Magnifying Glasses

Item number 174061561783 on the auction site. Have any of you tried them?

Haha. Yes my brother in law bought me some for a laugh. You have to bring the object nearly up to your eye, the magnification is amazing. If you get some do not look at your fingers through them. You can see every cell in your skin.

Steve.

In some ways that's better than my reasonable quality Russian ones, where they focus just beyond arms length.
OK when using fool long pliers I guess, but not much use for working on PCBs.
I ended up buying an old binocular dissecting microscope for that.
Bill

Steve Jordan on YouTube reviewed some a while back that looked reasonably good, the ones you're looking at are £4 something, postage, ebay fees, profit for seller, manufacturers profit, you're left with something you'd find in Christmas cracker.

No they are not they are fantastic & even have led lights built in. The only problem is you have to bring the item very close to see clearly.

P.s where do you buy your crackers from.

Steve.

Many years ago i bought a slightly more sophisticated version with lower mag for performing eye surgery. It also cost several hundred pounds back then. They do take a little getting used to when your own hands are within the field of view for accurate depth movements.
That pair came with the option of prescription lenses which would have made them person specific and rpevented other staff using them. When my eyesight deteriorated to needing glasses I had the local optician make me up a pair of specs with a flip-down extra mag lens pair for 3-4x mag. Much lighter to wear and more practical for the work I was doing switching between normal and extra mag.

But for under a fiver these have to be worth a punt.

pgk

For several years I have used +4x ready reader glasses in front of my prescription pair.

Cost next to nothing and for the electronics stuff I use them for the magnification of 4x is enough.

Punt taken..........................

I have a visor type with basic magnification, a flip down double lens then a twist down single lens outside for the right eye. All for a tenner a few years ago. I now see they all have to have LED lights to jack the price up. the advantage of this over the ones with several sets of loose lenses is that you don't lose the extra lenses.

Did you know, good magnification can be achieved by looking through binoculars in reverse. (One eye of course).

Ideal for detecting shrapnel in the finger ends etc.

Bear..