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   timkline | Aug 07, 2005 01:16am | #1

   mine hang on a pair of croakies on my rear view mirror when not on my head

   when they are on my head, they are over my eyes always

   can't remember the last time i replaced a pair because they were scratched.  i always replaced them because a new and different style came out.

   when i clean them, i only do it under running water with soap.  i almost never clean them without water.

   how are your glasses getting scratched as a mill man ?  it's just sawdust right  ?   usually it's all in how you clean and care for them. 

   you are better off changing how you handle the glasses then trying to find a scratchproof pair.

   http://www.safetyglassesusa.com/whatsnew.html

    

   carpenter in transition

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   dieselpig | Aug 07, 2005 01:23am | #2

   Great site.... thanks for the link.

   I'm going to order a few pairs of "cool" looking ones for the guys.  I've noticed they've been slacking off on wearing them again.  Maybe that'll motivate them.

   I'll bet every single one of us has spent our fair share of time standing at the side mirror of a truck with a bottle of water (if you're lucky) trying to wash some type of crap out of our eyes.  You'd think it would be automatic at this point, huh?  I know for many of you it is, but I still catch myself sometimes.

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   Timuhler | Aug 08, 2005 12:54am | #12

   Brian,

   Buy the McKinley polarized glasses.  We've been using them for the last couple of years or so and they are very comfortable and durable.  Definitely worth the money.

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   Adrian | Aug 08, 2005 01:35am | #13

   Haven't had the drill experience, but have doen the pitate look on a couple of occasions.....currently, as a prescrip glasses wearer, I don't have access to the super cool dude funky safety glasses thing.....dammit. I've found one brand of Z87 glasses that fit over my glasses, and i go through 5-6 pairs per year at about $3.50 CDN a pop. Toss em when they get useless. Just bought a Stihl string trimmer, and their glasses have possibilities; may bring a few in.cabinetmaker/college woodworking instructor. Cape Breton, N.S

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   blue_eyed_devil | Aug 07, 2005 01:47pm | #6

   I agree with Diesel...that was a very good link Tim!

   Before I had to get prescription lenses, I always, always, always wore safty glasses (after age 25). Before that, I learned to hate doing the eyewash thing at the truck mirror.

   Anyways, there is a tradeoff if you want scratch free lenses. It's called weight. Glass doesn't scratch, but it is heavy.

   I've never tried this, but there is a product that eliminates scratches. I don't remember if it was used on glass or plastic, but I remember doing it once on something.

   blue 

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   ruffmike | Aug 07, 2005 08:16pm | #10

   I agree, the only way to keep glasses unscratched is keep 'em on.
   Buy a good pair and don't leave 'em hangin' around your neck gathering dust.                                   Mike

                       Trust in God, but row awayfrom the rocks

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   xxPaulCPxx | Aug 08, 2005 04:20am | #15

   I agree, good safety glasses never get taken off.

   I've fallen for the AO Safety "Fuel" style sold at Lowes for $19.00.  They are basicly another Oakly ripoff looks wise, but they are very comfy.  I have 2 boxes of clear, and 4 boxes of red mirrored... ready to replace the 1 clear and 3 red I have in circulation throughout the house and garage.  I wear them everywhere, even when I'm not working.Rebuilding my home in Cypress, CA

   Also a CRX fanatic!

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   timkline | Aug 08, 2005 07:25pm | #16

   I know I have told this one before here, but seems like a good time for a repeat.

   About 15 years ago I was repairing a home which had been hit by a car.  It was a summer afternoon and I was running a circular saw cutting for an old timer.  I had my glasses on with a pair of Croakies ( I used to take a lot of crap for those things long before they appeared in every corner gas station ). 

   It was really hot and sweat got on my glasses so I lifted them up onto my forehead and kept cutting.  All of a sudden, wham, splinter nailed me right in the eye and it wouldn't come out with washing.

   Sooo, drove myself to my eye doctor with one eye open and eventually got called up to have my consultation with one of the staff members.

   Name, address, phone, SS#, blah blah   

   Occupation ?

   Carpenter.

   It was like that EF Hutton commercial, everyone in the office heard me say it and all let out a big groan. Apparently we must make up 50% of their patient base.

   When she asked me why I wasn't wearing safety glasses, I said I was, they were just up on my forehead.

   She followed with, " Well, I guess we won't be pulling any splinters out of your forehead on this visit then, will we ? "

   I earned that one.    Fortunately for me, the splinter popped out while I was sitting in the examining room waiting for the doctor to come in.

    carpenter in transition

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   Treetalk | Aug 09, 2005 03:09am | #17

   Hard to find good sfatey glasses to go over prescrips..even Gemplers has one or to styles and they arent very "kool" looking.Ill still go with plastic lenses because of weight but my eye doc said i made a mistake getting the scratch coating fro Walmart because its a film that scatches easily.Go figure. I know i did ruin a pair by doing the finger/windshield wiper thing sanding some drywall.

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   Ken | Aug 09, 2005 03:14am | #18

   Learned that lesson myself just last week. Glasses on the shelf, had the saw all set up, too hard to walk ten feet and get them. Just a little cut, right?Scratched my eyeball (self-diagnosis) and it hurt for two days. Even had to enjoy the pain while sitting at a Nationals game -- saw a grand slam through the good eye.Glasses won't be too far away to find again!

