"Christopher Tidy" wrote in message
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| This is something that really annoys me. I buy a pair of safety goggles
| and they only last a few months. I'm not especially careless with them,
| but somehow they end up falling out of my pocket onto the floor, or
| rolling over on the bench and getting scratched. I was thinking that it
| would be great if you could buy safety goggles with flat lenses and rims
| which stand a few millimetres proud of the lens. This would be a great
| invention: it would make it so much harder to scratch your goggles.
| Sure, it would make you look like Elvis Costello, but who cares?
|
| Does anyone know if such goggles are available?
|
| Best wishes,
|
| Chris


Chris, I pay about eight bucks a pair for S&W glasses from my local
safety supplier. I get about six months each or so out of a pair. I keep
them in a soft cloth bag with drawstring I got from an optometrist for free
(I just asked.) My "regular" safety glasses are amber, and well loved. My
other pair are the dark, sunglass kind. Same make and model, too. As a
bonus, I also use the dark glasses with my OA torch, since the shade seems
to match my preference nicely. I usually keep a spare pair in my tool box
because sometimes I scratch them or drop them hard from altitude. I'm not
so perfect about wearing them that they slip off of my head occasionally.
My spare is also a new pair, which I put into use when it's time for a new
pair, and a reminder to go get another pair eventually. The only problem is
that they are wraparound, so don't fit too well in pockets. I've tried
croakies, which will help them last even longer, but I don't like dust
collecting on the inside of the lenses, which annoys the hell out of me. I
usually keep them on my head where they slip off occasionally.
For sure, safety glasses must be considered disposable. Taken care of,
they will last you much longer than mine do!