On Jun 27, 2008, at 8:03 AM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
A word of warning to all the young gentlemen who want to look
"cool" out
there, I've been wearing Optivisors for 30 years now, ever since I
handled
my first SMDs. As a single fellow on the prowl I always wanted to
look good.
One day I jumped up from the bench in the lab to head into the front
office
at the company where I worked. As I walked through the facility,
several
attractive young women smiled broadly at me. I winked back and even
chatted
up one or two, wondering why I was suddenly so noticeable.
My errand done, I returned to the lab to discover that I had
flipped the
Optivisor up over my head without thinking about it. They work great
that
way, getting the lenses out of the way without removing the nice
padded head
band. So what the YLs were smiling about was me walking through the
facility
with this ridiculous looking contraption sticking up on my head.
Sigh!
Ron AC7AC
Another word of warning. Optivisors cut off peripheral vision. But I
"knew" just where my soldering iron was. After a 2 hour wait in the
emergency room, the doctor gave me a tube of silver sulfadiazine and
told me to be careful. 700 degrees burns very fast. Usually, I can
adjust the optivisor up slightly, so that I can also see underneath
with glasses only.
73
Rick Dettinger
K7MW
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