Model Railway Forum

hi, playing with N gauge joiners, and z gauge, becoming taxing. I have a head magnifier with changeable lens, but is there anything you guys recommend. See they use 2 pairs of glasses on Repair shop. Not yet tried that. thanks. john

Two pairs works.

AH, well, thanks. Not tried that, but trying to fit insulating joiners on N gauge track today, gave me great grief. Still not solved prob. Train belts round one loop, but throw a point, and it crawls. Driving me mad. Got all the insulated sidings done, but now, new prob. Thank the lord we are in lockdown.

John, does your eye prescription allows you to wear the cheap reading glasses?
Available in standard strengths 1.0,1.5, up to 4.0. Try a set in the 3.0 to 4.0 range as this gives greater close focus. Plenty of cheap ones on eBay from China maybe as little as £2 a pair - what I paid last time I bought some.

Hi, Steve, many thanks. john

My silly prescription, due to lady wife was made into one pair, as opposed to the 2 pairs i had before. Cant get used to them, but have to tow the party line. Chemists over here sell them cheaply, so i can try in their shop, if we are ever allowed to go out again. Heavy lockdown at present. Only allowed to travel one kilometre, from home, with signed authority form. No sign of this ending, the reverse in fact, as 8 cases in nearby village.

I bought some strong reading glasses on Amazon.

When I was still working I used a pair like these for fine work, you can get them up to +4.0 magnification just a quick flip up or down. I may still have them somewhere but like a few other odd and sods they seem to have disappeared when we moved.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/KIKAR-Power-Di ... B00DBGRO9K

Richard

Failing that, would G scale be easier?

Eyesight and co-ordination is a problem. It has taken me mny months to get myself ready to successfully tackle handrails on a loco and that is in 7mm scale.

I have a set of those multi-lens magnifier glasses (the better ones, not the cheap tat) but find I have to take my regular vari-focals off to use them, then within a very short time I get a headache.

My lad in his wisdom bought me a pair of those binocular ones you see doctors wearing over their regular specs. They are no good as they focus parallel straight ahead so you can only use one eye at a time and not focus down your nose onto something.

At my last eye test I got the guy to script me for a pair of modelling glasses that I could use at up to arms length when wiring under the boards, etc as vari-focals are absolutely useless looking upwards. They lasted five minutes before I started feeling sick.

I have no idea what the best answer is to ageing eyes and modelling close up stuff.