Whether you possess extensive experience in welding or are venturing into your initial welding project, it is of utmost importance to give due priority to eye protection during welding or torching activities. Sensibly, safeguarding your eyes is an indispensable aspect of such tasks. Should you find yourself seeking enhanced safety eyewear or a dependable option tailored to your welding requirements, rest assured that this guide is designed to furnish you with a preliminary understanding. It will shed light on the diverse lens options accessible for ensuring effective eye protection throughout the welding process.
When it comes to welding safety eyewear, there are a variety of lenses available to cater to different needs and requirements. Each lens is designed to provide effective protection for the eyes during welding activities. Whether you’re brazing stainless steel, aluminum, or bronze, or working on welding projects involving various materials, there are specific lenses tailored to enhance visibility and minimize hazards. Plus, with different shade options available, welders can select the lens that best suits their specific welding applications and preferences.
At Phillips Safety, we understand the importance of providing a variety of options for welding and torching eye protection. That’s why we offer a wide range of lenses that cater to different needs and requirements, ensuring that welders can find the perfect lens to enhance visibility and minimize hazards during their welding projects. With our extensive selection of lenses and shade options, we are committed to providing effective eye protection for welders of all experience levels.
EXPLORING PHILLIPS SAFETY’S RANGE OF WELDING AND TORCHING LENSES
From standard shades to specialized lenses, the options for welding and torching eye protection are extensive. These lenses offer specific features like blocking harmful radiation, reducing glare, enhancing visual clarity, and providing maximum protection. Additionally, they come in various shapes and sizes, ensuring a comfortable fit for different welding and torching applications. Phillips Safety offers a wide availability of such a diverse range, allowing welders and torch operators to find the perfect lenses that suit their specific requirements, prioritizing both safety and visual performance. Learn below about the different types of lenses available for welding and torching eye protection and their respective characteristics.
The Green Welding lens is a premium glass lens renowned for its exceptional quality. Also known as Athermal, it is crafted with the utmost attention to optical excellence. This lens is a testament to superior craftsmanship, as it boasts remarkable durability, providing not only true HD optics but also unparalleled clarity and maximum protection. At Phillips Safety, the Athermal lens is available in a wide range of shades—from 4 to 14. You can choose from various shapes, including circular, small rectangular, and large rectangular, ensuring a comfortable fit for your specific requirements.
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Green Welding Lens | Circular 50 mm
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Green Welding Lens | Small 2 x 4.25
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Green Welding Lens | Large 4.5 x 5.25
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The Cobalt Blue lens, also known as Neotherm, is specifically engineered for optimal use in observing furnace and molten metal operations. It finds widespread application in various industries such as foundries, steelworks, glassworks, fiberglass and ceramics plants, as well as in brazing, torching, and other settings where eye protection is essential during high-temperature processes. At Phillips Safety, Neotherm lenses are available in shades 4, 5, 6, and 8. These lenses effectively absorb UV radiance and harmful infrared emissions within the range of 780 to 2000nm. With a temperature tolerance ranging from 1,290 to 1,800° Celsius, they ensure reliable protection.
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Cobalt Blue Metal Working Filter Lens | Large 4.5 x 5.25
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Cobalt Blue Metal Working Filter Lens | Small 2 x 4.25
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Cobalt Blue Metal Working Filter Lens | Circular 50 mm
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Phillips Safety’s Gold Coated welding lenses are renowned as the benchmark for top-quality welding lenses available in the market. These gold lenses not only offer the same exceptional benefits as green lenses, including protection from all three types of radiation encountered in welding, but they also provide an additional advantage—90% infrared reflection. This feature effectively reduces heat exposure to the welder’s eyes, resulting in reduced eye strain.
