Jim wrote

"I hope you'll at least permit the eye surgeon's use of modern
medicine to attempt to save your eyesight after a nail or a
bit of shattered, hardened steel bounces into your eyeball."



The Gerstner machinist's toolboxes are fitted with a small mirror inside
the top cover.  I understand that this was originally so that the workman
of an earlier day could see to dig metal fragments of his other eye after
an accident absent safety galsses.

Some things are well left behind us. Find some comfortable glasses and wear
them.

Ed Balko
Middletown, NJ