[Elecraft] Optivisor?

[Rick Dettinger]

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