My aching eyeballs after practicing FCAW.

One of the previous comments that stuck in my pointed head was that being a newbie, I could have been straining to see the puddle or hard focusing on the arc while trying to figure out WTF I'm doing. That's when I started down the rabbit hole on lens clarity. Probably splitting hairs that don't need splitting. Have the twitch to jump back in though. Twice now since the eye doc found "nothing wrong" and I promised the little woman I'd sit on the sidelines until Jan, I've had my neighbor that planted the welding seed over to work on his trucks. Both times, I drag out my welder to watch him save the day. I'll die of old age before I learn how to weld if I have to sit it out for weeks after every fifteen minutes of welding.:BangHead: