I'm looking for an auto darkening welding helmet but I don't know which ones are good or what features are worth having. I only weld
occasionally, all mig 160a, I would like to grind with it on also.I had a look on the web/bay and found
4 FUNCTION SOLAR AUTO DARKENING WELDING HELMET MASK on eBay (end time 12-Feb-11 22:09:02 GMT)
And also
Mask2
So comments please with recommendations if people have recently bought and used them.
I don't want to pay more than £60/70 but this is the locust site so less is better still
Cheers Pete
[Edited on 5/2/11 by watsonpj]
I bought a cheapie like the first one you linked and it's been very good for the past 3 or 4 years 
Didn't have a grinding setting on mine which would be very handy!
I got one when they first came out, which cost over £100. Ive still got it and love it.
Ive also had the cheaper ones, and they are a bit more temperamental, but still good.
I've got one from machine mart around £60, found it very good
Got a cheepy one on Ebay and it is most excellent. Would never do without now.
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Originally posted by bitsilly
Got a cheepy one on Ebay and it is most excellent. Would never do without now.
Thanks guys looks like I'll go with the cheaper one then
I had a similar helmet to the ebay one, which died after about 4 years. The only things not to like about it were the adjustment on the outside of
the helmet could get inadvertently changed and it was not as sensitive to the arc as the new one I replaced it with, even though the new one only has
2 sensors as well.
I replaced it with one of these:
http://www.unimig.com.au/catalogue_product.asp?product=84&category=16&subcategory=41
Which is about A$150 in Australia all the controls are on the inside. which is good and as I said its way more sensitive to the arc then the last one.
i got a cheapy of ebay with settings button on the onside. Its been brilliant. Only crap thing was the adjuster for the head strap which fell to bits within a week, i just tapped it up to fit my head and been fine ever since