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Blkvoodoo

Blkvoodoo

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being older and anything less than 3ft in front of me being essentially a blur.

Has anyone used the magnifier inserts for welding helmets ?
Are they worth a damn ?
I've got safety glasses with magnifiers in them (everyday wear pretty much all the time everywhere) but those don't help with a larger field of vision and wearing them in a welding helmet I'm looking down and tilting head back. even with a large glass on helmet I'm looking thru the bottom third of the view. very tiring.

whose got what ?
 
Everyday is 2.0

ordered 2.0 and 2.5

I need something better for work too, wire numbers are tiny and so far away....

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I just wear my reading glasses under the welding helmet, am i missing something?
 
RatLabGuy said:
I just wear my reading glasses under the welding helmet, am i missing something?
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safety glasses with magnifiers, like bifocals, have to look down to use the lens, see above, it’s explained
 
Same here, 1.75 readers under the helmet do wonders for me.
 
Speaking of. Anyone know of good magnifiers around the 5x range with 12” focal length.

see what dentists use....
 
shawn said:
You can wear regular readers (not bifocals) under the helmet.
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Yeah, tha tr s what i was saying i do.
Same $20 Target cheapos i use the rest of the tine, just like now to read this phone lol
 
I had a pocket full of readers at one time, I went to the safety glasses with magnifier lenses so I wouldn’t have to juggle safety glasses and readers all day everyday.

With the welding even with readers I find the field of vision to be lower in the glass than is comfortable mostly as readers are usually designed to be looked over the top (sitting lower on the nose).

having a large sight glass to see while welding is pointless if you can’t use it all, And The “normal” sight glass is uncomfortable with readers and bifocal type glasses (for me)

I found the “cheater” lenses and they’ll be here tomorrow. 2.0 and 2.5x

My hood has a hanger for such in it, the question was if they were worth the trouble. For the cost it’s worth trying, maybe I can make them useful for other things as well.

There was a place that sold the bifocal type Safety glasses with the magnifier on the top side of the lens for when you’re looking up, like under a dash or similar, I need to find those again too.

my eyesight is typical middle age degradation, not cloudy, just not able to focus on smaller things.
 
Blkvoodoo said:
I had a pocket full of readers at one time, I went to the safety glasses with magnifier lenses so I wouldn’t have to juggle safety glasses and readers all day everyday.

With the welding even with readers I find the field of vision to be lower in the glass than is comfortable mostly as readers are usually designed to be looked over the top (sitting lower on the nose).

having a large sight glass to see while welding is pointless if you can’t use it all, And The “normal” sight glass is uncomfortable with readers and bifocal type glasses (for me)

I found the “cheater” lenses and they’ll be here tomorrow. 2.0 and 2.5x

My hood has a hanger for such in it, the question was if they were worth the trouble. For the cost it’s worth trying, maybe I can make them useful for other things as well.

There was a place that sold the bifocal type Safety glasses with the magnifier on the top side of the lens for when you’re looking up, like under a dash or similar, I need to find those again too.

my eyesight is typical middle age degradation, not cloudy, just not able to focus on smaller things.
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It'll take practice. Its like being a little tipsy to me until you get over everything being right in your face and your arms feeling strangely long and disconnected.

I have done readers for about a year for low amp tig. See it real good but have a dang hard time telling my hands the perception is different then what I need to move. You'll basicly have to relearn a little muscle memory or reprogram.....move small.
 
I tried my readers, but I feel my distance, with welding, may be throwing them off. But also I seem to have more of a Too Bright, to see the joint & or puddle. I've tried adjusting the brightness control, without luck. Maybe I need a better helmet.
 
Magnifiers and bright light ...... remember using a magnifying glass as a kid to burn paper?
Get a darker lens.
 
Lizooki said:
Magnifiers and bright light ...... remember using a magnifying glass as a kid to burn paper?
Get a darker lens.
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I've got the Auto-darken helmet, but it's several years old, & cheap. Has the darkening control, which I have on the darkest setting. It was great for some time, but not in the last two or more years. Don't know it it's Me , or the Helmet. Probably both!
 
rodney eppes said:
I've got the Auto-darken helmet, but it's several years old, & cheap. Has the darkening control, which I have on the darkest setting. It was great for some time, but not in the last two or more years. Don't know it it's Me , or the Helmet. Probably both!
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It's also cheaper tech and not clear to start with. Kinda like old tv tech. Unless your spoilt go get a glass lense. I like plain ol Hobart. You could pony for much higher glass lens, but all glass is always better.
Buy a adapter to clip in a magnifier and away you go.
To get a really clear electronic helmet with longevity you used to have to spend big bucks. I have what's called a true-view auto helmet. It has a few trade names but basically it has almost no tint. Thake getting used to. Still it was 300 plus.
My shop and portable still uses 3 ol hoods with glass in them.
 
WARRIORWELDING said:
It's also cheaper tech and not clear to start with. Kinda like old tv tech. Unless your spoilt go get a glass lense. I like plain ol Hobart. You could pony for much higher glass lens, but all glass is always better.
Buy a adapter to clip in a magnifier and away you go.
To get a really clear electronic helmet with longevity you used to have to spend big bucks. I have what's called a true-view auto helmet. It has a few trade names but basically it has almost no tint. Thake getting used to. Still it was 300 plus.
My shop and portable still uses 3 ol hoods with glass in them.
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Yep #10/11 gold coated glass lens FTW!!!!!

Not the orange hue plastic filters, the true blue hue real glass.
 
These came as a pair from Amazon
( 2 lenses per purchase)
I ordered 2.0 and 2.5

all came in an individual case wrapped in plastic.

$14 a pair

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