I made 25 pairs of glasses today

**edKENdance** · 08-09-2007, 07:13 PM

For the exact same frame. Some charity readers we are making for a school. 25 pairs all in a row. My brain hurts!

**For-Life** · 08-09-2007, 07:15 PM

I hope it was an easy job.

**edKENdance** · 08-09-2007, 07:18 PM

All spheres. I think I fell asleep for a little bit.

How do you know Connie btw? She can't figure it out.

**For-Life** · 08-09-2007, 07:20 PM

Originally Posted by edKENdance

All spheres. I think I fell asleep for a little bit.

How do you know Connie btw? She can't figure it out.

It is the frame that is more of a problem sometimes than the lens.

She used to work at the Lab. Our store did business with her.

**edKENdance** · 08-09-2007, 07:22 PM

It was so assembly line. I loosened all the screws to make sure they were easy to insert. Leap padded all the blocks in advance. I was a machine!

**edKENdance** · 08-09-2007, 07:24 PM

It was so assembly line. I loosened all the screws to make sure they were easy to insert. Leap padded all the blocks in advance. I was a machine!

Is your real name Claude?

**For-Life** · 08-09-2007, 07:25 PM

when I used to edge I had a whole system set up.

- Put right lens in the machine
- Take out screws and drop in lock tite
- Put frame in tracer
- Clean up other job
- Take lens out of the machine, put left lens in
- Feather right lens
- Insert and clean up
- Take left lens in, and set up next job

**HarryChiling** · 08-09-2007, 09:03 PM

Originally Posted by For-Life

when I used to edge I had a whole system set up.

- Put right lens in the machine
- Take out screws and drop in lock tite
- Put frame in tracer
- Clean up other job
- Take lens out of the machine, put left lens in
- Feather right lens
- Insert and clean up
- Take left lens in, and set up next job

Oh my god you read my mind. Except I run to the generator when I hear the door open and change the lens over from the finer to the polisher when I hear it stop. Every now and again I see a patient at the door with their jaws drooping.

**RGC_man** · 08-12-2007, 06:19 AM

Those of us who made glasses in Britain in the eighties will remember over half our work being identical National Health frames. All the shapes were the same, just subtly different shades of blue, pink, black, or brown mottle. Sizes went up by 2mm, so you used one former and just turned the sizing dial up or down. Oh happy days.

**DragonLensmanWV** · 08-12-2007, 11:47 AM

The most I ever did in one day was 42. I had most of them already laid out from the prior day and was running two edgers, doing the tinting and UVing, and assembling them. All different frames, etc. That was a wearing day to say the least.:cheers:

**k12311997** · 08-12-2007, 07:35 PM

at LC most in one hour 25 with only two lab people and an optician snagged from retail for final inspection. most in one day 105 luckily a fully staffed day no less than four lab techs at any time and some overlap with five or six working at once. these were two different days the 105 day was fairly well spaced out we were pretty amazed when we saw the numbers.