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Try goggles made specifically for paintball. I played in tournaments for a few years, and either bought or was sponsered to wear the two major brands available to the sport: JT and SCOTT. Both of these are very comfortable to wear all day, in the heat or rain, and use a “thermal” type lens (dual-pane) and WILL NOT FOG. They are heavily vented, will take a paintball directly at about 400 f.p.s. with no effect to the lens, and can be worn over glasses.
Remember now, we wore these things in the worst conditions, running, crawling, and sweating from stress. They are very tough and very well designed.
I prefer the JT Spectra’s. They were a little more comfortable on my face, with better peripheral vision (about 210 deg.)
I don’t know how important that is to woodworking, but getting shot in the A** because you can’t see is a drawback.
The Scott’s were a little slimmer and lighter but did not seem to fit me as well, but some guys love ’em.
The JT’s were about $60, and the Scott’s were $10 less.
I never thought about using them before, but the other day I had to drill into an “I” beam over my head and these were the only things I had around. Now I’m going to keep an old set in my box permanently.
Replacement lenses sell for about $15.
Brent.
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I use the antifog solution sold for swimming goggles , it works pretty well. You should be able to pick it up at most sporting goods stores.
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Well, it's not very appealing but when qualifying as a scuba diver we were taught just to use saliva. I imaging it would work on safety glasses if you were fogging up and could't run out the the sporting godds or paintball store.
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I have been looking for a better pair of safety glasses for years. Referring to the paintball glasses(JT and Scott), are they anzi or Z71 certified? And can you get a shaded lense for them?
*Ted, I don't know if they are anzi certified or not. Back in the early days of the sport we used all kinds of goggles: Motorcycle, raquetball, ski, shop goggles, everything. Then someone got smart and tested them by shooting at them. It was found that you could actually put a paintball right through all these lenses. If it didn't go through, it would knock the lenses out of the frame, or in the case of raquetball glasses, hit them hard enough to knock them off your head. Since a good player can put out 8 rounds a second, you can get hit several times in the same spot, and have no eye protection.My point is that they are tough, have devices that lock the lens in, and don't fog. I can't see wearing them while I'm framing (sad to say I only wear sunglasses) but they look like the best thing for the shop. They come shaded and tinted in different colors. Brent.
*On the subject of eyewear, several years ago I saw a 'new products' article one of these type of magazines that featured glasses using very fine strands of kelvar (kevlar??) The idea was that the kevlar strands would stop almost anything but a bullet, and since they were open to the air, they would never fog up. I thought this was an absolutely awesome idea, butI've never heard another word about them. Has anybody else??
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I have been using Oakley brand eyewear for years now for work and play. Saw a sample lens once that had been shot at with a 20 ga. shotgun and no penetration. So much for safety. I picked up some antifog stuff at a home show that works really well but is basically just soap! Wipe some on with a cotton rag (or corner of T-shirt) then buff. Used to get a couple of runs out of my goggles at the slopes with this method using the dispenser soap! The Oakleys I use now are the Mumbo model with the Heater lenz in Persimmon which I use for indoor/outdoor. My favorites are the 0.6 models in Persimmon which are becoming hard to find. The only time I get stuff in my eye(s) is when I don't have them on! Also saw some goggles once that were a fine wire mesh which looked interesting for close quarter dirty work.
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I have used Rain-X with pretty good results. Make double sure that the residue is buffed off and dry before wearing the glasses.
Sherrill , Inc. has eye protection called Buggz, about $20. The goggles eye pieces are made of a screen mesh. A buddy wears them and swears by them.
http://www.wtsherrill.com
Tom
*I use "See Spray" lens cleaner from Amway. The can is about the size of a spray breath freshener and only cost between $3.00 or $4.00.
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Try goggles made specifically for paintball. I played in tournaments for a few years, and either bought or was sponsered to wear the two major brands available to the sport: JT and SCOTT. Both of these are very comfortable to wear all day, in the heat or rain, and use a "thermal" type lens (dual-pane) and WILL NOT FOG. They are heavily vented, will take a paintball directly at about 400 f.p.s. with no effect to the lens, and can be worn over glasses.
Remember now, we wore these things in the worst conditions, running, crawling, and sweating from stress. They are very tough and very well designed.
I prefer the JT Spectra's. They were a little more comfortable on my face, with better peripheral vision (about 210 deg.)
I don't know how important that is to woodworking, but getting shot in the A** because you can't see is a drawback.
The Scott's were a little slimmer and lighter but did not seem to fit me as well, but some guys love 'em.
The JT's were about $60, and the Scott's were $10 less.
I never thought about using them before, but the other day I had to drill into an "I" beam over my head and these were the only things I had around. Now I'm going to keep an old set in my box permanently.
Replacement lenses sell for about $15.
Brent.
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I have had good luck with Rain-X too. Works great on the windshield too, Rain washes the grit off so the glass doesn't get damaged with the wipers.