Brazing Glasses?

[James Swan]

Right now I wear 3 separate lenses for brazing: shade 3, didymium and reading glasses. Its kind of cumbersome. These guys can make me a lens that incorporates all 3.

http://www.auralens.net/

Their salesman says that their AGW-203 is the equivalent of the shade 3 and the didymium combined.

http://www.auralens.net/m2_boroglass.cfm

Are any of you guys using this lens?

Thanks, Jamie Swan

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[Eric Keller]

I got the green ace IR 3.0 from Phillips,
http://www.phillips-safety.com/store/index.php?cPath=40_58
A cursory inspection shows that the filtering is similar to the ones you linked.
It's a fit-over, so I have to wear reading glasses underneath. I'm
pretty happy with them. I would have to consider built in readers
though.
Eric

[Hubert d'Autremont]

Hi Jamie,
I were a shade 3 Green Ace Lense that I got from Visionary Supplies.
I also got a set of shade 5 but depending on the prescription they get
a bit darker. I honestly can't tell the difference between the shades
since I have a strong prescription.
My optometrist said that Didymium is really being phased out since the
high expense of manufacture and that the green ace is the substitute.

Hubert

[Mark Bulgier]

James Swan wrote:
>
> Right now I wear 3 separate lenses for brazing: shade 3, didymium and
> reading glasses. Its kind of cumbersome. These guys can make me a lens
> that incorporates all 3.

Jamie, do you currently have the shade 3 lens as a flip-up? That's how mine are and I can't imagine living without that feature. The flip-up is polycarbonate, very light-weight, so it's not much more burden on my nose than just the didymium glasses. I love being able to see things brighter (no welding shade) that quickly, but still have eye protection and prescription correction. As opposed to just peering over the tops of the glasses, as I see guys doing sometimes.

You can get the didymium (or whatever the modern replacement for that is) ground to your prescription, but I just wear 'em over my regular glasses, which are vanishingly light (have you seen Silhouette brand, hingeless and frameless, with titanium wire temples?) The frame with the didymium lenses is not specifically designed to be a fit-over, but they fit over my glasses just fine.

This may seem cumbersome to some, but when I take my brazing glasses off I'm ready to go, I don't have to go find my regular prescription glasses that I set down somewhere.

Sorry I totally didn't answer your question, and the flip-ups are not a new technology so you must have tried them already... I'm just afraid you might spring for expensive new glasses only to find you don't like them as much as your old cumbersome setup.

Mark Bulgier

[Michael Slater]

I like the lenses, in fact it's amazing how it zaps the orange flare.  But terrible customer service.  Took forever to ship, didn't reply to emails, or would reply with three-word sentences a week later, etc.  They miraculously shipped my order after I said they had twenty-four hours to respond before I filed a PayPal complaint.    I would not buy from them again.   

[John Clay]

Hi Jamie,

I wear the same rig as you and like the flexibility of changing the
flip up shade density as a function of brass vs silver brazing, not to
mention that I seem to be gravitating towards slightly stronger
readers and would hate to lose the use of an expensive set of
prescription didymium glasses for outgrowing my current 1.5
magnification. It's a little bit fiddly, but I've gotten used to it
and when I remove the did/shade combo, my readers are in place for the
brazing inspection that follows. I have them on Crokies so they stay
around my neck.

John

On Apr 12, 4:43 pm, James Swan <js...@optonline.net> wrote: