"Terry Spragg" wrote in message
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SNIP
Last time I took my son in for a fresh prescription, I wound up in an
arguement with the occularist who doubles as a dispensing optometrist in
his "studio" about the benefits of polarised clip on magnetic sunglasses
as opposed to the 100 dollar "UV protecting" non-polarised patented
mounting stylish crap he was pushing. He actually drew me out for about 5
minutes in his office in front of customers, refusing to believe that
polarised were possibly worth about 50 bucks or less, while the UV dark
lenses he was offering were not actually worth any more than dime store
shades.

I went out to my truck to get my polarised sailing glasses to demonstrate,
wherupon he lost interest in the discussion. My 18 year old son was
mortified, probably still is.

Strangely, polarised glasses and mirrors do not get along very well, nor
do they with LCD displays.

Terry K

Many of the LCD displays, such as radar and chart plotters, have a
polarizing overlay
already on the from thefactory. Wearing polarizing glasses does work to well
as you have discovered.

When I was a student aircraft pilot I soon found out that clip on or snap
down polarized sunglasses on
my regular perscription glasses when flying into the sun resulted in some
real pretty rainbow patterns and
not much visability through the plexiglass airplane window. All the stresses
from heat forming the curved
plexiglass window became visible with the polarizing glass in place.

Doug K7ABX

"Doug" wrote:


"Terry Spragg" wrote in message
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SNIP
Last time I took my son in for a fresh prescription, I wound up in an
arguement with the occularist who doubles as a dispensing optometrist in
his "studio" about the benefits of polarised clip on magnetic sunglasses
as opposed to the 100 dollar "UV protecting" non-polarised patented
mounting stylish crap he was pushing. He actually drew me out for about 5
minutes in his office in front of customers, refusing to believe that
polarised were possibly worth about 50 bucks or less, while the UV dark
lenses he was offering were not actually worth any more than dime store
shades.

I went out to my truck to get my polarised sailing glasses to demonstrate,
wherupon he lost interest in the discussion. My 18 year old son was
mortified, probably still is.

Strangely, polarised glasses and mirrors do not get along very well, nor
do they with LCD displays.

Terry K

Many of the LCD displays, such as radar and chart plotters, have a
polarizing overlay
already on the from thefactory. Wearing polarizing glasses does work to well
as you have discovered.

When I was a student aircraft pilot I soon found out that clip on or snap
down polarized sunglasses on
my regular perscription glasses when flying into the sun resulted in some
real pretty rainbow patterns and
not much visability through the plexiglass airplane window. All the stresses
from heat forming the curved
plexiglass window became visible with the polarizing glass in place.

Doug K7ABX

Turning your head 90 deg may help to be able to see the instruments.

grandma Rosalie

Rosalie B. wrote in
:

When I was a student aircraft pilot I soon found out that clip on or
snap down polarized sunglasses on
my regular perscription glasses when flying into the sun resulted in
some real pretty rainbow patterns and
not much visability through the plexiglass airplane window. All the
stresses from heat forming the curved
plexiglass window became visible with the polarizing glass in place.

Doug K7ABX



EAch spring, about now, Family Dollar Stores gets this huge Chinese
sunglasses display box they just set up vertically with cardboard
cubbyholes in it full of cheap sunglasses in little cellophane bags. In
those cubbyholes is the finest $1 sunglasses on the planet. They have
black plastic frames with wrap-around, very dark plastic lenses that are
held onto the frames with two little metal screws at the top of each lens
that rusts just awful, ensuring they won't come loose. Plugged onto your
head, they provide a solid, horizon-to-horizon, top-to-bottom, no leakage
around the sides sunglass that, for some odd reason, has a neutral kind
of color transmission like smoke-grey-green. They are extremely
comfortable to wear, with only a little plastic-bending to adjust the
back ends of the earframes to fit your head.

At the princely sum of $1, WHEN, not if, you dump these sunglasses over
the side, you look at the horrified onlookers in their $489 Italian
Sunglass Hut-at-the-damned-mall....shrug your shoulders, and go below for
a nice, new pair. Unlike the expensive brands, when they get that damned
little scratch right dead center in your main vision where the
chartplotter's most important data is viewed-without-tilting-the-scratch-
out-of-the-way, you jerk them off your face straight overboard and put on
a new, unscratched, perfect-vision pair....for $1.