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   MikeSmith | Aug 09, 2005 04:44am | #19

   i wear prescription glasses.. so i got the top/side shields that attach to my glasses..

   opted for glass instead of polycarbonate due to the scratching issue

   also my glasses are photogrey and infinitely variable focus.. so the attached shields work great..

    i forget the brand name.. timkin sounds rightMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore

   
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   Jamie_Buxton | Aug 07, 2005 04:56am | #3

   Get glass lenses in your safety glasses.   You can't get these at the local builders store.   You get them from opticians.   They have OHSA-approved safety glasses which can have glass lenses.  Glass scratches much less easily than plastic.   Opticians also have the full range of fitting options like length of the temple, width of the bridge, and such, so you can make the things really fit you.   

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   bruceb | Aug 07, 2005 05:19am | #4

    The bottom brand on the Site Tim posted.

    WileY-X. Just got two pair. Mine came with a headband, clear and sun lenses, two different gaskets for where they meet the face and a hard case.

    NOt sure how much. Mine were compliments of Uncle Sam. I just know they beat all the other safety style glasses I've ever had hands down.

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   GUNN308 | Aug 07, 2005 08:18am | #5

   Benn wearin scripts since I was 8 don't remember how long ago that was but glass lasts longer because it stops static elect therefore less dust adheres to surface drawbacks are they cost more and they are heavier than polycarb.

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   Hazlett | Aug 07, 2005 02:17pm | #7

    folks-----

    I tell you----you haven't lived untill you find yourself in the emergency room having a piece of crap DRILLED out of your eyeball.

    now----most of you guys are pretty smart---and would learn the lesson about safety glasses after one such episode

    however----I am not very bright-------and so I have had the pleasure of the emergency room drill experience on TWO different occasions----before finally learning the lesson.

    In case you are wondering-------they squirt this stuff in your eyeball to paralyze it---------------the drill has that high pitched dentist drill sound-----and they lower it closer and closer to your eyeball untill AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

   then you have to spend 2 days in a dark room with your eyes shut----can't read, can't watch tv-----and for several years afterward bright sunlight will bother that eye.

    wear the glasses ,folks,

    Stephen

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   DougU | Aug 07, 2005 08:43pm | #11

   Stephen

    I tell you----you haven't lived untill you find yourself in the emergency room....

   Well I guess I've lived then!!!

   I started out as a welder, I'd cut steel all the time with out glasses.

   One day I got a miniscule piece in my eye, that night the pain was overwhelming. Went to the ER and the doc had to "drill" the rust spot off of my eyeball! Man that's a pain that you don't want to repeat. And its damn hard to hold still while the doc brings that little drill up to your eyeball and all you can do is focus on something knowing that you better not twitch!

   Learned a lesson that night.

   I wear script glasses now and I always tell myself that that's probably a God send, I'm kinda forced to wear em if I want to see.

   I wear the polycarb lenses though and they do scratch easy, but I don't want to go to the weight of safety glass so I've had to find a better way to clean the lenses.

   Doug

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   dustinf | Aug 07, 2005 02:32pm | #8

   http://www.safetyglasses.com

   Kind of redundant, but I think they have some different brands than the site Tim posted.  Personally, I buy the $4 MSA glasses at Home Depot.  They are comfortable, and cheap.  I usually have 3-4 pairs sliding around my dash board.  If you take care of them they last forever.  Like someone else said, don't clean them without water.  Get a small spray bottle and put some Windex in it.  T-shirt to dry.

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   Piffin | Aug 07, 2005 06:56pm | #9

   Glass will scratch, just not as easily as plastic, even with their "scratch resistant coatings". I have worn glasses all my life - well, since kindergarten.The coatings will turn cloudy after a while too, so I have given up on them, even when having a pair with a gaurantee where they replaced them three times in a year. I liked the lighter weight, but the scratches and cloudiness was a pain. My last pair has a couple piuts in the lenms from spray cleanere for the Paslode guns. I am thankful;l that a liquid potent enough to melt the plastic didn't makke it into my eye though.I used to take them off when it is hot and humid, but my first construction related injury many moons ago, was from being assigned to install metal cross bridging after the flooring was on. A chip of the galv metal hit my eye while looking up and hammering. I am as impressed as hazlett about eyeballs in emergency rooms. They have stuff to squirt in that can really burn before it gets to working. I was in a second time with metal about fifteen years later ( this managed to get in with the glasses on, but no side shields - grinding ) and they put in luminescent dye to peek at it under a blacklight. Doc let out an exclamation that I had so much scarring on my eyeball that he was suprised I could see, probably from past scratches.It was when I tried wearing contacts once that I learned how to flip my lid to get stuff out without rubbing and doing more scratching the surface.Back to glasses - and how do they get scratched. There is grinding and welding that can pit them. Running into doors and such can leave scratches on the lense as well as on your nose. And it is not always possiuble to clean them properly. When sweating heavily and in a dusty environmet, you can't hop over to some running water and a clean rag every half hour to clean them right on a construction site. 

    

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   daFarmerDave | Aug 08, 2005 03:58am | #14

   Who makes a good face shield?  I sure like the $7 UVEX safety glasses I get from Grainger.

    

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   noahchristopherr | Jul 31, 2023 10:00am | #20

   https://www.eyewebsafety.com/
   Although somewhat repetitive, I believe they have several distinct brands than the website Tim shared. I personally purchase the $4 MSA eyewear from Home Depot. They are affordable and comfortable. My dash board typically has three to four pairs sliding around it. They last forever if you take care of them. Don't clean them without water, as someone else previously said.