Registered: Nov 1999
Location: bright side of the moon.
Posts: 996

I work in an environment that is not to friendly to electronic equipment in general, let alone something that is as fragile as the visor. So i've had to develop certain practices to protect my visor. For example, a small change is always putting the visor in the padded case upside-down and in an inside pocket to prevent fine metallic dust from getting into the visor. I also never take out my visor unless i'm in an environmentally controlled room. Oh ya, i work in a steelmill.

What do you the rest of you do and do you have any tricks to using/protecting/improving your visor for your jobsite?

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Bellevue, Wa, USA
Posts: 72

I work at an engineering firm, and we were doing a lot of work with some metal finishers, one large airplane manufacurer to be precise, and took my IVD with me everywhere. As far as keeping it safe? In this case, that meant dry, because you don't want caustic or Ti etch landing on that delicate screen. I basically kept it in my front pocket, or a breast pocket of my shirt with the cover on. The only other thing that I needed to do, was to remember where it was. I didn't want to crush it against a tank as I was taking samples, and I didn't want it falling out of my pocket into the finishing tanks. I think it handled beautifully, it even took a fall that mashed up a corner pretty bad. After having a heart attack, I turned it on, and it worked perfect! The unit even took some small liquid spills on it. All in all I think the visor is a fairly tough dude...

Registered: Jan 2000
Location:
Posts: 45

I use my Visor for keeping notes on my work, contacts for my own purposes (outside of the main business database), datebook, procedures and expenses primarily.

I use it visor in a extremely dusty conditions (we design and manufacture specialty laser printer toners) but I have not had any problem with that so far. (Vibrate cellulose please... )

I also live in norther Vermont and the temperature the other night was well below -50F (the thermometer bottomed out so we don't know how low it actually got but it was damn cold!) NOT including wind chill and the Visor has survived daily transitions from the heated buildings (70F) to the outdoors (-50F to 20F typically). I don't think it ever drops to the low end of that range itself but I do use it outdoors, fingers permitting, when I need to look things up or make entries so it has been withstanding the temperature shifts nicely.

I have covered the screen with "Keep a Memory" clear self-adhesive laminate I got at Walmart to protect it mainly from the stylus. This is a lot less expensive than 'official' screen protectors and works great.

Lastly, I dropped it (~3ft) and dinged the Springboard (empty) cover (I've asked Handspring for a replacement but haven't heard back yet if they are available). Other than that it didn't seem damaged.

Since then I've made my own custom wallet case for it (fake leather over aluminum) which contains the Visor, bill fold, checks, change, credit cards, drivers license, a real pen (for the checks), plus two batteries. The whole thing is just a tiny bit longer and thicker than the visor and just about the width of a set of batteries wider so it is a nice small package. The varies parts (e.g., aluminum, money, batteries, pen, cards) all function to protect the Visor incase I drop it again.

The goal being: Bungles bounce... (TM)

And, it is a three fold design so I can slip it into the cradle without taking the Visor out of the wallet which is very nice. (Yes, I could have bought a wallet, but engineering and manufacturing is my thing so I get play with this... )


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Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Sydney Australia
Posts: 1883

how using those plastic bag for sandwiches. there are machines out there that can seal those bags airtight.

It's not a pretty sight, but at least you visor is protected against anything except impact...

Also since the material is cheap you can trow it away when it gets dirty or if you need to change batteries...