll probably pick one up the next time I go to HF.
I
spent $400 there in one visit, but they cut my catalogs off three months
later.

I don't think I've ever seen a 'catalog'. I get their [20 page?]
fliers weekly. I might have hit $400 once-- but $1-200 is a 'big'
day for me.

I should have said flyer - I think they're 20 or so pages, tabloid style.

That's probably not a good model to follow, marketing-wise. I think
I can request them at their site, but almost every other vendor I know
likes
to keep marketing to people that spend a lot of money in one visit. From
what I saw, the average sale was between $20 and $100.

I stopped in for a $6 item last week- spent $40- and was thinking on
the way out that I got off cheap. Damn candy stores.

Mine's far enough away that I never just go for one item with Home Depot 3
blocks away. I saw a similar propane torch for $60 in HD that I got at HF
for $20. So on stuff like that, I make the trek and obliterate the savings
by overspending on things I really don't need. $400 was a big ticket for me
because I bought an flexible inspection camera (for about half of what HD
was selling a cosmetically "purtier" one that looked like the same basic
guts inside). And a digital caliper, and a torch, and quick disconnects for
the hoses, and some screwdrivers, and a tweezer set, and a $3 meter and
loads and loads of other $5 to $10 stuff I can't recall.

--
Bobby G.