Comments on: DIY Steampunk Goggles – Tutorial

By: dantes_torment

dantes_torment — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:41:17 +0000

I honestly did this several months ago. Only with the bottoms of two Red Bull cans and some electrical tape. If you do it that way, you can work the plastic (I use the clear part of a CD case, because it works best) so that you need no glue or anything. it’ll pop right into that “basin” on the bottom of the can.

By: Kraken Onironauta

Kraken Onironauta — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 06:42:08 +0000

LOL, man, totally forgot to say it, but I love the project! It looks really cool! I’m going to try it out and get me one of those thanks a lot for the link/tutorial!

By: Kraken Onironauta

Kraken Onironauta — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 06:39:14 +0000

I'm an architecture student, and I build lots of models for projects. Home Depot here carries several kinds of acrylic plaques, the smallest ones are about 30x40 cms, and you can find them in 2 mm to 5 mm, most of the time. Cutting acrylic is not all that easy, but you can mark your cut with a cutter and they also sell this hooked cutters for acrylic hat makes the cutting easier. Or you can just cut and cut and cut with the regular cutter, it works too. You can even get the acrylic tinted.

If you know an acrylic mayorist or producer, they might have left overs from bigger pieces they sell really cheap or give away for free. If you need to glue it, plastic cement or UHU do the job, though there's special acrylic cement too.

By: Sviatoslav

Sviatoslav — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:26:53 +0000

Nice work on the goggles, very inventive and resourceful to look at escutcheons for the frames.

You can buy replacement round lenses for welding goggles and safety glasses which are made out of some sort of plastic. Perhaps purchase some of these and cut them down to the correct size if required. They are quite cheap, like $2 for a pair.

Cheerio!

Sviat

By: Jake Hildebrandt

Jake Hildebrandt — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:09:26 +0000

Must...find...escutcheon...

Anyone know any specifics that might help a US-based maker find such things?

By: Lasairfion

Lasairfion — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:19:15 +0000

I wonder if you could not get some of those small round magnifying glasses, and use the ‘lenses’ out of those. It’d be useful for doing close up work.