eye pro for OVER glasses?

[jmoore]

Don't have enough money in my flex plan to pay for a dedicated set of shooting perscription glasses. For that matter, my script is so complex, don't know how it would work out in any "wrap around" format! (My "basic" glasses run between $600 - 800!)

So - I'm looking for something wrap-around that would simply fit over my current glasses (looking like a dork - but WhoTF cares:). I'm a Low Speed/High Drag, civvy type - so I don't need any massive combat-oriented system:)

Any and all info would be greatly appreciated!

Back to the Search function:)

john

[TAZ]

Look for those intended to be used in and around chemical labs. Here at work where I'm around Chem labs we have safety glasses that fit over regular scripts. Some are ginormous glasses and others are goggle type with a cut out for the ear pieces. May want to give AO Safety's website a look see for ideas (just as a disclosure my parent company does own AO Safety so take my recommendation with a grain of salt). I have no idea what kind of impact ratings they have though. Primary design for these is to keep chemicals out of the eye, not projectiles. MAKE SURE YOU READ THE FINE PRINT.

On a different note, just grinding your lenses costs $600 or the whole lens frame assembly? A couple of companies make shooting glasses that can have prescription inserts snapped into the frames behind the protective lenses. Rudy, Revision, ESS and I believe the SI Oakley M-Frame 2 can be done this way.

[jmoore]

Originally Posted by TAZ

On a different note, just grinding your lenses costs $600 or the whole lens frame assembly? .

Frames run about $150 - so the rest is the lenses - d/t severe astigmatism, bifocals, etc. All of this is influenced by a previous retinal detachment and associated laser surgery to spot-weld the damn thing back in place:)

Thanks for the suggestions.

john

[Kuraidi]

just spotted these in amazon may help worth a shot for 10$. just ordered my self a couple to test out.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ls_o00_s00_i00

[incognito]

I have to wear goggles over my prescription glasses, I use the ESS ones.

http://www.opticsplanet.net/ess-stri...s-goggles.html

[uwe1]

I think you are paying too much for your glasses...

$600-800?!?

[jmoore]

Originally Posted by uwe1

I think you are paying too much for your glasses...

$600-800?!?

:suicide:

Been wearing glasses for 55 yars! Tried to join the Marines in 69-70, and they refused based on my vision. Have since had torn & detached retina and reattachment - and they say my "good" eye is prone to follow in the tracks of the bad one!!!!! As they say - growin old ain't for pussies:)

john

[Cesiumsponge]

jmoore, I've used the Cocoons brand wrap-arounds. I don't know if they come in clear but I bought two polarized pairs for training...a copper tinted one outdoor bright light and amber for indoors and low light. It ended up working fine for me. They aren't cheap though, about $50 apiece. They come in various sizes and you buy the smallest size that'll fit the external dimensions of the frames you plan to wear them over.

Good glasses cost good money. I think folks are either detached from the true cost of well-made frames and optics because they have it covered by insurance or they go to their Lenscrafters and Walmarts and buy cheap frames and glasses and expect that is the norm. Like any other consumer product out there, you tend to get what you pay for.

I run a decent pair of sturdy titanium frames and opted for Carl Zeiss digitally surfaced lenses. It's about $600 and that's with a discount because my ex was an optician. They're simple single-prescription digital sculpted lenses on a 1.59 polycarbonate and an upgraded Zeiss AR coating. Instead of simply creating lenses with sphere, cylinder, and axis measurements, they also took into account the physical structure of my face, the frames, and how they sit and modified the RX to compensate. It includes pupillary distances to the bridge of my nose, vertex distance, the pantoscopic angle, and occular height, etc. Afterwards, they spent about an hour tweaking the frame to perfectly fit my face and compensate for my lopsided ears and lumpy head.

The first time I got glasses at a Lenscrafters 2-for-1 deal, the floor staff spent about 10 minutes with me in total...but it only cost me $300 for two pairs of glasses which didn't hold up past a year! Now that I know my facial measurement, I buy cheap $30 glasses online for work and situations where I'm bound to scratch the hell out of my cheaters and wear good glass for all other occasions. I finally gave in last year and spent an assload for Oakley Straight Jacket frames and prescription digital lenses to match. I am very glad I did. It's amazing that you can run prescription lenses with that degree of curvature. Hurrah for technology!

[TangoSauce]

Originally Posted by uwe1

I think you are paying too much for your glasses...

$600-800?!?

That's high to me, but they are damn expensive! It's the lenses that get you every time. Just think, new glasses every couple years you can get laser eye surgery for the price of glasses over a period less that a decade.

OTG, Oakley for goggles. There's some other related that you can stumble like those.

Not too sure about shades. Or ballistics that are non-mil/leo.

Fortunately for me, mine were free.

[JSantoro]

On the presumption that you currently have glass lenses:

If your perscription allows for the use of poly or high-index poly lenses that meet the following standards for impact resistance (many, if not most, do)...
ANSI Z87.1
MIL-DTL-43511D clause 3.5.10
MIL-PRF31013 clause 3.5.1.1
EN166, 169, 170 & 172 (European standards...)

..., then you can add a set of $2 3M clear side-shields to the existing glasses and, viola! Appropriately protective perscription eyewear that avoids the distortion of extra layers, and little to no $$$ spent that you wouldn't be spending already.

If overglasses are still the answer, anything that meets the ANSI standard will do, but go for something that's as distortion-free as you can/wish to afford.