Can These 50 Year Old Safety Glasses be Restored?
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- Опубліковано 16 кві 2021
- Regardless what you do safety glasses are a good idea, but modern one just don't look as good as they did in the past. In this video we'll be restoring a pair of safety glasses from yesteryear, and keep our eyes as gorgeous and safe as ever before!
Safety glasses are great when soldering too, especially if you solder your own circuit boards. Remember to stop over at www.pcbway.com for all your circuit board needs!
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That was fantastic, couldn't stop smiling all the way through. I can't wait for the catchy-thing-ma-hig 2000 kickstarter to go live, I'll back it for sure.
Haha! Maybe I’ll release the plans for them so everyone can do their own 😉
Gotta like those old Nerdy looking safety glasses they still are cool and remind us old folks of Clark Kent AKA Superman
Best Intro ever
I can't believe I sat threw this without speeding it up
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No other safety glasses have ever seen so much love, including mine!
Unless you blast yourself in the face with things on a regular basis at least you don't need to do this too often 🙂
Nice polish walk trough + great editing.
That's a lot of grits, so much sanding. But I love the adjustability of the glasses, makes it worth the work.
And the intro was charming! 🤓
Indeed, but every grit after the first one is pretty quick as you’re just knocking down the previous grit. You need to go through the steps to get a good result though.
@@SwitchAndLever True, but when it's that many steps to get where I want, I start looking for an elevator...
@@CrudeButEfficient that's one problem with the world, everyone wants a quick fix.
@@SwitchAndLever Also true. Time is rare and finite resource...
Great project. 👍 If you want to "unyellow" the transparent rubber there's a process for that too! UV is your friend!
Yep, peroxide and UV. Though I've seen some examples of it making the plastic more brittle too, and I did not want to take the chance. If it was a computer case it's one thing, but as these will be used and flexed on a regular basis they could be more prone to breaking.
@@SwitchAndLever Seems sound. And, a chance to 3D scan and 3D print with... rubber? ;D but yes, I understand. These will forever be cool safety glasses. Great job!
My Grandfather would be proud. Seriously, those are some really cool safety glasses. Thanks for posting.
Great project and actually very fascinating, the video production is absolutely top notch. Oh, and of course Daniel's unmistakeable humour.
Cheers! Nice to see you tuning in for the premiere 🙂
10/10 on the soundtrack
Thanks! I quite liked it myself 🙂
Great film, so well done. Super entertaining. Glasses look so cool. Mahalo for sharing!🙂🐒
Cheers!
Although I personally do like modern frameless safety glasses these sure did turn out excellent!
I'm the kind of person who'd just forget glasses on when I leave the shop, so at least going out in society I won't look like a total goof with these on, just like a 75% goof, and that I can live with!
A small suction cup on a stick would have made holding the lense for sanding much easier.
That’s true, they weren’t difficult to hold on to at all though.
The beginning made me laugh
I'm glad my misery brings joy to people 😜
good idea
Wow epic intro CGI!
Thank you 🙂
Good ole Biltema
Can’t go wrong! Not even with hot dogs!
@@SwitchAndLever All those after school supply runs to Ersboda to Biltema, grocery at Willys, and finally finish it out with a stop at Systembolaget. Kinda miss UID...
So now I sit out on my quest to find a 50 year old pair of safety glasses
Found another identical pair to those on a flea market just a week or so ago. Depending on where you live they could be common or uncommon I guess...for everything else there is eBay 🙂
In to tool hoarding.... nah, doesn't sound lik...
Actually I can't even bring myself to joke about that.
That was amazing! I can't imagine how long that sanding took. Also I'd happily watch a compilation of S&L intros if you fancy making one!
The sanding was actually very quick. Maybe ten minutes total per glass? Most of the time is spent with the coarsest grit, then every successive grit takes less and less time as you're just knocking off the tops of the scratches from the previous grit. 🙂
Maybe I'll make an intro compilation sometime, but that would be a huge undertaking, unless I just download all my UA-cam videos and make a somewhat lower quality version from the compressed video files. Not ideal, but neither is opening up 70+ projects 😄
Man, didn't know you were Swedish until you knocked out the Biltema solvent, that thing is magic 🤣
Indeed it is! Though I have noticed that it has an adverse effect on some plastics. I have a real nice box with a clear lid that now looks all frosted because the Label Off ate the surface of the plastic.
@@SwitchAndLever I'm not completely sure what's in there either, it's definitely not strong as acetone but with some plastics (especially pvc and pa) it's rather aggressive.
@@andy_liga As I wrote in the video, it's Limonene 🙂
Very nice. And stylish. How long did the polishing take?
Yes
Maybe ten minutes per glass? Most of the time is spent with the coarsest grit, and then every successive grit goes faster and faster as you're just taking off the tops of the previous grit's scratches. Polishing with the polishing compound is pretty quick too, a few minutes. If you have access to a big polishing wheel you can speed this process up significantly of course.
@@SwitchAndLever Oh that's not bad at all. 👍
Peroxide on the side shields?
I thought about it, but I’ve heard some unpleasant info on how peroxide may make plastics more brittle so I didn’t want to risk it.
12 000 grit 😯
Micromesh has its own grit system, starting at (I think) 300 and going up to 12000
@@lui5gif Its a lot of grit!
As luisgi says MicroMesh grits don't map 1:1 to regular sandpaper grits. There are conversions online, if you google. In regular sandpaper grit it would be something like 5000, but it's not a straight conversion, as the shape of the grit on the MicroMesh sheets are different than regular sanding grit too.
@@SwitchAndLever Ok, what can you do ey...?
I couldn't watch this because I didn't wear my safety glasses and went blind. Nice music tho :)
Who would have though that Reg Prescott would have managed to have a son?!
Buwahahahaha amazing intro.
are you still in Italy? the cereal box is from an italian market
Nope! But I brought some of that cereal with me when I left 🙂
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 I see........
It took me forever to get the Belle Delphine joke😏
Who is Belle Delphine?
@@SwitchAndLever Wait... You put the "Sell on eBay" around a bowl of washing water, so I thought it's a joke about a egirl selling her bath water. So sorry.
Ah no, just a silly joke. Nothing to do with electronic girls. Also that doesn’t sound sanitary.
@@SwitchAndLever Got it, so silly of me to assume :)
Real question: how to prevent condensation on the lenses. Done the saliva trick and it doesn't work for me
Ek Cat Crap works great and is the only stuff that the opticians at my clinic recommend.
why have i read "wet sanding time" as "wasting time" O.o