sled dog
Senior Member
Question for the welders. After 3 weeks of burnin wire on a 120 volt machine, on light gauge steel sheets and tubing, hands are killin me. Right doesn't want to close, pain in all 4 second knuckles, and base knuckles. Hands are swollen to the wrists, although not as bad on the left. Over 20 years ago, after air arcing on loader buckets for several hours, would notice some pain and stiffness in the stinger hand. But I was runnin over 400 amps, and some strange things happen up there anyway, and didn't think anything of it. And before anyone says to relax my grip, I been burnin rod well over half a century, and am about as relaxed welding as sleeping. I do either hand, any stinger, so it's not a grip thing. Bad enough last 2 days been going lefty, and the pain and stiffness went left also. So, my question to you is, have any of you seen this, and do you think amp flow, or the magnetic field? And Doctors say it is not arthritis...