Optovisor Tip...........

[CJ Allan]

For those of us that still use these things.......
I've been buying them from Harbor Freight.......about $4 bucks each, and these even have a drop down lense behind the main one, so you can double the power if wanted........

Just a little heads up........I can buy 10 of these for the price of the opti-,
although I never need that many....but I do have a couple spare new ones.......

Hope this helps a little.........

 

[SamW]

Are they plastic or glass lenses?? S

 

[Roger Bleile]

This is the one I use: http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=95890

This one allows me to have 2 lenses mounted at a time. I can keep a low power one set for general work then flip down a second lens which compounds the magnification with the first lens for really close work.

RB

 

[mcrapo]

For those of us that still use these things.......
I've been buying them from Harbor Freight.......about $4 bucks each, and these even have a drop down lense behind the main one, so you can double the power if wanted........

Just a little heads up........I can buy 10 of these for the price of the opti-,
although I never need that many....but I do have a couple spare new ones.......

Hope this helps a little.........

The first one that I had was one of those. They are plastic lenses, and worked ok for a small amount of money. I have recently upgrade to the optivision with glass lenses, and boy what a difference it has made.

I think it is like a scope, you get what you pay for when optics are involved.

 

[CJ Allan]

I agree.....You get what you pay for.....

I have a 40 Optivisor in one hand right now, & and one from HF in the other.......
switching back & forth, I don't see all that much difference in to optics........

True, the HF ones have plastic lenses, and scratch easier IF ya don't take care of them....But I can buy 10 HFs to every one Optivisor.......

Now i'm going back to playing with my scope.........

.......cj

 

[El Dorado]

I mostly lurk and learn here. I do have to say one thing about this thread. Your eyes are super important, why bother with cheap Chicom plastic lenses that wear out & have poor QC when a real set will last a lifetime and not hurt your very important eyes.

 

[Powderhorn]

There is a Lieca gz4, stereo zoom scope with boom stand and ring light on ebay now.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...3616&_trksid=p3907.m32&_trkparms=tab=Watching
It has 1 day and a few hours to go.

 

[JJ Roberts]

Members of the Forum,

You may want to visit this web site for magnifiers:

ehobbytool.com

I use head magnifiers that are very light 2 oz, and they have a variety of different lenses.

Yours truly,
JJ Roberts
School of Artistic Engraving
Manassas, VA
www.angelfire.com/va2/engraver

 

[CJ Allan]

Hi Guys,

Didn't mean to take this long to get back to this......but been kinda busy..

This post is just meant to be a little heads up on getting a different model magnifying head set.....

As far as quality and glass over plastic....
I don't know anyone that still wears real glass in their corrective lenses (glasses)
Mine are plastic.....

We're only dealing with generic magnifyers here.
One size fits all..
Same distance from eye to lense....
Same generic pupulary distance, no matter how wide, or narrow, each of our eyes differ
No taking into account each eye is normally different......

Just lower cost, than the higher cost Optivisor.......

Try this......
Take an optivisor, a Harbor Freight unit , a couple pairs of those $2 reading glasses that ya find on racks everywhere.
Take all these and any other magnifyers to a good eye doctor....and have him tell ya if theres any difference in optical quality.....

I did.......There ain't....

I have at least a dozen of these cheaper ones all over our place..
On my bench....usually 2 or 3.
in My Snap-On rollaways.....in my Gerstners.......

When I need to see & do something.....I don't have to run somewhere to get a magnifyer....


Like I say......
This is just meant to help a little........
People should buy & use whatever suits them.........

That's also why microscopes are so expensive....
They have hi quality magnifying lenses in them ..
along with having the ability to adjust to whatever your particular vision needs......In "each" eye.......and zoom in and out.......That's what costs the bucks.......



Hope this helps a little....

...cj