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Low cost Visor Magnifier even lower cost

David Wilcox K8WPE All Messages By This Member #19466 The聽 former low cost Visor Magnifier that I notified everyone about previously is now available from American Science & Surplus for the low cost of $7.95 each.聽 I bought one for my grandson and then ordered another one for me as a back up to take to buildathons..... nothing lost if lost or given away.聽聽 See聽 sciplus.com and go to Headband Magnifying Visor.聽 There is also a 15% discount for signing up with them.聽 What a deal! I have no affiliation with this company, just a happy purchaser in the past. Dave K8WPE
billcoombes All Messages By This Member #19468 I have a set of those but one of the best ways I have found to give me the magnification that I need for PCB work is to leave my reading glasses on and then put on another pair of cheap small reading glasses so that they cover the lower half of my normal reading glasses. This gives me the magnification I need and cost next to nothing. (�1 or $1 shop for the cheap 2nd pair) A Clocksmith showed me this trick. If you don't normally use reading glasses, you probably don't need to magnification but it might be worth trying. Bill - G4ERV toggle quoted message Show quoted text ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Wilcox via Groups.Io" <Djwilcox01@...> To: QRP-L Mailing List <qrp-l@...>, Qrp-tech <[email protected]>, 4 State QRP <[email protected]>, "QRP ARCI Mailing List at groups.io" <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 13:11:48 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [qrp-tech] Low cost Visor Magnifier even lower cost The� former low cost Visor Magnifier that I notified everyone about previously is now available from American Science & Surplus for the low cost of $7.95 each.� I bought one for my grandson and then ordered another one for me as a back up to take to buildathons..... nothing lost if lost or given away.牋 See� sciplus.com and go to Headband Magnifying Visor.� There is also a 15% discount for signing up with them.� What a deal! I have no affiliation with this company, just a happy purchaser in the past. Dave K8WPE
Roy Appleton All Messages By This Member #19469 Interesting trick! I'll have to try that one! Thanks, Roy WA0YMH toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 10:56 AM billcoombes <bill@...> wrote: I have a set of those but one of the best ways I have found to give me the magnification that I need for PCB work is to leave my reading glasses on and then put on another pair of cheap small reading glasses so that they cover the lower half of my normal reading glasses. This gives me the magnification I need and cost next to nothing. (拢1 or $1 shop for the cheap 2nd pair) A Clocksmith showed me this trick. If you don't normally use reading glasses, you probably don't need to magnification but it might be worth trying. Bill - G4ERV ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Wilcox via Groups.Io" <Djwilcox01@...> To: QRP-L Mailing List <qrp-l@...>, Qrp-tech < [email protected]>, 4 State QRP <[email protected]>, "QRP ARCI Mailing List at groups.io" <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 13:11:48 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [qrp-tech] Low cost Visor Magnifier even lower cost The former low cost Visor Magnifier that I notified everyone about previously is now available from American Science & Surplus for the low cost of $7.95 each. I bought one for my grandson and then ordered another one for me as a back up to take to buildathons..... nothing lost if lost or given away. See sciplus.com and go to Headband Magnifying Visor. There is also a 15% discount for signing up with them. What a deal! I have no affiliation with this company, just a happy purchaser in the past. Dave K8WPE
billcoombes All Messages By This Member #19470 Let me know how you get on if you get a chance. It certainly works for me. Bill - G4ERV toggle quoted message Show quoted text ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Appleton" <twelveoclockhigh@...> To: [email protected] Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 11:34:29 -0500 Subject: Re: [qrp-tech] Low cost Visor Magnifier even lower cost Interesting trick! I'll have to try that one! Thanks, Roy WA0YMH On Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 10:56 AM billcoombes <bill@...> wrote: I have a set of those but one of the best ways I have found to give me the magnification that I need for PCB work is to leave my reading glasses on and then put on another pair of cheap small reading glasses so that they cover the lower half of my normal reading glasses. This gives me the magnification I need and cost next to nothing. (�1 or $1 shop for the cheap 2nd pair) A Clocksmith showed me this trick. If you don't normally use reading glasses, you probably don't need to magnification but it might be worth trying. Bill - G4ERV ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Wilcox via Groups.Io" <Djwilcox01@...