Don't look for them, however, around Charleston, SC. I've bought every
pair in the display for the "sunglass locker" since I found them, in any
Family Dollar Store I come to. There's 2 pair in each car, 3 in the
truck, 3 in my cubbyhole on the boat and a drawer full for backups.....

They're just that great....

oh, and UGLY! Makes you look like Dave Garroway or Steve Allen....(c;

Larry wrote:
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At the princely sum of $1, WHEN, not if, you dump these sunglasses over
the side, you look at the horrified onlookers in their $489 Italian
Sunglass Hut-at-the-damned-mall....shrug your shoulders, and go below for
a nice, new pair. Unlike the expensive brands, when they get that damned
little scratch right dead center in your main vision where the
chartplotter's most important data is viewed-without-tilting-the-scratch-
out-of-the-way, *you jerk them off your face straight overboard and put on
a new, unscratched, perfect-vision pair*....for $1.

Don't look for them, however, around Charleston, SC. I've bought every
pair in the display for the "sunglass locker" since I found them, in any
Family Dollar Store I come to. There's 2 pair in each car, 3 in the
truck, 3 in my cubbyhole on the boat and a drawer full for backups.....

They're just that great....

oh, and UGLY! Makes you look like Dave Garroway or Steve Allen....(c;


"you jerk them off your face straight overboard and put on
a new, unscratched, perfect-vision pair"

Say what?
Are you admitting to polluting your waterways and encouraging others to
do same?
Shame on you!

Larry wrote:
Rosalie B. wrote in
:

When I was a student aircraft pilot I soon found out that clip on or
snap down polarized sunglasses on
my regular perscription glasses when flying into the sun resulted in
some real pretty rainbow patterns and
not much visability through the plexiglass airplane window. All the
stresses from heat forming the curved
plexiglass window became visible with the polarizing glass in place.

Doug K7ABX



EAch spring, about now, Family Dollar Stores gets this huge Chinese
sunglasses display box they just set up vertically with cardboard
cubbyholes in it full of cheap sunglasses in little cellophane bags.
In those cubbyholes is the finest $1 sunglasses on the planet. They
have black plastic frames with wrap-around, very dark plastic lenses
that are held onto the frames with two little metal screws at the top
of each lens that rusts just awful, ensuring they won't come loose.
Plugged onto your head, they provide a solid, horizon-to-horizon,
top-to-bottom, no leakage around the sides sunglass that, for some
odd reason, has a neutral kind of color transmission like
smoke-grey-green. They are extremely comfortable to wear, with only
a little plastic-bending to adjust the back ends of the earframes to
fit your head.

At the princely sum of $1, WHEN, not if, you dump these sunglasses
over the side, you look at the horrified onlookers in their $489
Italian Sunglass Hut-at-the-damned-mall....shrug your shoulders, and
go below for a nice, new pair. Unlike the expensive brands, when
they get that damned little scratch right dead center in your main
vision where the chartplotter's most important data is
viewed-without-tilting-the-scratch- out-of-the-way, you jerk them off
your face straight overboard and put on a new, unscratched,
perfect-vision pair....for $1.

Don't look for them, however, around Charleston, SC. I've bought
every pair in the display for the "sunglass locker" since I found
them, in any Family Dollar Store I come to. There's 2 pair in each
car, 3 in the truck, 3 in my cubbyhole on the boat and a drawer full
for backups.....

They're just that great....

oh, and UGLY! Makes you look like Dave Garroway or Steve Allen....(c;

Can you insure them as Ray-Bans or Guccis, as I need the money!

Dennis.

Don White wrote in news:RQdTf.45837$VV4.714369
@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca:

Say what?
Are you admitting to polluting your waterways and encouraging others to
do same?
Shame on you!



Yes, along with the thousands of tons of **** 500 ships dump in the harbor,
I'm trying to slowly, but surely, fill it with plastic sunglasses. I also
**** over the side to make sure the water tastes bad at home....

You need to get outa that little yacht club and go down to the container
docks and look around. Those big ships aren't dumping distilled water
overboard....at all!