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1. 
   hammer1 | Sep 22, 2004 04:16am | #1

   None of us have any problems, Firebird. Must be your arms are getting shorter.

   Duluth Trading .com has a few safety glasses with reading inserts for you oldtimers.

   Beat it to fit / Paint it to match

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   Gunner | Sep 22, 2004 04:18am | #2

   Get the surgery. 

   Who Dares Wins.

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   EricPaulson | Sep 22, 2004 04:47am | #6

   >>Get the surgery. 

   Talk to me Gunny...you're not talking about Lasik are you?

   EricEvery once in a while, something goes right!

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   Gunner | Sep 22, 2004 04:50am | #7

   Yes I'm talking about Lasik. I don't think they can do anything for your close up problems but they can fix your far away problems. Stan Foster has had it. Personaly I haven't I wear contacts and get along fine. But as soon as I come across the cash laying around I'm getting lazered.Who Dares Wins.

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   EricPaulson | Sep 22, 2004 04:55am | #10

   yeah.........maybe I screwed up the far near thing.......I can't see up close or to read.........far is no problem.

   I don't think Lasik can correct this.

   EricEvery once in a while, something goes right!

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   Gunner | Sep 22, 2004 05:09am | #12

   I don't either. I

   'm starting to lose my up close too. I've always had problems with far, but upclose is a new game and it sucks.Who Dares Wins.

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   BillHartmann | Sep 23, 2004 02:36am | #15

   Lasik is only for distance correction.

   But there are a number of different types of procedures, some of them for near vision.

   And for some that do need distance correction one option is mon-ocular vision where the two eyes are tweaked differently. For some people that works fine.

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   HeavyDuty | Sep 22, 2004 04:31am | #3

   If you can get used to bi- or tri-focals, that's great. Most people, especially men, just don't have the patience. Depends on your work habit and what kind of work you do, most of the time your working distance is further than your reading distance so try a prescription that is not as strong as your reading glasses might help.

   Me? I was nearsighted to begin with so when I started to find that I got eye-strain and headache at the end of the day, I switched to nonprescription and now I am happy. I figure one day if I need reading glasses to see what I am working on, I may as well call it quit.

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   seeyou | Sep 22, 2004 04:43am | #4

   I'm with Gunner - my wife wore glasses as thick as coke bottle bottoms. Got lasered about 5 years ago and now she sees too well. I can't get away with anything anymore.

   I invented quadfocals.

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   Lenny | Sep 22, 2004 04:44am | #5

   They are called  "occupational lens."

   I've worn bifocals for a few years with blended lens ( no line), safety lens...problem is close work that is above you...like crown molding.

   To get in focus you have to tilt your head back to look thru the lower portion of the lens.  A real pain in the neck.  An occupational lens has a close lens added to the top...so when your working close and high...you only tilt your head up slightly and look thru the top portion.

   Not to complicate things ...there's another type called "piano glasses"  lately called "computer glasses"  These have the close lens at the bottom as in a regular bifocal but the top of the lens is ground to and arms length focus.  They aren't worth a hoot for long distance.  Good for me for interior carpentry..doing a crown job right now...also I like em for small plumbing/ elect work.

   Couple of other things....get the safety lens!!!

   Side shields ...make my eyes sweat.

   Invest in a bottle of cleaning juice.

   Get the kind with the little nose pads...frame on nose is a poor fit and impossible to adjust...unless you wanna be Joe Cool Carpenter.

   I use the piano type but you have to get used to the fuzzy look if you looking across the room..a pain for someone...I just live with it.

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   EricPaulson | Sep 22, 2004 04:53am | #8

   >>An occupational lens has a close lens added to the top...so when your working close and high...you only tilt your head up slightly and look thru the top portion.

   So I take it you've no experience with theses.

   I suppose I could have the glass guy do a mock up for me to try.......took me a while to get used to the reading glasses. I flip 'em off and on alot.

   I can't use these at work , so I'm doing a little research.

   sucs gettin old.......

   EricEvery once in a while, something goes right!

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   xMikeSmith | Sep 22, 2004 04:53am | #9

   i wear varifocus.. infinite adjustment..basicaly the bottom is for close.. top is for far..

    and anything in between.. the focal pointis what you are pointing your nose at..

    i also wear the combination sie and top shields.. i put them on when i leave the house and switch to my regular varifocus glasses when i come home..Mike Smith   Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore

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   Dez | Sep 22, 2004 05:07am | #11

   Eric,

    

   I know a few 'old folk' carps that have what you mention...bifocals top and bottom. They love them. I still look over the tops of mine. I'll probably go that way next time, as the neck suffers from looking waaay up to see anything above your head.

    

   When I started wearing bi-focals I was somewhat vain and asked for the no-line ones (didn't want the ladies to know I was that old!) took em back and got regular ones. The transition from the bifocal to the distance prescription on the no line was just a blur area for me. Didn't need any additional blurred vision.

    

   Which ever way you go...be careful going down stairs until you get use to them! They will mess with your depth perception big time. Makes you feel really old at first.

    

   I have always loved doing detailed work that requires good close up vision...when it goes, it's one of those bummers that you just learn to accept. And you start wondering why mfg's make print so stinking small on their products! Good luck with the spec's.

    

   Dez
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   SamT | Sep 22, 2004 05:16am | #13

   Just make sure the doc does not talk you into the focus he wants.

   BTDT

   I'm nearsighted. 20:400 correctable to 20:15. Those numbers mean
   ["My distance to read]:["Average  distance to read]

   I'm using bifocals now, but I've worn lenses since 1957.

   My ideal lenses will have the top and bottom thirds focus center 6" past my palm. This will give me a band of clear vision from mid fore arm to hammerhead. I can read without glasses.

   I want Comfort Cable earpieces. These are a stiff cable that wraps around the ear. It is the only system I have found that does not slip.

   Screen type side armor to maximize ventilation.

   SamT

   Arguing with a Breaktimer is like mud-wrestling a pig -- Sooner or later you find out the pig loves it. Andy Engel

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   BillHartmann | Sep 23, 2004 02:43am | #16

   I am about the same shape that you are in.

   "Can you read the top line" - Yes, they always put and E up there so I assume that this chart is the same.

   My problem is that I want to something real exactly I will take my glasses off, get my face into it, set the cut line or drill bit, hold it and slip glass back on and then do the operation.

   I think for 2 reasons. One the nearsighted correction makes the item smaller. So taking them off it is much larger.

   The other thing since I have bifocals then I have limited range of view in the bifocal area.

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   Don | Sep 23, 2004 02:24am | #14

   Flamingornith: Get trifocals & stop fighting the problem. BUT - when you do, spring for the extra sheckels for what they call "Executive" trifocals. The sections for mid & short range go all the way across the lens, as opposed to being a quarter sized section tucked in the lower inside corner. With these, you can continue to move just your eyeballs to see something off axis. You don't have to move your whole head. Much, much easier to get used to. I've been wearing them for years, and they are GRRRRRRREAT. (Pass the Frosted Flakes.)

   Don

   The GlassMasterworks - If it scratches, I etch it!