When should you roll and polish lenses
Hi,
I was just curious as to when you should have lenses rolled and polished? Normally of course you would do this to CR-39 lenses, especially if someone with a high RX didn't want to go with the cost of high index lenses. But should you do it on all polycarbonate or trivex lenses as well? And do you need to do this on anti-reflective coated lenses too? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Re: When should you roll and polish lenses
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BAM829 said:
Hi,
I was just curious as to when you should have lenses rolled and polished? Normally of course you would do this to CR-39 lenses, especially if someone with a high RX didn't want to go with the cost of high index lenses. But should you do it on all polycarbonate or trivex lenses as well? And do you need to do this on anti-reflective coated lenses too? Any help is greatly appreciated.
I hardly ever consider giving a roll and polish UNLESS it is requested by the person or if the lens is getting an AR coat..and you should NEVER roll and polish an AR coated lens after it has been coated..that defeats the purpose, as well as shatters the adhesion over time..
Cosmetically it might look good, optically arrgg.. you just made a nice built in "prism" to scatter light and make nice little reflections to drive people crazy :)
R&P is strictly cosmetic, unless you happen to have to need to roll it down to get the temples to shut correctly (crazy myopia) I always have and always will strongly recommend an AR if you roll and polish or at least an edge tint to try to help with the lens "flare"
Than again this is just my opinion, I'm sure if we get 3 opticians in this thread we end up with 42 different answers.. we are an opinionated bunch aren't we :)
Jeff "maybe a lab rat but I DO I have my ABO&NCLE..really,I do" Trail
Re: Re: Re: poly challenge
[QUOTE]DrKLP said:
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Chris Ryser said:
Polycarbonate Edge Polish
Hi Chris,
I'm not familiar with this compound. Do you know the name and where it may be purchased? TIA.
Ken
Hi Ken,
You can get it from OMS Optochemicals at Tel 800-461-6637, you can look it up on the website at :
http://optochemicals.com