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Anyone Try This Stuff For Helping With Eye Protection Fogging?

  • 15-08-2013 10:40pm
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    Mark#1
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    Hi All,

    I rode motorbikes for 10+ years, commuting and for fun, and tried a few anti-fogging methods in that time, but thankfully landed on Bob Heath Anti-Fog Spray pretty early on, and ended up using it on my helmet's visor all the time, and it really worked very well. It was a small white metal can, and it was a foamy-type stuff, not a liquid.

    My helmets were an Arai Giga and a Giga II, both pretty resistant to fogging anyway, but whenever I had to seal the visor tight, they would fog to some extent, even with the vents at the top of the visor fully open, particularly in cooler weather.

    I'd thoroughly wash the visor (especially the inside) with warm water and a tiny bit of washing up liquid, using a soft cloth (possibly a J-cloth IIRC), then thoroughly rinsed the visor with cold water, and finally fully dried it off with kitchen roll. Anything else used to dry the visor never produced as good a result as kitchen roll.

    I'd then spray the Bob Heath stuff onto a crumpled up piece of kitchen roll, and apply it to the inside of the visor, sort of like I was polishing it.

    Once a week was usually good enough to keep me fog-free, more in winter, when the temp difference was bigger between the air outside the visor and inside my helmet.

    I'm talking completely fog-free here - not even a hint of fogging anywhere.

    Motorbike helmet visors are polycarbonate, so the Bob Heath stuff would be fine on the usual polycarbonate lenses used in airsoft goggles.

    Not sure where sells the stuff in Ireland now, but I always got mine from Mountjoy Motorcycles in Dublin. Here's a place in UK selling it:

    http://www.tilleysmotorcycles.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=366


    My son is using mesh goggles for now, but I'm not letting him continue - I'm researching now to find the most appropriate fog-resistant, polycarbonate, full seal, reasonably-priced goggle for him.

    Currently of interest are:

    Smith Optics Boogie Regulator - http://www.landwarriorairsoft.com/acatalog/Smith-Optics-Boogie-Regulator-Gogle-Clear-EB_BRG01CL12.html#.Ug1Fe21SPCY

    Bolle X90 - http://www.military1st.co.uk/15632500-bolle-x90-bpsi-tactical-goggles.html

    Bolle Tracker - http://www.military1st.co.uk/15645000-bolle-tracker-glasses-clear-black-frame.html


    Anyway, hope the Bob Heath stuff idea is worth checking out for some of you guys.

    Mark


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