Safety Glasses

We dont allow viper or guarder glasses at op-tac as we found the same problen. We managed to get vipers to shatter at impacts just over 350 fps. Propper safety glasses from b&q tho are generaly spot on as they are made to resist much harder impacts than a bb.

EN 166 F - 6mm 0.86g steel ball at 45 m/s
Really that's kinda the minimum you would ever want to be wearing and tends to be what "cheap" (£5-10) glasses/goggles are rated at.

EN 166 B - 6mm 0.86g steel ball at 120m/s
Pretty much totally safe for airsoft barring some kind of actual fault in the lense.

I've not really looked into getting full ww2 kit yet and I've only gone to local walk ons anyway as such I've been using a pair of grade 1 surplus ESS V12s and they are great pieces of kit, came in at around £20-25.

Been strongly considering getting another pair to do some work on, wrap some leather around the frames and replace the strap with something a bit more 1930s looking to end up with something looking a bit more like a pair of period snow/motorcycle/tanker goggles.

Still probably not at all accurate for a random soldier to be wearing such a thing in a battle but with eye wear everything else should be second to protection.

I use heroshark mesh goggles at the moment they are modded bolle glasses, il be painting them partially in flesh colours to minimise their profile appearence

Bought a pair of Bolle Tracker 2 glasses this afternoon. They seem to be tougher than Iron Man's nuts.

I've got a few tons of FogTech that I use on my motorcycle visor. Might go for a run tonight and see how I get on with them; generally impressed so far though.

Like Wattsy said though, if anyone's new to Airsoft and looking at Goggles, I'd exercise caution with the Vipers. They don't feel safe to me at all.

I use heroshark mesh goggles at the moment they are modded bolle glasses, il be painting them partially in flesh colours to minimise their profile appearence

Mesh (as with any goggle really even if rated far higher than needed for airsoft) is always worth testing out first.

Heroshark seem to be pretty good quality but the cheaper brands of mesh goggles out there are sometimes woefully bad, especially when put up to the extreme accident test of a 500fps+ shot at point blank.

We've had reports of a few heroshark goggles breaking when tested, I recommend you always test mesh goggles, no matter the brand.

Personally I also use advancers, solid and low profile goggles, smaller type glasses like ESS ICEs leave huge gaps between my face and the glass. I really don't bother with making the goggles looking like ww2-goggles, mainly because I use them for other loadouts and they're always going to look out of place, but everyone needs to wear one, so I can look past the appearance with goggles.

I also use ESS glasses, mainly because they will take an insert for prescription lenses. Yes there is a bit of a gap around them, but not enough for a bb to get in, and they don't fog up like goggles. Been shot in the face at very close range loads of times in those, no problems at all (apart from the bits not protected by the glasses!).

Cheers
Martin

i use the revison sawflys as like martins they take a prescription insert, and they been shot to shit and no marks what so ever , there is a minor slight gap at the side, but in 5 years wearing them i never had a problem, and sine i started using the revision anti fog wipes i never have any fog issues , even when i have a helmet and neck gaiter quite high

but like folks have said test your lenses no matter what make or cost before you use , a few in the 34th use mesh but even if i could i would not due to a few minor incidents when folks using cheap bbs etc that shatter sometimes and gone through mesh.

I have a pair of guarder with prescription glasses, I was shot at point blank range by a 14 yrs old youngster with a heavy trigger finger and took 5-6 BB straight in the eyes, No injury, No marks to the glasses, Guarder come highly recommended by me.

Please note don't drop them and then step on them, that tends to break them..........

I too use ESS Ice glasses and have around 4 sets which I take as spares or for those who forgot theirs. 3 interchangable ballistic lenses in clear, yellow and dark. As issued to the Brit Army in Afghanistan. Aw yeah and the best reason I use these is they were free

+1 for ESS. Especially if you get their no-fog cloths as well, which are just brilliant.

Ditto for ESS, very good kit.

I've had two pairs of Guarders in the past - lenses are fine but both had frames that were shot to bits! Note that the safety standards apply to lenses not frames so while your eyes are protected (the important bit) you may have recurring expense.