Bi-Focal Safety Glasses

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Yep, now I know I'm old. I knew my close in vision (reading in bed) has progressively gotten worse over the last 6 months, so when I was on a job for an optometrist I asked him about it. He said "How old are you?" I told him and he laughed... :angry7: He told me the medical term of the problem (I forgot) and he also said that it happens to everyone. He grabbed three pairs of glasses and had me try them and PRESTO! The +1.50's worked great!

Anyway, last night I was drawing up and cutting some very small parts on the bandsaw for a motorcycle project and realized I'm blind, lol. I jumped on Amazon and ordered 3 pairs of bi-focal safety glasses, two clear and one smoke. Two are made by DeWalt and one by 3M. For those who suffer the same malady, I'll post my reviews once they come in next week. The total price for all 3 was about 32 bucks with shipping and they are available from +1.00 to +3.00.
 
AaaHaaa!! :D know you can see those single gray hairs growing Joe :D:toothy10:
I carry and wear (somethime) Bi-Focal glasses when I go out on the town to eat, now for about 3 years now, They are transition lenses so they come in handy on sunny days :glasses7: And a pair of reading glasses for that real fine print we all should read on pesticides to keep tic, fleas, chiggers at bay. My 2 wooded lots here on the hill is a safe place for my grandchildren and my 2 four legged friends :coffee2: Getting older are yea Joe :D Hay! You still have your hair on top that is for sure, I have seen your mop :toothy10: and I don't think it's going anywhere soon.. I should check out a set of safety glasses for myself.
 
I've worn contacts since 7th grade but had to step up and buy a cheapie pair of magnifiers for my detail work last year. Getting older sucks ........

I'd love to have one of those lighted clamp-on-the-workbench industrial magnifiers though if anybody has one they don't use.
 
Joe, just be careful, as the non-prescription magnifiers can actually make your eyesight worse in the long run.

I'm due for a prescription update myself. We'll see if I need bi-focals myself here soon.
 
Yep I sell quite a few but not to anyone younger than 40. LOL
 
memike said:
AaaHaaa!! :D know you can see those single gray hairs growing Joe :D:toothy10:
I carry and wear (somethime) Bi-Focal glasses when I go out on the town to eat, now for about 3 years now, They are transition lenses so they come in handy on sunny days :glasses7: And a pair of reading glasses for that real fine print we all should read on pesticides to keep tic, fleas, chiggers at bay. My 2 wooded lots here on the hill is a safe place for my grandchildren and my 2 four legged friends :coffee2: Getting older are yea Joe :D Hay! You still have your hair on top that is for sure, I have seen your mop :toothy10: and I don't think it's going anywhere soon.. I should check out a set of safety glasses for myself.
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The grey is just starting to creep up into my sideburns Mike. :toothy10: I'm lucky with the hair, my son is kinda pissed about it, lol.

CudaChick1968 said:
I've worn contacts since 7th grade but had to step up and buy a cheapie pair of magnifiers for my detail work last year. Getting older sucks ........

I'd love to have one of those lighted clamp-on-the-workbench industrial magnifiers though if anybody has one they don't use.
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You should've asked me last year, I would've boxed it up and sent right out. Now I need it. :angry7:

ramenth said:
Joe, just be careful, as the non-prescription magnifiers can actually make your eyesight worse in the long run.

I'm due for a prescription update myself. We'll see if I need bi-focals myself here soon.
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Thanks Ramenth, I'll have to ask about that. It's just for close in shop work and reading in bed though.
 
i have been using the safety glasses for few year now when needed at work,for reading wireing diagrams. I get them at home depot .
 
I've been wearing bi focal safety glasses for years. Mine are prescription, they work great.
For very close work, I still use a pair of store bought readers, though. I did buy "readers" that pass the ball bearing test for safety glass, and offer removable side shields.
 
ramcharger said:
Yep, now I know I'm old. I knew my close in vision (reading in bed) has progressively gotten worse over the last 6 months, so when I was on a job for an optometrist I asked him about it. He said "How old are you?" I told him and he laughed... :angry7: He told me the medical term of the problem (I forgot) and he also said that it happens to everyone. He grabbed three pairs of glasses and had me try them and PRESTO! The +1.50's worked great!

