best safety glasses?

NickWheeler

NickWheeler

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Well, apparently I need to search out some better safety glasses.

I juast had another rusting sliver of steel cut out of my eye the other day. BOTH times this happened I WAS wearing safety glasses.

The small fragment of steel bounced off my cheek or near my eye, and right into my eye.

So do you guys have the skinny on any quality safety glasses? At $250 to the Optometrist each time this happened....even something expensive would probably be cheap!!!

Thanks :)
Nick
 
Nick, I like the frame called the #9803 Patriot over at www.auralens.com
I bought them with colored lenses for the forge. They are GREAT! Cost $54 with the fancy lens, but I'd suggest at least looking at them to see the frame style. They protect the eye wonderfully. Secondary penetration via rebound is the larger hazard with safety glasses than pentration of the glass itself. Good luck; obviously, eye safety is critical.
 
Sounds like you need a full face shield? You could even cut it to cover as much as as little of your face as you wanted. How about making some sort of extension that came off of the bottom part of the frame that took up the space between the glasses and your cheek?
 
I wear regular glasses all the time and try to remember to wear my safety glasses as often as necessary. I have the kind that you can wear over your glasses and they really cut down on the stuff coming in from the sides. Some of the cheapy ones have scratched up quickly but this last pair has a wide back strap and seems to have harder plastic in the window that so far has resisted scratches.
 
find a style that fits your face, not all glasses fit all people.

You need one close around the nose, side shields and a good fit over the top of the eyes. Watch your eyebrows, they catch alot of crap then it will fall or be brushed into your eye later.

Bend your head down when you take your glasses off, with your head still bent, eyes closed,wipe your face with a clean cloth.

This was the procedure we came up with, when I was on the safety committe for a large shop. This reduced eye injuries by 50%.

Oh yeah, Are you getting this stuff in your eye at the belt grinder?

Maybe you need better light, (your eye really does see some of it coming) or a catch bucket or vac. If Grindings are bounceing off the floor or something they tend to get all over.
 
I wear glasses, but not for close-up work (need bifocals now) :grumpy:

When I do closeup work, I wear the Uvex Genesis safety glasses. They are jusr great! I have medicine cabinets here at work serviced my Zee Medical. The chap who comes in once a month to replenish them says the Uvex is rated #1. He's actually a chum of mine, so I know him saying that wasn't just typical saleman bull-kakka. I do like the Uvex though. They are very wraparound, and they only cost about $7.00 each.
 
Well buddy let the ol man w/ a lot of experience working around metal give ya some advice. I have yet to find a comfortable pair of safety glasse's that give complete protection. Nick go to town to your welding supplier and get yourself a full face shield w/ some extra new visors for it. Get the type w/ ratcheting headgear. You can wash the visors up OK, but when they get scratched just replace it. Wear your safety glasses under the visor. The face shield is going to take care of ricochets and wearing the glasses under the shield will help protect from any pieces that could penetrate the shield. I don't think you are doing anything that will penetrate but "safety first" is a way of working not just a saying.
I used to make people wear clear goggles over their safety glasses, and use a face shield in really bad places with a lot of particles in the air.
 
Try goggles, I have a set that will fit over my prescription glasses, they should give you 100% closure around your eyes.
 
Originally posted by T Blade
Try goggles, I have a set that will fit over my prescription glasses, they should give you 100% closure around your eyes.
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Larry you should wear a full face mask that way your face wouldn't hurt anyone's eyes went they look at you.:eek: :p
 
Nick:

Go to the closest full line Stihl chainsaw shop, or to the distributor along I-5 in Chehalis, and look at the face mask they have.

Mike in Seattle
 
Originally posted by tntbegg
Hey Nick,

Just work with your eyes closed!

Ha Ha

Todd Begg
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Gawd! That was funny! The wrap around ones work pretty good,Nick. I am really sorry about your eye injuries,and they had to hurt like hell. I had my safety glasses save my left eye on my day job. I wear prescription safety glasses,and fortunately, wear them all the time. I had a deer run into the side of my patrol car, and her head came right inside the car,through the drivers door window. The window exploded in, and glass cut my face and actually embedded a piece of glass in my safety lens.The piece of glass was right in the center of the left lens, and was large enough to probably cost me my left eye.The glass would have injured both eyes, from all the cuts I had. The deer hit the car so hard, she separated the car door into 3 parts and jammed the door shut. The dang deer? She got up and took off!
 
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