Took my glasses off to see to mark something, went off to do something else, came back, something went CRACK--of course the glasses had fallen on the floor and that was them, and it was the lenses that went CRACK so no straightening the frame and going on about my business.
ARRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH.
Oh, well, 60 bucks to China and two weeks and I'll have plenty of glasses. And in the meantime I can wear my motorcycle goggles (three cheers for prescription goggles).
Sorry, just venting.
I had an optometrist (actually Mordecai Richler's brother in St John's) once ask me how many pairs of shoes I had. So why would I have only one pair of glasses? Although he had a definite interest in the matter, it makes perfect sense to me. Now, I have 3 pairs (I lost one on my hunting trip this fall, I couldn't find them under the snow.)
I also had a scary incident on I5 in northern Oregon when my lens fell off on a rainy night last November. And that was the right eye, the one through which I see (for those who don't know, I am a one-eye- talian). Luckily there was a rest stop not too far ahead, but I had to go into the camper to get another pair. So I now keep a spare pair in the glove compartment.
Luigi
I also had a scary incident on I5 in northern Oregon when my lens fell off on a rainy night last November. And that was the right eye, the one through which I see (for those who don't know, I am a one-eye- talian). Luckily there was a rest stop not too far ahead, but I had to go into the camper to get another pair. So I now keep a spare pair in the glove compartment.
Currently, and hopefully not any worse, I only need reading glasses. Therefore, I also keep several pairs all over the house as well as the shop. Though, with the shop, I have a pair of safety glasses with the reader magnification to my need imbedded on the bottom of the lens. Best $10 spent.
J.C. I am an old motorcycle trail rider. Only need glasses for reading. Just need goggles for eye protection. What type of beast do you ride? WW
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Glass glasses? Polycarbonate is the way to go. Better protection too.
"J. Clarke" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@hamster.jcbsbsdomain.local:
Are the motorcycle goggles useful for woodworking? I usually use goggles because they fit over my glasses, but have been wondering if prescription goggles or safety glasses would solve the fogging problems.
Puckdropper
------------------------------- Great visibility, especially when they get scratched.
Lew
--------------------------------------- Sounds like you were lucky.
You could have been wearing them when they broke.
Lew
Is that a fact?
There is a rather amazing list of properties of polycarbonate here:
I wish to get a face mask/shield for general protection when using power tools. Have a recommendation? "Works well with glasses" is non-negotiable.
Bill
I don't know. I take care of them and have not had a scratch in decades. Yes, I wear them all my waking hours too.
I stepped on a rake (carefully stored backwards against the wheelbarrow) the day after I got my new Zennis. It put two small scraches on the left lens near the nose. It took five minutes to reshape the frames, but nothing broke, including the lens. Now, a couple months later, I'm noticing a distinct corrosion on the right temple, where it touches my face. I'm going to have to replace them with either SS or titanium frames due to my corrosive skin makeup. This isn't the first time it's happened. My other glasses have longer plastic segments on their temples and haven't corroded. I spent a whopping extra $4 for an extra set of Zenni frames, too. I'll put these lenses in that frame and keep it in the truck. I usually keep the old pair there, too, just in case. And I now keep a set of computer glasses in there, too.
IF you can stand the distortion. Poly has over twice the distortion of high and regular index plastics. I had to have a pair of lenses replaced for that reason once. They kept me dizzy for a week yet showed up true in the prescription recheck. Caveat Emptor.
-- Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary. -- Peter Minard
I've had $30 and $15 AO Safety shields, and $8 and $3 HF shields. The pricier ones are a bit thicker, but I've never had a large piece break even the thin one. Most bits hitting it are very small, an inch or less down to smaller than sand granule size.
Any of them will do as long as they have an infinitely adjustable headband. Get that set right so it stays off your temples.
Almost all of them are made with polycarbonate, so it's stiffer and tougher. (I can handle the distortion there, in small doses, but moving around much just kills me. Urp!)
-- Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary. -- Peter Minard
Polycarb glasses are lighter for coke-bottle prescriptions but they tend to have annoying chromatic aberration, particularly at the edges of large lenses (useful for computer work).
I *try* not to scratch my glasses, but that's obviously not good enough. I took a chunk out of one pair last week, dropping them off a ladder onto the rock below. The other pair went through the wash (presbyopia, so only needed for reading). Both are still wearable, at least until I go to the eye doctor in a couple of months.
Hardened polycarbonate were the ones they used to issue us for safety
Apparently the polycarbonate absorb more impact but they are softer and scratch more easily. The hardening gives you the best of both worlds. This probably means prescription, only and that also makes the wrap-around not be available.
------------------------------------- Let me know how well they work after you have had to scrape some cured epoxy drops off that polycarbonate lens, especially if the epoxy was smeared while still wet.
Lew
I can't see it myself.
Lew
I will, if it ever happens. If I thought I was in danger of getting epoxy on my lenses, I'd be wearing safety glasses over them. Last scratch I recall was when I was about 10 years old and got a scratch the first day I wore my new glasses. Right down the center into the field of view. That was before plastics.
I wonder if RainX would have helped that. Give it a try, Lew.
-- Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary. -- Peter Minard
Get contacts. Wear only one.
One eye will work for distance, the other for close-up (like reading).
I do that and the only disadvantage is that I have to concentrate for near depth-perception .
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--------------------------------- A single edge razor blade scrapes any crap off my glass lens with out any problems.
Lew
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