safety glasses, goggles, or face shield for over glasses?

[deeparker]

those of you who were glasses, i wear reading glasses, which do you find works best? my reading glasses are fairly small and had bought safety glasses but am wondering if that is good enough eye protection after reading some recent threads here. any specific brands/models you like is particularly helpful. thanks in advance!

 

[JV Knives]

Hello and welcome to BF

I find that a grinding hood (similar to welding helmet with clear lenses) is great for fitting over prescription glasses. The limitation becomes getting a good fitting mask that jives with the hood. You usually cant use the larger filters, but the half face mask with the thin pink circular filters works well. This is my norm for grinding when the dust is really flying. Sometimes....I'll back off to safety glasses rather than the hood for lesser risk work. My 2 cents

John

 

[Horsewright]

I wear properly sized safety glasses over my glasses. I have several pairs stashed through out the shop at different strategic places so I don't have to go looking for them. If I'm sanding or grinding I use goggles. I do most of that outside and if what I'm doing has the ability of coming around the edge of the glasses such as grinding or handle shaping I wear the goggles.

 

[Tom Lewis]

I have tried lots of different eye protection. Face shields I have used get scratched and most of them won't fit over a respirator. What I have used and really like is "Bifocal safety glasses by Wizard" The ones I use have a bifocal power of +3.0.

 

[Hubert S.]

I used to wear prescription safety glasses (Elvex RX500-C +1.5). Since they are reading glasses, the downside is that anything not in reading distance gets a bit blurry. That is not a big problem when working on the grinder, but gets old quick when working on the lathe or mill or other general shop tasks. I now wear a 3M Versaflow helmet with reading glasses for grinding and most of the time, regular safety glasses around the shop. The reading glasses have slightly better optics than the prescription safety glasses, so that's a plus. Anything I need to take a closer look at, I take to a magnifier or stereo microscope.

 

[Richard338]

I have tried lots of different eye protection. Face shields I have used get scratched and most of them won't fit over a respirator. What I have used and really like is "Bifocal safety glasses by Wizard" The ones I use have a bifocal power of +3.0.

I just ordered a set. Can debris still come over them? Do you wear them by themselves?

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

I wear safety lens bifocal glasses in the shop.
Using a PAPR system with a hood and umbilical hose solves the problem when grinding.
For work with no harmful dust but the possibility of something flying off like drilling/milling/lathe, use a face shield if you need more protection than your glasses.