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custom clip on in-house
After years of tinkering and a lot of trial and error, I finally put together my first real in-house custom clip for a patient.
I developed a no-glue rimless in-house custom clip on that I put together using my Nidek ME 900 to make the slots.
Easy to assemble, disassemble, to change out lenses if necessary for either a scratch or redo.
Here are her +9.00 OU add 2.25 progressives (1.74 physio 6.5 base) and the clip on. I used 6 base PC (2.0 mm) sun lenses.
The client really wanted a clip and so she now owns my "genesis" clip and I hope she comes in tomorrow to pick them up.
20 minutes from start to finish, 14 of which are the edger edging, 6 minutes for prep and for mounting.
I hope to upload a video eventually showing how I put this together.
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Very nice work. Congrats on the custom job.
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Nice job.
I used to make those back in 2005.
They are not easy.
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do you make any custom clips today? which did you use in 2005?
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We did a lot of Made in the Shades custom clips in Albany about 20 years ago. Decent product. Very hard work, though.
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I have had some previous rimless custom clip on products in the past and I could not get them to work. I am not familiar with made in the shades though.
This new system has been tweaked so there is no manual skill required at all, no glue and no rivets - so that the machine does 99% of the work automatically and anyone can just mount the lenses in seconds.
Does require a machine like the Nidek 900 though.