Military Polarized Sun Glasses Kit

Swap the tint to match the light, not your eyes.

Glare off a windscreen, off water, off a wet haul road — you squint through it all morning and by smoko you have sore eyes and a headache. Then the cloud rolls in, and the dark lenses you needed an hour ago are the reason you cannot pick the track. Most blokes solve that by owning three pairs of glasses and carrying none of them.

This is one wrap frame with four lens tints that push in and out by hand, in a zip case small enough to live in the crib bag or the glovebox. Smoke for hard sun, copper for flat overcast light, yellow for dull and hazy conditions, clear for wind and grit when you want no tint at all. The temple arms unclip and an elastic head strap goes on in their place, so the same frame works under a helmet or on a quad.

Read The Option List Before You Order

This page sells three different kits under one title, and one of them is not polarised at all. The option is called Lens Type. Here is exactly what each one is.

All three kits contain the same four tints and the same accessories. If cutting glare off water or a windscreen is why you are here, pick polarized or camo frame polarized — the cheapest option on this page will not do that job.

What It Does

• Four tints, one frame: smoke, copper, yellow and clear. The lenses flex out of the frame by hand and the next one pushes in — no tools, no screws.
• Two ways to wear it: the temple arms unclip and an adjustable elastic head strap clips on in their place, for a helmet, a lid or a rough track.
• Blocks wind and grit: a removable foam gasket sits between the frame and your face and closes off the gap most sunglasses leave open at the top and sides.
• Reads flat light: the copper and yellow tints lift contrast when the sky goes grey and everything turns to mush.
• Travels in its own case: a moulded zip case takes the frame and all the spare lenses in one lump, so the spares do not end up loose in the bottom of a bag.
• Cuts reflected glare: on the two polarized options, the fitted smoke lens knocks down glare bouncing off water, wet roads and panel work.

Key Features

• Lens tints supplied: four — smoke, copper, yellow and clear.
• Lens size: 67 mm wide by 37 mm high, with an 18 mm bridge, as stated by the supplier.
• Lens material: polycarbonate, as stated by the supplier.
• Interchangeable lenses: push-fit, changed by hand.
• Removable foam gasket: lifts out if you would rather wear them as plain sunglasses.
• Detachable temple arms: swap for the buckled elastic head strap.
• Frame colours: black, or a dry-grass camouflage print on the third option.
• In the case: the frame, the spare lenses, a fabric pouch, a cleaning cloth and the head strap.
• Brand mark on the product: the temples and lenses are printed Daisy X, the model is designated X7.

Limits

No lens category is printed anywhere on these. We went through all thirty supplier photographs at high magnification. The only text on the lens is the word POLARIZED in a small box, and the only text on the frame is the brand mark. There is no category number, no UV rating, no transmittance figure and no standard number on the lenses, the frame, the strap or the case.

Sunglasses sold in Australia are meant to be marked with a lens category from 0 to 4. In plain terms that number tells you how much light the lens actually stops:

• Category 0 and 1: very light or light tint. Fashion tint, not real sun protection.
• Category 2: medium tint, a fair amount of glare knocked off.
• Category 3: dark tint. What most people actually want for Australian sun.
• Category 4: very dark. Snow and high altitude gear.

We are not going to tell you which category these are, because nobody has marked them. Look for that number on the frame, the lens edge or the swing tag of any sunglasses you buy, ours included. If it is not there, you do not know what you are getting.

These are not certified eye protection. No part of this kit is marked or tested to AS/NZS 1337.1, EN 166 or ANSI Z87.1, and no certificate has been sighted. Do not use them for shooting, grinding, brush cutting, chipping, or anywhere flying debris is a real risk — use gear that carries one of those marks and a certificate to go with it. A supplier marketing image calls the lens impact resistant; there is nothing behind that claim and we are not repeating it.

Not military issue. The head strap and pouch are printed with the maker's brand name, which happens to include the words USA MILITARY. That is a brand name on a consumer product. It is not a defence contract, not a certification, and not a claim we make.

They are not sealed goggles. The foam gasket cuts the wind and stops most of the grit that gets around ordinary sunglasses. It does not seal. Water, fine dust and spray will still get past it, and it is not a dust mask for a blasting job.

A yellow lens does not give you night vision. Every tint, yellow included, lets through less light than no lens at all. Yellow lifts contrast in dull, flat, hazy conditions. In genuine darkness it makes things worse, not better.

Not prescription and not over-glasses. There is no prescription insert and the frame is not cut to sit over your normal glasses.

Only the smoke lens is polarised, and only on two of the three options. Buying the polarized option does not make all four tints polarised. It makes the fitted grey one polarised.

Q & A

Which option do I want if I just want polarised sunglasses?

Either polarized or camo frame polarized. The only difference between those two is the frame print — black or camouflage. Do not pick no polarized, because that is the supplier telling you plainly that it is not.

Why does the product title say Polarized when one option is not?

Because the title was written around the range rather than around the individual option, and it is misleading. That is the reason this whole section exists. The option list is the truth; the title is not. We would rather tell you that than let you find out when the parcel lands.

Are all four lenses polarised on the polarized options?

No. In the supplier's photographs the printed POLARIZED mark appears only on the fitted smoke lens. The copper, yellow and clear spares have no such mark on them, and other sellers of the same X7 kit describe it the same way — one polarised grey lens, three plain tints.

What UV rating do they have?

None is stated to us and none is printed on the product. Some other sellers of the same frame put UV400 in their titles, but not one of them cites a test, a certificate or a standard, so we are not going to repeat the number. If a stated UV figure is the thing you need, buy from someone who can show you the certificate.

The photo for the no polarized option still shows POLARIZED on the lens. Which is right?

The option name is right. The supplier used one photograph for both kits and only changed the red caption and added a small test card, so the printed mark in that image tells you nothing about which kit you are buying. Go by the Lens Type option, not the picture.

Will they fit under a helmet?

That is what the strap is for. Pull the two temple arms off, clip the elastic strap on, and the frame sits flat against your face with nothing running past your ears. We have no head-size measurement from the supplier, so we cannot tell you the strap's adjustment range.

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