What do you guys use to get the stubborn yellow markings off your progressives when simple elns cleaner just won't do the job. Essiclean is the only thing I can find but I don't want to give Essilor any of my money they have enough already.
What do you guys use to get the stubborn yellow markings off your progressives when simple elns cleaner just won't do the job. Essiclean is the only thing I can find but I don't want to give Essilor any of my money they have enough already.
http://optochemicals.com/clean.htm
http://www.1-800-optisource.com/Marking-Ink-Removers.aspx
Isopropanol (sp?) alcohol also usually works, as well as denatured alcohol (which smells HORRIBLE). Acetone is a bad idea in general. Oddly enough, we've also found that non-acetone nail polish remover usually works well.
There are rules. Knowing those are easy. There are exceptions to the rules. Knowing those are easy. Knowing when to use them is slightly less easy. There are exceptions to the exceptions. Knowing those is a little more tricky, and know when to use those is even more so. Our industry is FULL of all of the above.
We use 91% alcohol.
If you don't want to use a optical commercial cleaner: Squirt alcohol on the lens and wait about 15 seconds, then wipe off with paper towel also soaked in alcohol. 40 years ago you could have just used the breath of any optician or lab man, but for the most part we behave nicer now.
Chip
This is what I use. OBer Chris Ryser got me on it. It is way faster than anything I have ever used. Plus, Chris hates Essilor, so you are hitting two birds with one stone.Originally Posted by WFruit
I use All Off from OptiSource. It comes in bottles, and you apply it with a Q-Tip, or it also comes in a pen style. You just uncap the end and get to scrubbing. The pen gives off less insulting fumes; although, the liquid kind is really not so bad. It works, so I guess that's what matters.
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
There are tons of different solvents that will work. What you really want is to get away from those fast evaporating ones like acetone, even if it does work wonders for many things.
Have you ever stuck your nose in a jar of mentioned nail pokish remover, to me it smellsw like a very large dose of acetone.
Well we're here in the UK will Chris ship over here? In the meantime i've got some "non accetone" nail polish remover and will give that a go. Thanks for all your help guys.
Well Chris Has Shipped over to the UK for the last 25 years.....................
Well Chris Has Shipped over to the UK for the last 25 years. We have one remaining distributor which is Inland UK. You can find the product on their website at http://www.inland.co.uk/category.cfm?cid=39#p1
Markaway is great! Just keep a glass jar with cotton balls soaked in it and use as needed. 500ml bottle has lasted over a year so far and I still have about half of it left.
A lack of planning on your part DOES NOT constitute an emergency on mine!
Well I got my accetone free nail polish remover today, stuck my nose in it and immeadiatley losy all my nasal hairs, that potent stuff. I shall not be putting that anywhere near a lens, so off to inland I go with my tail between my legs. I shall keep the nail polish remover for if I need to strip any paint off doors!!
If the lenses have an antireflection coating, use some 'cloudy' sticky tape (we call it Scotch tape) to take the lens markings off with almost no effort.
So much better than using solvents! And in most cases it's a lot faster too.
If using alcohol, be very careful. I have run into at least one frame that basically came apart because I got a little toooooo much alcohol on it. I've never had that problem with acetone, or acetone-like products, however. By the way, Happy Easter!
Using sticky tapes on lenses is a test for adhesion of coatings. If you use tape you might just damage the lens beyond repair.
also
using solvents that might damage the frame or the lens material while there are products available to do the trick all these ways are primitive and cheap ways to be smart.
isopropanol on a bounty paper towel (they wont scratch lenses)...then heat the lens with a frame warmer a little and it will come right off!
equal opportunity offender!!
Any solvent when heated..................and that is what you are doing by heating the lens will become manyfold stronger than in its natural state. You might also soften hardcoats, AR coats etc. and then damage them with increased power of solvent.
i can understand that, however I've been doing it that way for the last 7 years and have yet to have any issues. I think the key here is to "warm" the lens, too much heat would damage any lens.. so proceed with caution, once you get it right there shouldn't be any problems!
ohh and with AR i only use isoproponal or just alcohol (whatever is closer). typically what i have found is that markings come off AR far easier than lenses with no AR.
equal opportunity offender!!
use sellotape ,this is easiest...........
it also pulls away the hard coat and AR coatings ....................................
That is right...........it also pulls away the hard coat and AR coatings and you end up with a partially stripped lens.
Just saw a new add from the UK............................
is that so easy to pull away the hard coat and AR coating ,i wonder . mind to share.thx
it can be!!
equal opportunity offender!!
If hard coat is pulled away with sellotape that means it is bad hard coat and should be send back to lab to get new one.
Good hard coat can not be stripped with sellotape.
agreed. if the hardcoat n AR can be pull away , then it also can be wipe away
After all the use of a tape is one of the most important test's to find out if a coating is adhering to the surface. So do not use it to clean off markings, you should know better.
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