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Help for a guy with glasses

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Bishop (Task-Force Nightmare):
I'm also in the same boat at the moment, I used to have a good combo down for my glasses/goggles but now I have changed frames. Does anyone know if you can get prescription shooting googles like Oakley M frames with a helo insert While retaining the ANSI rating?

Cats:
Late to the party here but i'm in same situation as OP. Just have to find the best option for you and accept you'll have more problems with fog than your average player. Prescription safety goggles are best airsoft decision I ever made.

Bishop: Their website lists all the official optometrists/glasses people in the state that sell their products. If you go to one of those locations to get your glasses they should be able to accommodate you. Oakleys can be expensive though, and many glasses places sell full-seal ANSI rated glasses/goggles for use in construction,oilfield,etc.
[EDIT] I was thinking of Wileys not Oakleys, my bad. http://www.wileyx.com/About/locator/dealer-locator

(edit) apparently MIA chewed up my post and spit out a ton of random html for no reason, so i fixed it.

luke213:
I actually built something a month or two ago that may help. I'll need to take pictures to show the whole of the build but I'm super tired today and not going to run down my camera etc today.

None the less I took my old school helmet. Ran a piece of small clear tubing around 1/4in. diameter through the top of the helmet and out the front right above the goggles in the center. I left around a half inch hanging down past the helmet edge. Then I ran that out a hole in the rear. Built a little circuit with a switch a double 18650 battery box, and a small squirrel cage fan from a computer around 60mm wide from memory. Then I adapted that to the tubing so it blows air through the tube and out the front when it's on. The batteries and fan ride on the back of the helmet out of the way, and you can run any goggle you want so long as there is a vent in the top to push the hose through when you put on the helmet.

I've run it for a couple games so far, and I need to harden the system it's pretty much proof of concept level now. But it works great, you can run any goggle with it and it's pretty sweet. My only complaint is it requires me wearing a helmet which is fine as long as I'm not sniping. I always run a helmet unless I've got the bolt gun, in those cases I typically run a boonie hat with ghillie mesh and veg etc. So I need to build another version that somehow works with that. But that's another day's project.

If guys are interested it's cheap and fairly simple to build, just solder some wires and buy some parts and you've got a functional helmet fan system for around $5 or so in parts plus of course batteries if you're going to run 18650's like I do.
 I'd be happy to write up a thread later when I've got some time if there is interest.

Oh and I forgot one of my complaints on fan goggles was that the battery life sucked, like a couple hours. I suspect this setup will run several days though I haven't been able to test that yet. I have however run it for 8+ hours without any issues in game. So I'd say it's a win, even if I did have to change the batteries after a full day I'm ok with that;)

Luke

Cats:
I'd definitely be interested in seeing that mod. I've seen a few mods elsewhere where people wire-up 20mm fans directly to their goggles, one of my mates tried the same thing but his didn't turn out to be very effective.

luke213:
Well my idea spawned from the fact that I finally bought fan goggles and they were ok but they had some serious problems for my play style and headgear. They didn't work well with my helmet at all, the battery life was pretty terrible, couldn't tell if they were on or off etc.

I'll put some pictures together it's a really simple design, nothing fancy but it seems to work very well. And my current setup is a single tube, but you could easily rig up dual tubes if you wanted more air flow into the goggles and maybe route one on each side. But thus far I haven't found that necessary so I've left it with one. My only complaint which is minor is routing the hose into the goggles when you put them on takes a little fiddling, but it's really not bad. I also added a clasp so I can undo my mesh mask from the helmet and let it hang so I can grab some nicotine or water without taking the whole dang thing off my head which was another issue I was fighting with;)

Luke

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