Anyway, last night I was drawing up and cutting some very small parts on the bandsaw for a motorcycle project and realized I'm blind, lol. I jumped on Amazon and ordered 3 pairs of bi-focal safety glasses, two clear and one smoke. Two are made by DeWalt and one by 3M. For those who suffer the same malady, I'll post my reviews once they come in next week. The total price for all 3 was about 32 bucks with shipping and they are available from +1.00 to +3.00.
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My optometrist has me buy over the counter glasses. It has been over 10 years and so far he has said the same thing every year when I have my check up.
 
ramenth said:
Joe, just be careful, as the non-prescription magnifiers can actually make your eyesight worse in the long run.

I'm due for a prescription update myself. We'll see if I need bi-focals myself here soon.
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Yep.
 
Oklacarcollecto said:
My optometrist has me buy over the counter glasses. It has been over 10 years and so far he has said the same thing every year when I have my check up.
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Ernie needs reading glasses. She had Lasik done several years ago and her distance is till great, but up close not so much. Her eye doc has told her that until her up close vision changes over the counter reading glasses will be just fine. She just had an exam a while back....and she will now need prescription reading glasses. Getting old sucks.....
 
I wear prescription tri-focals now full time.No more looking over/under my glasses to read small print(Iphone).One pair does all LOL
 
ramenth said:
Joe, just be careful, as the non-prescription magnifiers can actually make your eyesight worse in the long run.
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I think that may be an old-wives-tale...my optometrist told me I had candle-itis (too many birthday candles). He told me he could sell me some readers for $100, or I could go to the drug store and by 3 for $10 and have 2 spares.

He did say to try the exact pair you're thinking of buying.

He said that if I bought his, they'd be 1.0x +/- 0.05x on each lens, but that some of the drug store pair might be 1.0x +/- 0.2x on each lens (so you could have 0.8x L / 1.2x R).

As to the bifocal safety glasses - they're cool, but...the magnifying part is pretty small, and it's sometimes hard to get your head tipped just right to get in the magnifying part.

I keep both bifocal safety glasses and regular safety glasses and readers in the garage.
 
I have worn glasses for distance since 4th grade. Never had problems with close up until the last couple years. Now I had to buy a cheater lens for my welding helmet to tig weld or I can't see ****. As for the grey hair mine started at 17 and went total silver about 25 years ago. Getting old sucks.
 
That's the reason I don't get to this site with my I-pod anymore. I can't see the small stuff anymore.......Getting too old. Can't move the tele any closer to the couch.....Ugh.....LOL!!!!!!!
 
I don't know about the "wive's tale" thing about what I posted up.

Most lenses on prescriptions may be close, but there's usually a slightly variation per lens as both eyes may see differently. Unless you know, as in you've undergone and eye exam. OTC lenses are cut the same, without the variation.

Too many people just buy the OTC's because they think they need glasses, when they don't know that each eye may be different.

In the long run, you may be able to have good vision from one eye, but the strain put on the other isn't good. And since we're binocular vision species, with the glasses sitting that close to the eye, it may be hard to tell.

Many people may suffer headaches because of it and not even make the connection.
 
Once I turned 40 the gal that check my eyes told me on my next visit because of my age would need bifocals

Told her not yet, but a few years later I was having to have extra light and remove my glasses to see to read

So for several years I have had bifocal glasses, now to work overhead like under a dash, I CANNOT SEE SH**, so have to take my glasses off to see.

Buddy is 6 months older but doesn't wear glasses, except to read, bought some of the bifocal safety's, now he has to take them when we go out for dinner so he can read the menu.

Mom always said, GETTING OLD ISN'T FOR SISSIES
 
WildCat said:
Mom always said, GETTING OLD ISN'T FOR SISSIES
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Nope.

But I can honestly tell you, I'm enjoying it. I can wear the stress and worry lines like a badge of honor. I can wear the scars with my head held high.

I like my glasses and I like my grey.

I like the fact that my body aches and my bones snap and pop. It's been a hard road to get here. And it'll probably be a hard road ahead. I'll take it as a challenge.

I'll push my body to the point it hurts. And smile the next morning when I wake up and my body gives me all those reminders that I'm not twenty anymore.

My pains, my ache, my heartbreaks have made me the man I am. For the past eleven years I've grown with the pride of having a woman who's helped me grow, even as she teasingly called me "old man."

