After reading the answers of some of the people to my thread about detailing engines I just wonder how many are are over 80 like me?
71. As I just posted in your first thread, the optivisor made a big difference for me, when applying detail parts.
Mike.
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73 for me. I have a magnifying lamp I got very cheap at an electronics place. I do find it supremely valuable for detailing, wiring, small kit assembly and even painting the little people. I've probably been using it for ten years.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
48 years old
I didn’t post to your item but I’m 83 and after dual cataract surgery earlier this year I get buy very nicely now with regular reading glasses and a flip down X3 magnifier plus a good work light. I might add I only need the flip downs for really tiny stuff.Before surgery X5 didn’t work very well with any kind of lighting. Mel My Model Railroad http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/ Bakersfield, California I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.
45. But age is catching up
shane
A pessimist sees a dark tunnel
An optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel
A realist sees a frieght train
An engineer sees three idiots standing on the tracks stairing blankly in space
NVSRR 45. But age is catching up shane
The bad news is, it catches you and then races ahead and taunts you.
I am 68. One sure sign of genuine old age - my life insurance agent doesn't call me any more.
Dave Nelson
I though I would mention that there was also a color correction with the cataract surgery. The top cap on my pre med eye drops were orange before the surgery and pink after surgery. My wife confirmed the caps are pink. Mel My Model Railroad http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/ Bakersfield, California I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.
52, but I live like I am 25. Doing my best not to let age catch up with me, but I know that it will.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
the old train manI just wonder how many are over 80 like me?
Over 80, or over 80 like you?
Maxman over 80 period!
57. Eyes require reading glasses after having perfect vision for 45 years. Need to wear the glasses for seeing the details on the moving train. Lighted magnifying lamp is essential for any type of detail work.
The way my eyesight is trending, I wonder if the hobby will still be enjoyable when I'm 70.
- Douglas
DoughlessThe way my eyesight is trending, I wonder if the hobby will still be enjoyable when I'm 70.
I never needed glasses to see close-up detail work until I was 45. Now I get a new pair of prescription reading (close-up) glasses every year.
It is necessary to keep the hobby enjoyable.
62. For about 10 years, I need readers for any detail within arms length. I use higher power magnifies for tiny work, like slivers! Dan
Well I'm definitely the odd one out at 21...
74. 75 next month.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
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Chronological age: 68
Mental age: 9
I use the Walmart reading glasses -- $2.00. I can't pay more because I've lost or broken about 30 pairs.
York1 John
SeeYou190 52, but I live like I am 25. Doing my best not to let age catch up with me, but I know that it will. -Kevink
-Kevink
I played real ice hockey until I was 70. Keep on living life to the fullest.
38.
It is a very curious age.
York1I use the Walmart reading glasses -- $2.00. I can't pay more because I've lost or broken about 30 pairs.
My eyes are so different up close that these do not help.
There is an eyeglass place here in town that will do two pairs with prescription lenses for $25.00 in very ugly frames. These are my reading glasses.
44 here. Been wearing glasses forever and no complaints. Hard to believe there is such a variety of ages here. Great news on the hobby!
RR_Mel I though I would mention that there was also a color correction with the cataract surgery. The top cap on my pre med eye drops were orange before the surgery and pink after surgery. My wife confirmed the caps are pink. Mel My Model Railroad http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/ Bakersfield, California I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.
Was it teh same stuff? I've been on most eye drops known to man and there are different things opre- and post-op. Post op I'm always on the pink one, it's a steroid to prevent inflammation. I've been on some orage cap one, though not sure what they would do for cataracts, it's a glaucoma medication. The antibiotic before has been a tan cap. I have blue and green right now. I'm sort of figuring it out, the color is a family or class of medication, the intensity is the realtive strength, it appears. Good thing I'm not colorblind, because the names change so often I've taken to remembering that I do the blue once in both eyes twice, green one in the left eye once, etc.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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the old train man After reading the answers of some of the people to my thread about detailing engines I just wonder how many are are over 80 like me?
I'm quickly approaching 82 (January). I had laser therapy for my glaucoma followed by cataract surgery with insertion of the new tri-focal intraocular lenses. I now don't need the glasses that I have worn since I was 10 yrs old and only need reading glasses for very close work. It's a new world for me.
Joe
Edit: I did notice a real change in color perception after my surgery and now no more arguments about colors with the wife.
63 here. I need glasses, I am farsighted. May need hearing aids, probably do.
Average BP 102/61. HR average 42. Fat 18% Muscle 44% Extremely fit, elite athlete levels.
Have very bad Arthritis and was used as the "worst end of the spectrum" example at a Rheumatologist symposium in Vancouver in 2010. I was also touted and tested as to how I do everything right to limit the impact of the disease on me.
Impact sports hurt a lot so I am limited as to how I maintain good health and fitness.
Like any other organ in the body, eyes are greatly affected by fitness level.
Semi extreme sports and activities gave way to MRR and I am glad Dad introduced me to this great hobby 60 years ago.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
As for age, 54, have been wearing glasses since I was 7. Bifocals for about 10 years now. Optivisors, magnifiers, etc don't really work to me - I've lost about 75% of the vision in my right eye from glaucoma. Now the left eye is acting up and my doctor is at his limits. There's one more thing he wants to do, was supposed to happen this past Monday but that's been pushed off to next monday. Anything further, he's getting me a referral to the big famous eye hospital to see if they have any ideas. Kind of scary since any loss there puts me completely out of commission. I'm not ready to retire or give up most of my favrotie things to do. I've been pretty outwardly calm about it but I'm a lot more worried than I've let on, and more than a little scared. I've had some many things done across both eyes over the past 3 years, all of which have either helped or just did nothing, but I can't help thinking that eventually the streak has to run out, no matter how good my doctor is.
This working from home since March has also adversely affected my health, what little exercise I got walking in and out of the building, and taking the stairs instead of the elevator, has completel vanished. I am literally falliong apart. I only hope I make it to 80 and beyond.
I'm 15 years away from being over 80! That's rather sobering when you think about it. I always thought that being 80 years old was centuries away!
I have used an Optovisor for years. My wife kids me when I forget to take it off after doing some work at the workbench.
My latest challenge is that my hands have started to shake, but I find that tends to settle down after a few minutes of concentrating. Or maybe it's the second rye and coke that does the trick!
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Welcome to Shaky Mel’s World Dave, I didn’t get the shakes until a year a go or so. I guess I’m still doing OK its only hit and miss so far, some days no shake at all and other days just can’t do the tiny stuff.Oh! to be in my 60s again, everything started going south at about 69. If it doesn’t hurt then it died and fell off.Mel My Model Railroad http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/ Bakersfield, California I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.
79 with 9 months to go to 80. Dual cataract surgery 15 years ago. Glaucoma and two eye drop prescriptions per day. Using all kinds of magnifiers. Still loving this hobby and just pushing on having lots of fun while ignoring the problems
Steve in Texas
stevetxStill loving this hobby and just pushing on having lots of fun while ignoring the problems
Good attitude!!!
I will enjoy this hobby till the end, even if it is looking at my models sitting on the shelf in the old folks home.
Which reminds me, the wife and I took a much more senior person than us to see one of those homes where you buy the suite but can go down for meals and activities and such. I asked the lady if you can buy side by side units and knock the wall out between them. The lady said why would anyone ever do that and of course, I told her I would need more floor space for my MRR. She looked at me in disbelief and my wife said: "you think he's kidding"?
Carry on to the end!