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Solar Eclipse Gold Shade 14 Welding Glass – Large
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Gold Welding Lens | Large 4.5 x 5.25
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Gold Welding Lens | Small 2 x 4.25
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Furthermore, Phillips Safety also offers Alloweld glass lenses, specifically engineered to provide exceptional eye protection during welding and brazing activities involving stainless steel, aluminum, and bronze. They are well-suited for a wide range of welding applications, including refrigerator units, boats, cars, radiators, and aircraft. Crafted with premium German glass, these lenses offer distortion-free clarity for enhanced visibility. They are designed to minimize sodium flare while maximizing color contrast, enabling welders to accurately gauge the temperature of the welded material and identify any puddling. Available in an emerald green color, they offer four different shade options: 4, 5, 6, and 8, allowing welders to select the ideal shade for their specific requirements.
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AlloWeld Welding Lens | Small 2 x 4.25
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AlloWeld Gold Coated Welding Lens | Large 4.5 x 5.25
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AlloWeld Gold Coated Welding Lens | Small 2 x 4.25
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Moving on, Super Blue Drop-In welding lenses serve a crucial role in safeguarding the eyes against three wave energies: visible light, ultraviolet light (UV), and infrared light (IR). While visible light is easily perceptible and can cause discomfort, UV and IR are invisible yet hazardous. Conventional welding glasses with green filters are insufficient in adequately blocking out the harmful colors associated with visible light, particularly the yellow and orange hues emitted during flares. To effectively protect against these colors, blue polycarbonate lenses are essential additions to standard welding glasses. However, it’s important to note that the blue drop-in filters should be used in conjunction with the green filters, as the blue lenses alone cannot provide adequate protection. When working around yellow and orange colors, simply insert the blue drop-in filters behind the regular lenses. Care should be taken to prevent spattering, as it can erode the polycarbonate material of the blue lenses. By employing this dual-filter approach, welders can ensure comprehensive eye safety during welding operations.
Last but not least, the Super Magenta Drop-in Lenses is a step up in performance, as they offer enhanced eye protection compared to the Blue Drop-in Lenses. While the Blue lenses effectively block harmful yellow and orange colors, they are not as efficient in reducing glare. In contrast, the Super Magenta Drop-in Lenses significantly diminish glare, thanks to their acrylic composition. Not only do these lenses minimize glare, but they also enhance visual clarity and color perception. Similar to the Blue lenses, it’s important to note that the Super Magenta lenses are intended to be used in conjunction with your regular welding shades. When working in high-risk environments like welding areas, optimal vision is crucial, and the Super Magenta Drop-in Lenses ensure exceptional clarity. Therefore, if you anticipate encountering significant glare, these lenses are a must-have addition to your eyewear. Remember, these lenses should never be used alone, as doing so can result in potential permanent eye damage.
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Super Blue Drop-In Welding Lens | Small 2 x 4.25
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Super Magenta Drop-In Welding Lens | Circular 50 mm
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Super Magenta Drop-In Welding Lens | Small 2 x 4.25
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OPTIMAL EYE PROTECTION AND CLARITY WITH WELDING GLASSES
Besides the aforementioned welding and torching lenses, Phillips Safety also offers an extensive selection of welding glasses that combine optimal eye protection with enhanced visual clarity. Our welding glasses are meticulously crafted using high-quality materials to ensure durability and reliability in the most demanding welding environments.
Phillips Safety understands the importance of catering to individual preferences and specific welding needs, and that’s why we offer welding glasses with a choice of lens colors. Our welding glasses are available in both green and cobalt blue lenses, allowing welders to select the tint that best suits their visual preferences and provides the desired level of eye protection. Whether you opt for the classic green or the specialized cobalt blue lens, you can trust that our welding glasses will deliver the utmost in safety and visual performance.
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Green Welding Glasses 208
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Cobalt Blue Welding Glasses 300
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Green Welding Glasses 70-PC
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Please note that for optimal eye protection, it’s important to choose the appropriate lens shade based on the intensity of the welding process. Additionally, proper usage and maintenance of welding glasses are crucial to ensure long-lasting performance. Explore our collection of welding glasses to find the right pair that meets your safety needs and enhances your welding experience. With Phillips Safety’s welding glasses, you can weld with confidence, knowing that your eyes are well-protected without compromising on clarity and comfort.