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[ColoRon]

I have a very difficult time with safety goggles.  I need bifocals to see up close and they always seem to steam up when I had my glasses on. I went to the dollar store and purchased reading glasses that fit my vision problems. I purchased new goggles, disassembled the new reading glasses and installed the lens with epoxy in my goggles.

It works great, now I get a positive seal  when I use my dust mask (the type with an exhaust port) and don't have the fogging problem as bad. You can see from the pictures the moisture that accumulated after I used the mask for 15 minutes of sanding. I wish I had done years ago.

[sitesr]

Great Idea Ron.  Sure to be popular with us 40++++ people.

Ron

[firejohn]

I wonder if I could do something like that with a set of old (last Rx) trifocal lenses.

[Allen Worsham]

I thought about doing something like that. But a few weeks back I was at Rockler and they had a display of safety glasses that had the readers/magnafiers in them. For $7 I gave them a try and I went back later and got a 2nd pair. I use a cannister resperator from Home Depot as I am an asthmatic so when the dust is flying I gotta have it. But my readers would sit too far up my nose and made it hard to see over them. These glasses worked for me. I know that they are not sealed to the face like yours, but I can't wear those as I get too steamed up.

[Randy@Yorktown]

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Allen Worsham wrote:

I thought about doing something like that. But a few weeks back I was at Rockler and they had a display of safety glasses that had the readers/magnafiers in them. For $7 I gave them a try and I went back later and got a 2nd pair. I use a cannister resperator from Home Depot as I am an asthmatic so when the dust is flying I gotta have it. But my readers would sit too far up my nose and made it hard to see over them. These glasses worked for me. I know that they are not sealed to the face like yours, but I can't wear those as I get too steamed up.

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Woodcraft also carries these.  I got a pair a couple of weeks ago.  I'm sold.  I think they're even on sale at the moment.

[ColoRon]

A really big plus is that if your eyes need different magnification, like mine, I buy 2 pairs of glasses. Each has a different magnification suited to each eye and the total cost is $2. The tight seal and total coverage is also a big factor. I have $5.58 total invested and have very good eye total protection and close up vision.

 I also have the glasses you have shown. They do not fit well and the bifocal is placed in a general position  that fits the average eye, they slip down and if you try to use goggles with them, it don't work. I say that if you have something that works well for you...........go with it. I was fighting mine most of the time and now I don't.

[3-j]

Another, easier method is to purchase the soft, reading lenses sold by Walgreen and others.  They are made to stick on the lens of sunglasses, but easily work for safety glasses.  They are easy to apply and remove, so you can use them again if you change safety classes.

[yogunny]

Might want to try the reading type safety goggles.  Those of us who don't like just that small area of magnification prefer the full-lens type of safety goggles.  (Hard to find though - try the WWW for sellers - maybe because most people probably prefer the bifocal type).  Also, for those who wear contacts, ask your medicine man for the strength of safety glasses to buy so you can use them with your contacts without any distortion.