Square Peg wrote:
Any recommendations for magnifying lenses for very fine work?

For fine electronic and mechanical work
I use a pair of multiple lens
glasses which are similar to those that
surgeons use which have
the extra lenses glued to regular
glasses. Mine are made by a company
called kbk, who or whatever they are.
If you google "reading telescopes"
you will find many links. I bought mine
about 10 years ago when I
had one of those pre-tax health accounts
where I didn't spend the
money in a particular year. I guess we
didn't get sick that year or
need a lot of meds. Normally you would
loose it, however, I asked
a low vision optometrist if he could
prescribe the telescope glasses because I
needed them to see small electronic
parts for my job. They were
between $200 and $300 and were covered
from the pre-tax account,
which would have been lost money anyway.