And for that, I raise my chin and push out my chest and proudly call myself an "old man!"
 
Just my 2 cents as a licensed Ophthalmic Dispenser. My job is to interpret and fill eyeglass/contact lens prescriptions from Optometrists and Ophthalmologist.

Ophthalmologist-is a specialist in medical and surgical eye problems and are MD's

Optometrist-primary eye care professional trained to prescribe and fit lenses to improve one's vision, also most today are T.P.A. certified which means they can treat certain eye diseases

Ophthalmic Dispenser-one who adapts and fits lenses for the correction of deficiencies, deformities or anomalies of the human eye

Basically I make prescription eyeglasses.I had to attend a technical college for two years and intern for one, then pass the state boards and have/maintain a clean record in order to fabricate eyeglasses. I must have twenty four hours of continuing education credits every two years to maintain my license. We must follow strict rules in the interpretation and fabrication of eyeglasses based on the ANSI standards.0ver the counter or commercial glasses do not meet these requirements.They are not measured for your individual pupil distance or height.When these measurements are off they produce unwanted prism.This can cause discomfort and visual problems including blur, headaches, nausea and even double vision.Most of these glasses are made in China and are labeled incorrectly.Do not assume what is on the label is what you are purchasing. That includes those cheap 100% UV protected sunglasses that are actually not UV protected at all.The readers marked +2.00 is actually +2.25 in one eye and +1.75 in the other. Let's not forget those cheap safety glasses that do not pass the requirements for safety in the U.S.A.That being said not all eyeglasses made in China are made incorrectly,but keep in mind you get what you pay for. The next time your eye Dr tells you to get over the counter "readers" ask if he/she would accept those same tolerance's in your distance glasses or any other pair of glasses. How about his/her glasses? If your finances allow it purchase a real pair of glasses. Specify that to your eye Dr so that he gives you your full reading RX not the modified over the counter one.Support your local eyeglass shop.
 
So let's review.
1. Got the hot chick. Check
2. Got the strapping young son. Check
3. Turning into the blind old guy. Double check.

Sound about right? Good job Joe, ya done it all in one year. Most of us poor slobs take most of our lives to get that far. :thumblef:
 
I forgot to mention that my indicator for a new prescription is when I start bumping my face shield on the bench grinder. :D
 
mopar steve said:
Just my 2 cents as a licensed Ophthalmic Dispenser. My job is to interpret and fill eyeglass/contact lens prescriptions from Optometrists and Ophthalmologist.

Ophthalmologist-is a specialist in medical and surgical eye problems and are MD's

Optometrist-primary eye care professional trained to prescribe and fit lenses to improve one's vision, also most today are T.P.A. certified which means they can treat certain eye diseases

Ophthalmic Dispenser-one who adapts and fits lenses for the correction of deficiencies, deformities or anomalies of the human eye

Basically I make prescription eyeglasses.I had to attend a technical college for two years and intern for one, then pass the state boards and have/maintain a clean record in order to fabricate eyeglasses. I must have twenty four hours of continuing education credits every two years to maintain my license. We must follow strict rules in the interpretation and fabrication of eyeglasses based on the ANSI standards.0ver the counter or commercial glasses do not meet these requirements.They are not measured for your individual pupil distance or height.When these measurements are off they produce unwanted prism.This can cause discomfort and visual problems including blur, headaches, nausea and even double vision.Most of these glasses are made in China and are labeled incorrectly.Do not assume what is on the label is what you are purchasing. That includes those cheap 100% UV protected sunglasses that are actually not UV protected at all.The readers marked +2.00 is actually +2.25 in one eye and +1.75 in the other. Let's not forget those cheap safety glasses that do not pass the requirements for safety in the U.S.A.That being said not all eyeglasses made in China are made incorrectly,but keep in mind you get what you pay for. The next time your eye Dr tells you to get over the counter "readers" ask if he/she would accept those same tolerance's in your distance glasses or any other pair of glasses. How about his/her glasses? If your finances allow it purchase a real pair of glasses. Specify that to your eye Dr so that he gives you your full reading RX not the modified over the counter one.Support your local eyeglass shop.
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Wow, what a great write up!!! FABO has experts on everything ... :-D Thanks for sharing that one.
 
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