Bringing Light to Aging Eyes (updated 5-22-2007 w/Flashlight Ordering Information)

Great idea Mark. I have nearsightedness. So I can see up close, so I take the glasses off to see the lines. Not the best or safest way.

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I guess I’ll have to rig up a light onto my carving chisels. LOL, No fooling. Thanks Mark

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Mark, when I carve sometimes I use a magnifying head visor with a light attached to it. This seams to work well because the light goes where my head goes even if I don’t use the magnifying part. It will run 8-10 hr. on a set of batteries.

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Mark -

Great idea! I can see a lot of applications for this. My eyes are getting dim and I need all the light I can get!

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Mark, perhaps you need one of these. LOL

or these

I use the latter and find them invaluable.

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Great solution. I got the bifocals and still find that I can focus better without them on, especially if I’m looking for that splinter I just felt go into my finger.

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Mark -

Great idea! I can see a lot of applications for this. My eyes are getting dim and I need all the light I can get!

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Strangely – I was with the optician last week getting my check-up and I was complaining about not being able to read my ruler clearly.

So she checked my reading vision (as opposed to driving) and it checked out A1. But some of the other tests she did support that as we get older we need more and better light. She suggested changing the fluorescent lighting (which the standard yellow/white light 3500k) to the blue/white tubes 6000k.
I wonder if anybody else out there has heard about this or made the change, or even is using the 6000K tubes from the outset.

Marc where did you get the endoscope/light thingy – it beats the hell out of my torch taped to my laminate trimmer

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Hey folks, here is an item number from www.harborfreight.com
Item #92506-0VGA

The light is made by “Gordon” and is a flexible flashlight with magnetic pickup tool. I took off the magnetic clip, and just used the flashlight. The current cost is $6.99, plus shipping of course. I found the flashlight in the Wichita, KS Harbor Freight store, so if you have one of those in your area, you can probably find it.

Here is another Gordon flexible shaft flashlight from Harbor Frieght that is $9.99.
Item #95414-0VGA

That’s about $35 in Canadian I think. Ha Debbie!

thanks for asking,
Mark

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Don, you crack me up. Can you imagine me working with one of those contraptions! ha ha. That telescope thing might work better if it was attached to Dick’s carving gouges.

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The fourteen years I have been with my wife she has always had bad vision. Then two years ago when she was taking a photogrphy class she kept seeing a big blob in the grain scope. She would get fusterated at me and everybody else because we did not see this blob. Luckly our eye doctor was a photographer, and when she told him about this blob he took a closer look in her eyes and found that she cataract in both eyes. She was 36 and had the eyes of a 90 year old.
She got a lense replacement put in her eyes and all of her vision problem are gone. She only has 2 complaints. 1. Because of the power of lenses she can not read anyting unless she is were prescription reading glass, or it’s 5 feet in front of her. 2. The lense are designed to only work for 10 years because they are normally used on much older patients.

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Great Idea….nice bit of form fitting, too!!!

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these are great ideas—not that I need them… no… not me!!

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