Re: Beards and Hair

Now they have wire "rings" that fit inside the eyepieces.  They're
spring-loaded and goofy looking, hard to describe.  Imagine the bow and
earpiece of your glasses being a "C" shape where the open end is toward
the bridge between the lenses.	That "C" shape is compressed, fitted
into the eyepiece of the mask and released so that spring tension keeps
it in place.  The bridge is a spring, so that folding the mask (or just
storing it for the newer "store flat" masks) doesn't screw them up.

I had still seen those pop out, but but less often, and much less
painfully.

--Flak

On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 16:56, Jim Callahan wrote:
> what do the new ones look like?
> 
> those are the same ones that almost maimed me as well...always losing 
> the darn things inside the mask too!
> 
> jim
> On Friday, August 2, 2002, at 02:37 PM, Flak Magnet wrote:
> 
> > I particularly enjoyed almost losing an eye to the older ones (early
> > '90's) that mounted in the mask using two wires on the interior of
the
> > eyepieces...
> >
> > You see, when donning the mask, the wires had this tendency to pop
> > out... and since you're putting the mask on quickly...
> >
> > On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 15:01, Jim Callahan wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Actually, the way the US Army handles it is by issuing
> >>> specially made optical inserts put into the mask
> >>> itself.
> >>>
> >>
> >> And those are a TREAT! let me tell you :)
> >>
> >> jim
> >>
> > --
> >
> > --Flak Magnet
> > Hive Fleet Jaegernaught
> > http://www.geocities.com/flakmagnet72
> >
> > "You don't install Linux on the desktop for the same reason
> > you don't stick table saws in your kids' bedrooms, or give
> > a contractor a squeeky hammer to build your house. Real men
> > use the table saws, and let the kids use the squeeky hammer
> > to bonk each other on the head."  --  Seen on Freshmeat
> >
> >
> 
-- 

--Flak Magnet
Hive Fleet Jaegernaught
http://www.geocities.com/flakmagnet72

"You don't install Linux on the desktop for the same reason
you don't stick table saws in your kids' bedrooms, or give
a contractor a squeeky hammer to build your house. Real men
use the table saws, and let the kids use the squeeky hammer
to bonk each other on the head."  --  Seen on Freshmeat