Great tips Clayton. Been using a version of the goggles and a graduated loop for years. Next stop? Microscope! I endorse your recommendations.

@ClaytonDarwin

9 ай бұрын

Endorsed by Bill Field. Great end to the week.

I wear transitional lens glasses and came up with the exact same solution as you!!! Dedicated soldering glasses = Woot!!! You need your doctor to help you develop the prescription.... You need the maximum magnification, but at the focal distance that is long enough to get your soldering iron in under your nose... Say 10 to 14 inches... Now, I have the largest available viewing area - the entire lens and not just some portion of it where things come in to focus. No more bobbing my head to find the sweet spot. Your headset has individual lenses. Those lenses are sold separately. I bought one of those lenses and duct-taped it into my welding helmet. Now, I do not have to wear my glasses, under the hood. They do make prescription lenses that fit the welding helmet frame, but they are expensive. This is true for scuba driving and ski masks, too. Great tips!

Oh, another tip for people that work with their hands over their heads... Pipe fitters and car muffler mechanics, etc... The eye doctor can invert the magnification in single, or multi-focal, lenses to put the magnification at the top of the lens. This greatly reduces how far back that you have to tilt your neck to be in focus. Your neck will appreciate your new glasses.

I use my great grandmother's jewellery loupe from the 1800s.

Hey Clayton, I have all the same solutions on my desk. Have you seen the Mantis eyepiece-less stereo microscope?

@ClaytonDarwin

9 ай бұрын

Cool. Haven't seen the mantis. Will have a look

Do you do any diagnostic work? I have a 480v, 3 phase, 250hp rated soft start control cabinet.

@ClaytonDarwin

8 ай бұрын

I've never worked on one. Do you have the schematic/manual for it? I could look at it at least. Send me an email.