Lord love a stereo microscope. Keeps one from accidently carving one's own nose tip. For what tasks do you chose appropriate power[s]?
I find the visor magnifiers tedious, but better than the total hunchback posistion. Of course, I'm not doing work of the finess or exactitude which you are, so even 5X with good depth of field gets me by.
As always, enjoy the technical contributions. I can see by Mr T's brace and technique, that Purdey's thot an apprentice buggered screw/pin head was only slightly less of a sin than eating that famous apple from the serpent's tree.