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The Solar Panel Simulator!
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. |
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