LASIK Surgury Good. Now I need some comfy Safety Glasses.

[airrj1]

I just had LASIK surgery on my eyes last week. What a cool deal this is. I had the surgery at 2:30 in the afternoon, went home, slept overnight and then drove myself back to the office @ 8 am the next day without glasses on. Talk about instant results. :yeah:



Now I need to get myself some good comfy safety glasses. Anyone have a really good set that they recommend? I have been on 3M's site and they have a good selection. I only have one safety shop in the area that stocks many glasses. Most of the shops that I have been to don't stock many good glasses to try on.



Thanks.

[Jim Nilsen]

It's a dilema isn't. You had prescription saftey glasses that were comfortable and protective now you don't need them and you are looking for the alternative that most others use everyday.
I can assure you that any brand or type of saftey glasses that are nonprescription will give you one kind of problem or another if you buy them from mass produced models. People I know have tried them all and there just isn't such a thing as one size fits all.
The best advice I can give you is to get new lens's for your old glasses. It is not very expensive and you will have the same comfort you are used to. You will also be more familiar with the vision parameters they give you. New styles of saftey glasses sometimes look really cool but restrict some of your vision at times that you won't be aware of until you already have them.
Check with your employer to see if they have an eyeglass program to pay for them. Most do and if they don't try talking to them about doing so.You may be able to help everyone to comply with the rules if they have better glasses.

I could keep going about eyeglass safety but I will stop here
since I have been known to get off of the point which I wouldn't want to poke anyone in the eye with that isn't wearing their saftey glasses.

It's good to know you value your EYES.

Jim Nilsen

[CarlC]

For a universal set, the Uvex U2 S3100 is pretty good. It's has a lens frame that is curved to better fit the upper cheek and has small extensions on the lower-outboard sides to aid in side protection. As Jim mentioned, they are not as good as a fitted pair, but significantly better than the generic hard plastic lens/frame type.

[airrj1]

I never thought about changing over my prescription glasses over Jim. Good idea, but actually I wasn't at all happy with my prescription ones.:banghead:

I don't need them for my day to day job, since I sit behind a computer 90% of the time. I am looking to buy a few pairs to keep them around and make them convenient. When my wife had her eyes corrected a few years ago she bought 4 pairs, one for the basement, one for the kitchen, one for the truck, and one for her fire gear. This way the chances of not grabbing glasses is much less since they are always easy to grab. And actually she has one pair that fits me prefectly, but there is no marking on them that I can find and I don't know where she got them.

Thanks for the ideas. I'll keep searching.

[Jim Nilsen]

I second the recommendation for the UVEX glasses. Of all of the companies that I have seen for safety glasses they have the best optics and the best scratch resistance. Most of the people I have worked with that have them like them the best.

Also for those that have fine scratches in their glasses you can get plastic cleaner and polish from 3m that works wonders on them and will restore optical clarity. The polish is also what you need to clean up your tailight lens's and other plastic parts on your dash and other places.

Jim Nilsen

[David Pozzi]

I used Weenol polish on my glasses, cell phone screen, & instrument panel plastic. Works great but it might remove the coating on glasses if used too much.