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The machine is new which is why I am concerned. They say that a power surge could have messed up the mother board but they can't say for sure.

The settings have been fixed for the bevel and groove...

Hey,

A few things...

We got the Coburn Excelon CPE-4000 with their auto tracer unit at the end of December. We have had to have a repair don on the auto blocker in February and the mother...

Alright I am going to call the rep tonight and see what he says. We mostly sell semi rimless so I can't handle 11 min per lens.
here is a pic of the factory settings in the rotation menu:
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It is a brand new machine so it better not be anything like that!!

Hm ok thanks. I will look and see what I can find out when I go in tonight.

It is the Coburn CPE 4000 and poly.
The rep set it up to groove after it polishes bc the grooves were coming out really dirty. But now it grooves, polishes, grooves, bevels.

Well thank you Bill, that was incredibly impertinent to my question.
I actually enjoy being a lab tech. I have the flexibility of working after hours. :)

Ok so I started doing safety bevels by hand and that helped a lot! I timed my semi rimless and it took 11 min to cut 1 lens, that is cut, groove, polish and safety bevel. So that is where I am losing...

Ok I will try to do more finishing on my own. My boss wants all semi rimless and high minus rx polished and so that is sucking up a lot of time. I already do as much as I can while the edger is...

I will have to time it today! It takes several minutes to cut, groove, polish and bevel. (We sell a ton of semi rimless, I could polish by hand but haven't found a rouge I like for poly yet)...

Hmm manual are you polishing grooved lenses and using the ar safety feature?

How does the santinelli perform as far as quality of the lenses when they come out?

Fjpod, I have an auto tracer/ blocker that is fantastic! So I will have a bunch of jobs blocked up ready to go....

Thanks. I have been contemplating finishing everything by hand to speed it up a bit. Our briot killed so many expensive lenses! This machine does exactly what it is supposed to do and they come out...

Thanks guys I just upgraded from a briot. The briot was old, slow and was always making mistakes.
The new edger is slightly faster but not much but it does produce beautiful work!
I do not have a...

For those of you who are edging in an office setting, how many jobs per hour can you complete on your edger? My boss got me a gerber coburn that I love but I wish it was a bit faster. I just want to...

Fantastic!

Thank you Darryl! I love this forum, I find some incredible information!

All the above is why I wear CLs!! Ha! I am a minus 8 and I am picking out a frame for some new back ups. I like a semi rimless bc the frame annoys me and one of the girls says, "what about your rx?"...

Thank you everyone. That is what I thought.
I don't know what the original frame looks like but the new pair with poly looks terrible. But I polished it real pretty for the optician even though I...

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This pic doesn't really do it justice...they look nice, I just hope the polish doesn't blind the guy. ;)

Thank you for the help guys. The compound was old. I found I newer bar and it is working much better. :)

Ok another question. .(I like questions)
We have been debating the weights of lenses in our office this week.

So trivex is supposed to be the lightest but is not always the thinest.

One...

Ok good. I want to make sure I am not the crazy one. O.o

Thanks guys! I will see about getting some new rouge. I don't think anyone sells it locally but I will look into it.

So another question while I am at it...my opticians are going polish crazy...

Quick question. What wheels are you all using to hand polish lenses?
At my last job they had the buffer set up and it polished really well but I don't remember what the wheel looked like. At my new...

I am really confused. O.o