safety glasses??why??

[Nitroxextreme]

Safety glasses are a must not only in the pit, but anytime you are near a robot.

I do have one question though....why do you not like safety glasses that much? If you are so against them in the pits...I can only assume that you do not wear them during the build season.

I can understand where you may see a cheap pair as uncomfortable and causing messed up vision. However, If you have been involved in FIRST for any time then you would definately have a set of you own safety glasses that you could forget you were wearing.

[Cody Carey]

Why do I wear safety glasses? Because I enjoy being able to see. I have had numerous peices of metal thrown/shot/rubber-banded into my eyes, by robots, power-tools, and teammates. My safety glasses are the only reason my eyeballs is still in my head.

[capof541]

safety glasses on my team thats the first thing we stress being we started out at a trade school it was what we learned walking in the door so it was beat in our heads and the NASA engineers never let us for get that. but safety glasses have save me in other ways like grinding disks flying at me, but my favorite was when i put my glasses on my head cause i couldn't see and was under our tongue for our flipping arm in 2005 and the engineer manually pressed the button on the solenoid and 25 pounds of pressure came flying down on my head it luckily hit my safety glasses

We were doing some milling with a bad rotary table, and the endmill shattered.... Sending very hot pieces of Carbide into my glasses, arms, and chest. Come by 114's pit some regional and I'll show you the scars.

Had I not been wearing my glasses, I probably would've lost my eyesight.

(as a second note, NEVER use a rotary table unless you know it's in perfect condition... it was scary to have that endmill fly apart.)

[yodameister]

Originally Posted by Nitroxextreme

I can only assume that you do not wear them during the build season.

Please do not assume such things...It makes an *bleep* out of you and me . Eye safety was our number one priority when we were working in the shop. I am very strict about safety, I'm sure that s_forbes will agree with this statement.

[Eric Finn]

Although I have never personally had anything fly at me or seen anything flying at somebody (other than poof balls) in FIRST, I still wear my safety goggles.
I recently bought a $6 pair of safety goggles which fit over my glasses at a local hardware store, I can see perfectly out of them, and they don't fog up.

I see no reason not to wear a pair of safety goggles. If the only ones you have access to are scratched up and dirty, then get your own.

[s_forbes]

Originally Posted by yodameister

Please do not assume such things...It makes an *bleep* out of you and me . Eye safety was our number one priority when we were working in the shop. I am very strict about safety, I'm sure that s_forbes will agree with this statement.

I would completely agree with that statement!

[sporno]

i was the same way i didnt like saftey goggles.. them i dropped a can of aircraft remover and it sprayed my face .. now aircraft remover takes paint off of metal .. it was on my face and in my eyes.. now i awalys wear satey goggles.. one time i was wearign them and a drill bit broke and hit the goggles..just wear them.. $@#$@#$@#$@# happens

[prettycolors91]

why wouldn't you? I LOVE my safety glasses (i painted them our team colors--which makes it even more fun). I'm a chairman's kid, so I don't have to worry too much about flying things, but when your rushing around regionals trying to find your mentors to give them scouting before your next match and your not paying attention, bad things can happen. safety glasses prevent the badness from taking away your vision.

plus, they come in especially handy when eating pineapple with steak knives at the steak & ale reseaurant (story by PM request...)