Thread: Cheater Lens for Auto Helmet

i've found that a 1 1/2 or 2 x magnification lens is handy if you're sitting at a bench welding all day in a reletively fixed position, but if you're crawling around on, under, around or in something your vision tends to 'swim around' a bit and can be distracting .

Welding lenses are a fixed focal length,sorry no zoom like an auto camera.
Dioptre lenses are available from welding suppliers.

To find the strength you need- what works is to pay a trip to the chemist shop (or any other retailer that sports a reading glasses tree)

Try the various glasses on until you find the strength ,ie
1.5 through to 3.5.that suits.

Once established ,you ask for that strength dioptre lens at the welding supply shop.
Not all autohelmets may have the ability to take the lenses readily.

On some helmets ,I had to bodge a fit with some fairly crude means -gaffer tape?

cheers
Grahame