Who makes the best pair of shaded safetly glasses?

I'm curious as to what people wear and their preferences. Thanks in advance.

clansing1 said:

I'm curious as to what people wear and their preferences. Thanks in advance.

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I like the starlite brand mirror finish. They are light and comfortable.

Oakley

I like Uvex ..local welding shop cheap 8 bucks a pair ..

koldsteele said:

I like Uvex ..local welding shop cheap 8 bucks a pair ..

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I'll second that..............

Let me preface that I am very fond of my eyes. I know people who have lost their eyesight in accidents or suffered eye injuries from not wearing safety glasses. I know some people will scoff at paying above $5 for a pair of safety glasses, but then again that is a very narrowminded view when you consider the importance of eyesight...it's irreplacable, priceless, and you can't operate equipment blind.

UVEX safety glasses (I used to use the Genesis models). They are excellent cheapies, generally made in the USA (except the mirrored ones) and available in clear, smoke, and IIRC, green for torch use...if you can't afford a higher price safety glasses, or need backup pairs or semi disposable pairs...choose UVEX.

Personally I now use a pair of Revision "Sawfly" glasses. Very high ballistic rating, good coverage, high optical quality, very scratch resistance. I use them every day, 8 hours a day. Just under $100 for a pair w/ clear and smoke interchangable lenses. I've got a pic from another board where a pair of these glasses stopped a very large piece of shrapnel from killing/maiming an officer in Iraq. The lenses themselves are replacable for $20 apiece if you loose one or damage it beyond repair and there is a clip in prescription carrier that can be filled at your eye doc if you need eyeglasses.

And that's just for general safety glasses use. For special applications, such as using a grinder or weedeater, I have a very nice Uvex Bionic faceshield. I also have a pair of UVEX clear goggles for times when I need something sealed against dust.

I like the oakley m style. they are expensive but eye sight is priceless!!

yup, then ESS and Revision

Norton 180, or mod#18030. Gray, medium or dark green, amber, clear. Can be found online for about $3.50 a pair or 35 to 45 bucks for a box of ten. Lightweight, wraparound design. I've used them for about 25 years and won't buy anything else. When a pair gets scratched up, give them a toss and get another one out.

I as well like the uvex genesis. They saved my eyesight. Had a winch cable on a bending machine snap while working pipeline. The cable came back at me and hit me square across the eyes and sent me to the ground like a sack of bricks. The safety glasses hit upper cheek bones so hard I ended up having raccoon eyes for a week or so. There was a cable burn across the lenses but that was it.

Very quality safety glasses imo

I have a pair of shaded goggles, don't know the brand, but they do keep the dust out of your eyes on windy days, ok everyday here. Foam padded and vented. a little bigger than regular safety glasses, but that's better than flushing a ton of dust from your eyes every night.

They have about twice the lens area as a regular safety pair, they aren't that bad looking either.

I use the cheaper glasses but when I'm around things in the shop that can bounce or might fly off or out of something I have also put on a welding helmet with clear or shaded lenses, and for this reason, my nephew who worked in a machine shop for years had a small piece of metal fly off what he was working on and went up his nose nostrile and into his eye, and he lost his eye out of the deal, I try to wear both the safety glasse and the welding helmet when I'm around those situations. I later found it its not that uncommon of an injury to have happen, when it may come from above I'm not too concerned with the helmet but if I'm working over it and the stuff is below my face, I always grab the extra protection.

While we're on the subject, what does everyone else do about fog up of the lenses? The wrap around style I thought was better for protection but seem to always fog up from either my body heat and sweat or from the temps in the building I'm working in, the other style that has the vents as I'll call them work better but I don't think they have the same protection, how do others handle this?

95zIV said:

Oakley

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Ill second that

If you are like me and use reading glasses and when you are doing work like carpentry, welding or just fixing something and you're constantly putting your glasses on and off. Well now you can get safety glasses, tinted or clear with a magnifying lens in the bottom of the lens. +2 suits me, so that when you look down things that are up close are in focus. They meet the Australian standards for industrial eye protection. They cost about $25 Australian.

diggerop said:

If you are like me and use reading glasses and when you are doing work like carpentry, welding or just fixing something and you're constantly putting your glasses on and off. Well now you can get safety glasses, tinted or clear with a magnifying lens in the bottom of the lens. +2 suits me, so that when you look down things that are up close are in focus. They meet the Australian standards for industrial eye protection. They cost about $25 Australian.

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I had a pair of these and had to get rid of them. I work on draglines alot and it would give me bad vertigo at heights.

I wear "Rivet" safety sun glasses. They are $30 Canadian a pair and last me about a year..... Till I mangle them lol
I've used them for about 6 or 7 years
I believe they're made by 3M

blitz138 said:

I had a pair of these and had to get rid of them. I work on draglines alot and it would give me bad vertigo at heights.

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Thats the last place you'd want vertigo. :dizzy

http://edge-eyewear.com/united-states/#/HOME

I use the "Brazeau" Polarized gradiant grey glasses. Very scratch resistant and I believe they are the only polarized safety lense available.

crossfire makes nice safety glasses and the have them in polarized versions to.