are mesh glasses safe? and should they be used?

[heroshark]

Re: are mesh glasses safe? and should they be used?

I've found its not always cheap/low quality brands which are brittle .I would say mesh is potentially dangerous in extreme situations eg :high fps ,close up ,brittle ammo. In a realistic situation your only going to have the potential of the first hit shattering and hitting the eye .Any successive hits will not be in the same spot, and your eye would be closed from the initial hit . Generally its much like getting a fly in your eye while riding a bike, annoying but certainly not damaging ,I've played on most of the times its happened to me.

[messy]

Re: are mesh glasses safe? and should they be used?

Cant stand goggles with plastic lenses as they fog up regardless of what I try.. I have some heroshark mesh goggles and there fantastic they have had countless direct hits to the mesh and whilst it is quite a shock to feel not strike the mesh very rarely does anything come through (shattered BB's, paint etc..) at a recent game I had a direct hit from a .40 BB going over 330fps (equivalent to over 500fps on a .20) I felt it but nothing came through :D . I always carry eye wash with me just incase any particles do get through (had to use it once as some t**t was using those exploding BB's...) if you buy the propper mesh goggles/glasses with the correct guage mesh you will be fine.
However these goggles:

are a pile of kack and are quite dangerous as when I owned some each pair would have the frame broken (from BB's striking it) causing the mesh inserts to fall out (4 pairs of goggles later..) I dont go near polycarb lenses as they fog up and in most cases dont fully seal the eyes...

Bottom line with mesh: buy tried and tested products and you will be fine if your worried just add an emergency eye wash to your kit...

X-ray

these are what I use, I have taken a direct hit to the mesh before - it dented but not overly so, it was a burst and most hit my cheek - i didnt even notice the mesh had been hit till i took them off at the end of the day. Even tho the dent was nowhere near close to penetrating i replaced them with an identical pair and iv never had any issues, mesh isnt loose or anything like that.

Whats more - i see lots of ppl use mesh all the time and i alos see people wearing shooting glasses and while I have never seen anything dangerous with mesh goggles I ahve all to often seen ricochets bounce off of a wall or floor and go in the eye area from either behind (near the ear) or below. Twice now (all be it over many years) Iv seen a game stop where a player in shooters glasses has had to go off to hospital with a damaged eye. Never seen that with mesh.

[heroshark]

Re: are mesh glasses safe? and should they be used?

frame strength Is another ball game all together. Its a simple case of how much punishment can thin framed eye wear stand up against .I've seen and read about many diffrent high & low end brands cracking from an impact even from new let alone after a few years use. Then again I've seen the same frames take multipul impacts over years without fail. Its a simple case of player preference and what their willing to risk.

[javaoverride]

Re: are mesh glasses safe? and should they be used?

I use mesh for CQB never had a problem but I made My Face/eye protection so i know its not made from cheap rubbish i spent hours looking at eye protection solutions and mesh was the only way i could go that suited my needs i even got a pair of ess and cut the lenses out for my mask but fogging was a massive issue most people at my site use mesh I have never seen anyone have issues, not saying there hasn't been any but none that i have seen i personaly think they are safe.

[Lee Hill]

I swear by my revision Sawflys, I have never had even so much as a near miss with them on, but on the subject of mesh, not so long ago when I was at The Mall in Reading, a bb I fired whilst in the basements, actually penetrated the mesh on mask that was being worn by one of rentals, imagine the shock I had when she screamed "my eye!!" The marshals to their credit were on the ball, stopped play immediately and escorted her to the safe zone. That incident and all the other dangers associated with mesh ( paint spalling, fragments of bb's etc) have made me very untrusting of mesh glasses/goggles. But hey, if you want to use them, knock yourself out, it's not my eyeballs possibly being burst at the end of the day.


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[heroshark]

Re: are mesh glasses safe? and should they be used?

The sensei mesh masks tend to use very thin mesh ,but even at 350 limit I've never seen a breach of one on a single strike.

[Retroanaconda]

Re: are mesh glasses safe? and should they be used?

Glasses for me, ESS ICE - wrap around nicely and don't fog up. It's all a game of risk assessment at the end of the day, there is always going to be a risk of that freak shot that gets behind your glasses or through your mesh - all one can do is minimise that risk. I'm happy with the level I've reduced it to by using my glasses.

The only ones I know of with standards are designed for using chainsaws . Other wise most of them are made in China with little though to safety .

When I used to work day in day out with chainsaws I used to get rid of the stupid mesh shield on the helmet and use my airsoft glasses - always used to find the sun would glare like a bastid through that mesh and I felt my eyes were better protected with glasses. Only issue was sweat running down the front of the lens!