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Treeslayer

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i never used to think about it much, but i have to wear readers now for any thing less that four feet away. i have noticed things will go around cheap readers.
what do you guys use?
 
Depends on what I'm doing but I have a full face shield which works good with your readers, and they make bifocal safety glasses in different strengths. both work good for me.
 
I wear polycarbonate safety lenses and plastic frames with side shields in bifocal lenses in what the optician sells for industrial users most of the time. They don't fit as tight as the mass marketed ones and consequently don't fog. They were a lot less expensive than what I thought they would be and the lenses sizes are way larger than the mass marketed ones--about double in size and way better thickness lenses. I wear these under a face shield and use those in the clear and the ones for gas welding or light burning in shade 3 or 4. I am really surprised how well those for welding and burning work outside doing weed-eating, brush cutting, or other metal work etc. in the bright sun. I really try now to have double eye protection more than what I used to.
 
D.A.T. said:
I wear polycarbonate safety lenses and plastic frames with side shields in bifocal lenses in what the optician sells for industrial users most of the time. They don't fit as tight as the mass marketed ones and consequently don't fog. They were a lot less expensive than what I thought they would be and the lenses sizes are way larger than the mass marketed ones--about double in size and way better thickness lenses. I wear these under a face shield and use those in the clear and the ones for gas welding or light burning in shade 3 or 4. I am really surprised how well those for welding and burning work outside doing weed-eating, brush cutting, or other metal work etc. in the bright sun. I really try now to have double eye protection more than what I used to.
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fog is a good point. i have tried safety glasses in the woods but they all fogged quickly. i have worn the bug eyes screens but they "bugged" me.
they wouldnt do any good with body work any way.
on the face shields, are you guys painting with those? will they clear a respirator?
 
Full face shield only for me. After getting a 6 mm sliver of steel in my eye, not realizing it for two days and the resultant eye surgery, plus 3 weeks of eye scrapings 2X per week to remove the rust ring that had formed and intense pain, I will only wear a full face shield. When I got the sliver in my eye I had safety glasses on, it went underneath the glasses and into my eye.
 
Most safety glasses are a joke for protection. Full face is the only way to go. Unless you want the fun Chris went through.
 
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Treeslayer said:
fog is a good point. i have tried safety glasses in the woods but they all fogged quickly. i have worn the bug eyes screens but they "bugged" me.
they wouldnt do any good with body work any way.
on the face shields, are you guys painting with those? will they clear a respirator?
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For me--yes. A typical FibreMetal (now Honeywell) ratchet headgear face shield will work with the 3M 6200 respirator and 6001 organic filter cartridges without much room to spare having the shield come all the way down. Hardhat spring wire set-ups for the FibreMetal face shield will work also with the said respirator/cartridge set-up in industrial settings.
 
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