> To: QRP-L Mailing List <qrp-l@...>, Qrp-tech < [email protected]>, 4 State QRP <[email protected]>, "QRP ARCI Mailing List at groups.io" <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 13:11:48 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [qrp-tech] Low cost Visor Magnifier even lower cost The former low cost Visor Magnifier that I notified everyone about previously is now available from American Science & Surplus for the low cost of $7.95 each. I bought one for my grandson and then ordered another one for me as a back up to take to buildathons..... nothing lost if lost or given away. See sciplus.com and go to Headband Magnifying Visor. There is also a 15% discount for signing up with them. What a deal! I have no affiliation with this company, just a happy purchaser in the past. Dave K8WPE
Ray All Messages By This Member #19471 It works for me on my board assembly process. Most of the time I wear 2 pair like Bill does. Occasionally I resort to 3 pair for things like 0402 resistors. If I need more magnification than 3 pair provides, I take the stereo microscope out of the box. Ray, AB7HE
Shirley Dulcey KE1L All Messages By This Member #19473 Looks like people have already bought them all. It's listed as out of stock. On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 2:25 PM Ray via Groups.Io <rcbuckiii@...> wrote: It works for me on my board assembly process. Most of the time I wear 2 pair like Bill does. Occasionally I resort to 3 pair for things like 0402 resistors. If I need more magnification than 3 pair provides, I take the stereo microscope out of the box. Ray, AB7HE
Kirk, NT0Z All Messages By This Member #19475 Harbor Freight used to have a usable, affordable magnifying visor (with multiple magnification factors), complete with an LED headlamp, for about $10. The current version, $5, is still useful, but probably less so... Glad I bought a spare a couple of years ago! Regards, --Kirk, NT0Z My book, "Stealth Amateur Radio," is now available from www.stealthamateur.com and on the Amazon Kindle (soon) toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Monday, August 12, 2019, 4:11:41 PM CDT, Shirley Dulcey KE1L <mark@...> wrote: Looks like people have already bought them all. It's listed as out of stock. On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 2:25 PM Ray via Groups.Io <rcbuckiii@...> wrote: It works for me on my board assembly process. Most of the time I wear 2 pair like Bill does. Occasionally I resort to 3 pair for things like 0402 resistors. If I need more magnification than 3 pair provides, I take the stereo microscope out of the box. Ray, AB7HE
ajparent1/kb1gmx #19483 I do like BillC... I need readers for some things +1.5 both eyes and no other astigmatism. However I can buy at the dollar store +1.5, +1.75, +2 all the way to +3.5 "readers" for doing close fine work. I Keep my nominal reader handy and a second pair I just wear over them for doing SMT work down to 0603. fast and easy solution and far less learning intensive than stereo microscope. -- Please reply on the group, no private emails we as a group get to share info that way.
David Wilcox K8WPE All Messages By This Member #19494 Be vareful of dollar store readers. I bought a 4+ last year and they are ground to 4+ only in the center. A good pair (maybe $5 to $25) are ground all the way across so you can look out of them off center and still see the board with magnification. The center ground ones I bought for $1 I can only see magnified when I look straight through the center only. David J. Wilcox K8WPE鈥檚 iPad toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Aug 14, 2019, at 12:04 PM, ajparent1/kb1gmx <kb1gmx@...> wrote: I do like BillC... I need readers for some things +1.5 both eyes and no other astigmatism. However I can buy at the dollar store +1.5, +1.75, +2 all the way to +3.5 "readers" for doing close fine work. I Keep my nominal reader handy and a second pair I just wear over them for doing SMT work down to 0603. fast and easy solution and far less learning intensive than stereo microscope. -- Please reply on the group, no private emails we as a group get to share info that way.
Terry VK5TM All Messages By This Member #19498 I find I can't wear those headbands, with or without my readers on, they make me feel nauseous. Looks like it may be time to experiment with the USB microscope for smd work. -- Terry VK5tm www.vk5tm.com ( )

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