After wearing glasses all my life, my eyes got better? Yeah I know, "that doesn't happen" but mine did. Very weird. So while I'm still short sighted like before and my long vision never really changed, my short vision picked up a bunch requiring a prescription change. More than that, I can STILL see better without any glasses at all for small/really up close things. I can read the super fine print on the bottom of the kids electronics where everyone else see a faint yellow smear on the black box. Threading needles for the wife, etc? NO problem.
But...my welding has taken on a new level of suckage. It could be too, that while I've welded forever, (grew up on a farm with a stick welder building dune buggies, etc) I might not have the welder set right. I went from 17V to 9.6V and changed the wire speed around. The wire (.035) is burning off (pop, pop, pop) so I turn down the voltage or up the wire speed and sometimes it gets better but for the most part it doesn't. Another thing I've noticed is when I first start off its better than after a couple of 8" passes. It's like the wire is overheating. I tried moving the gas flow to make up for it but it doesn't seem to help. Anyway, 50lb spool on a frame aught to keep the bugger in one piece! LOL!