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| Operating Glasses | What The Heck, I can’t see what I’m doing And now you are reading this page. The question is why are you here….? It has nothing to do with occupied at all because this is the – WTH I can’t see what I’m doing page. Yeah, a problem for a lot of us modelers, suddenly you realise that whilst trying to find that small mark that represents where you want to drill the No 80 hole, you are frowning…? Yep, eventually it happens to us all, the dreaded, slow and inevitable deterioration of ones eye sight. For the majority, that happens around the 45 mark. That’s when you buy your first pair of reading specs. There are those lucky blighters who don’t need them….so they wouldn’t be wasting their precious occupied time reading this page. This page is exclusively for us blind bastards. I hate it that as the years move along the reading specs end up as prescription glasses. But it does, or did for me. But, all is not lost, there is the secret weapon and its much better than the alternative, you know the alternative, you’ve seen them at the demo stands at exhibitions. Them older guys looking like miners with their thick grey bands around their heads, sweating away. You stop by their table and they look up with a smile and lift the goggle thingy up, looking more like, well, I’ll leave that up to what you think they look like, but its even funnier when you engage in conversation. Now, because of the hotness of the band, the weight of the darn contraption, he actually lifts the whole piece of equipment off his head, with a sigh of relief too it always seems. This is when you get to laugh, all due to the hair, its all crinched you see, its called bandhair. Something like hat hair after wearing a baseball cap all day, but worse, because these bandy magnifier things are not only ancient technology from the 1960’s but they make you look stupid too. I know, I know, you don’t know what alternatives are out there, but that’s understood here, we know you can’t see. So welcome to the blind buggers' modelers (BBM’s) web page. Here you will find the perfect alternative to those heavy weight sweat bands. Something a tad more sensible in design, light of weight, adjustable to various spectacle frames, but they work the very best on the larger size frames. They come in various focal lengths or degrees of magnification, if you understand that better. Tech stuff like 1.5X or 2.0X. Stop buying from those tool hucksters who peddle less than the best quality of tools, devices and equipment. These handy magnifiers work well, exceptionally well, easy to carry with you and are used by the likes of jewelers, watch makers, bank note engravers, (as well as bank note forgers), mustn’t leave them out, be a riot if we do. The list is long and us crowd of course, the modelers, who are into fine scratch built parts and detail work.
The images, if you can view them, “gentlemen, please place your miners thingy bands on your head to view the images now”, should be self explanatory. You can get hold of a pair by sending an e-mail to the address below and we’ll get back to you. The cost of a set of these is £25.00 UK pounds inc P&P to UK, other countries as appropriate , £22.00 UK pounds if bought at a show. You have a choice of magnification factors from 1.50X, 1.75X, 2.00X, 2.25X, 2.75X and 3.50X. I would recommend either a 1.5X or 2.0X. These are perfect for 2 and 4mm modelers. The working distance, that is the distance from your eyes to the model when using these magnifiers, would be 20 inches when using a 1.5X and 10 inches with a 2.0X. My preference is a 2.0X. My reasons are simple. First what I see is larger, this is major, and second, I find that when I am at my occupied bench with a chassis or loco body shell in my hands, that 10 inches is more or less the usual distance from how I sit and the height of my work surface as I have always used. I find it very natural. Likewise its about 10 inches from my eyes to the 3 link couplings when using my shunters pole from over the back of the layout during an exhibition. The angle of the magnification piece, which is made of a synthetic material, not glass and just like your regular lenses in your specs, can be adjusted and swings about a hinge from the stem that sticks out. They wont make your head sweat nor give you a strange haircut either. One important point, they fit preferably to larger frame spectacles. The two curved wire springy clip doodad things can be adjusted such that the distance from the centre bridge and the ends of the curved doodads can be made smaller to accommodate the smaller lenses, but bigger is better in this case. The images will explain what I’m saying here a little clearer. Oh, bugger, you can’t see this web page can you. That’s because you need magnifiers. J Oh, one last thing, they come with a handy dandy little case, faux crocodile of course. Be kind to your eyes, lessen the strain you put on them. You’ve got just the one pair given that you’ve looked after them, make them last the rest of your occupied days and model, finally, in some sort of comfort. Miners helmet thingy’s, c’mon guys, get with the program. Please use the Contact us page if you require further information | |||||||
Last updated : July 06, 2008 12:11
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