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    Ebay

    Look at what I just found on Ebay

    http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-SHURON-A...QQcmdZViewItem

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    The question would be... how many of us know what it was for and could actually use it? It was the FIRST "bench room" device I learned to use.
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    I learned with the AO version of it, a pair of cribbing pliers and a rimless edger. Would like to get a rimless edger like we had, made better lenses than these danged new things do.

    I wonder if I could still make a ringer ??
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    It used patterns, glass lenses only.

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    we used to have one

    threw it out when we moved

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    I love those things!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jacqui View Post
    I learned with the AO version of it, a pair of cribbing pliers and a rimless edger. Would like to get a rimless edger like we had, made better lenses than these danged new things do.

    I wonder if I could still make a ringer ??
    I wonder how many of today's opticians could crib a lens?
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    ok, there's 2 bids on it. Who among us is bidding on it? :D

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    Yeh JR, me to 1965 with bausch and Lomb, i believe just like you, and after that you could use the famous Shuron 173-A bowl edger, ah yes the good old days of glass lenses

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    Quote Originally Posted by FullCircle View Post
    ok, there's 2 bids on it. Who among us is bidding on it? :D
    I'm one of them...
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    That's gotta be the third one I've seen in the past few months I know what it is and am familiar with it's operation only by watching someone use one before. Never operated it myself. It's a dinosaur, hey Johns I hear it comes with a complimentary tube of Ben-Gay.

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    You should see the frames that are sold on Ebay!

    http://business.search.ebay.com/lot-...Z1QQsofocusZbs

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    Quote Originally Posted by LENNY View Post
    You should see the frames that are sold on Ebay!

    http://business.search.ebay.com/lot-...Z1QQsofocusZbs
    Lotsa frames, lotsa sunglasses, lenses, equipment, dispensery furniture, even toilet bowls.

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    I still have my cribbing pliers if you need them Johns.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hcjilson View Post
    I wonder how many of today's opticians could crib a lens?

    Probably not many.

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    Yea Harry, but it's been awhile.

    We didn't have an "edger" for glass when I first started. Pre-cut (cribbed), put them on a blue stone to smooth them out, then beveled by hand.
    We ended up with an old AO Ceramic edger for the little CR we were doing. You cocked it, edged X rotations, then it popped the lens up. Took about 8 minutes a lens.
    Then we got 2 Coburn fixed head edgers for glass (can't remember the model name/number), but you had to dial in the front curve. The cutting fluid was like that of a generator... so we called them the slimmers - when you opened the door to check bevel position, it slimed you with the fluid.

    Obviously none of this was patternless and you had to know how to set the sizes for all of the various frame sizes. If I remember right the set size wheel on that old glass cutter only had a set range of like 36 to 50 mm.

    Learned alot in those days.
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    Quote Originally Posted by obxeyeguy View Post
    I still have my cribbing pliers if you need them Johns.
    I've got quite a few pr. myself. I display them in our offices along with various pieces of equipment from days gone by. I've got quite a collection, and some people stop in that don't wear glasses just to look at all of it - they're refered by the historical society down the street!:o
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    I hate to admit it but I've thrown several of those away.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JRS View Post
    Yea Harry, but it's been awhile.


    Obviously none of this was patternless and you had to know how to set the sizes for all of the various frame sizes. If I remember right the set size wheel on that old glass cutter only had a set range of like 36 to 50 mm.

    Learned alot in those days.
    Same here on the edgers, right down to the Company that made them.( AO). Our first automatic edger was the Tri-matic, also from AO.WE thought we had died and gone to heaven!


    On the patterns: Wasn't 36 the standard? Plastic patterns came into use and they were larger.....but no problem, they conveniently put the "set" size on the pattern for us! I for one am glad I don't do that any more!
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    Quote Originally Posted by hcjilson View Post
    I wonder how many of today's opticians could crib a lens?
    I am still able to crib, just did one a few day ago. Learned lens cutting on the American Optical cutter, never used the Shuron one.

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    Like Jacquie and Harry J., I learned on the old AO version of the cutter and on an AO Trimatic edger. When my dad moved his office, I asked him to save the edger and cutter and they moved into my parent's basement. The cribbing pliers went with them. I never had a place to put the machines, so eventually he sold them.

    I agree, the Trimatic, with its ceramic stone, made a nicer looking job. But you did have to work a bit to true the groove in that stone to make a clean, sharp bevel.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jacqui View Post
    Lotsa frames, lotsa sunglasses, lenses, equipment, dispensery furniture, even toilet bowls.
    They have some nice ones!

    Toilet bowls and frames!

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    Quote Originally Posted by LENNY View Post
    Toilet bowls and frames!
    That shows exactly where this business is headed!

    :cheers::cheers::shiner::cheers::cheers::D

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    Quote Originally Posted by hcjilson View Post
    Same here on the edgers, right down to the Company that made them.( AO). Our first automatic edger was the Tri-matic, also from AO.WE thought we had died and gone to heaven!


    On the patterns: Wasn't 36 the standard? Plastic patterns came into use and they were larger.....but no problem, they conveniently put the "set" size on the pattern for us! I for one am glad I don't do that any more!
    I think it was 36.5. That always bothered me for some reason. A pattern says set -15 and for a 52 eye that somehow came out as 36.5 instead of 37. Never quite made sense to me, so I usually set my edgers to be onsize at 37. Of course that was before patternless and tracers.
    I do have one old Clubman pattern that is tiny and is a set - 0 pattern - if it's a 46 eye, set the edger to 46.
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