Longest wait for a job ever...

[Uncle Fester]

I sent the lab a lenses only in the patients frame order April 3. First 2 weeks spent getting the lens type and availability straightened out. Meanwhile they lost a part to the frame and didn't tell me until I called them looking for the order 3 weeks later. Patient now needs to come in to pick out a new frame that the lab will reimburse us for. Add another 5 days. It's a FT poly transition w/ AR and slab off. Lab has apparently jobbed it out after several redo's to someone else and they now expect to get the job back Monday so I'll have it Tuesday.

So is 9 weeks a record?

I'm doubting it so let's here your horror stories as the heatwave hits New England this weekend.

Oh- Thank God the patient is a doll who is going with the flow and waiting patiently!

[Fezz]

Oh no.....I got waits that were much longer!

[HarryChiling]

Oh no.....I got waits that were much longer!

Yeah ever been to an Irish bar when they pour you a guiness, they fill it half way and let it sit there for like 10 weeks, then fill it the rest of the way. :hammer::D:p

[mlm]

Ordered a pair of bifocal Corning lenses that took 4 months and still arrived wrong. :angry:

[kgcopley]

Harry, some things are worth the wait. The key is to order two at the same time, so there is always one on deck.

[Jedi]

3+ months for a pair of Maui Jims. This was about 5 years ago, prior to them having their own lab. Absolute nightmare.

[Fezz]

3+ months for a pair of Maui Jims. This was about 5 years ago, prior to them having their own lab. Absolute nightmare.

I got that beat!

[rbaker]

Working at my first job as a dispensing optician in the sixties found us moving from the old Medical Arts Building to a new office due to urban renewal. The interior walls of the dispensing area were constructed of pecky cyprus boards. The owner wanted to save the boards from the wrecking ball so we went in on a Sunday to pull them out for storage in his barn. We found a pair of cement bifocals mounted in a BalGrip mounting in the space between the studs.

The boss looked at them and went to the safe which contained all of the patient records going back to the turn of the century and after poking around in the ledgers and neutralizing the lenses exclaimed . . . Ahaaa.

He then went to the phone and called the owner of the glasses grandson and informed him that gram pa's glasses were ready. The order was placed in 1936 and the glasses delivered in 1969.

As best as could be reconstructed the original glasses were lost coincident to some new wall outlets being installed in 1936. A new pair was fabricated and dispensed and the originals just written off and forgotten. The owner did remember their loss as he was just a young whippersnapper breaking in under his dads tutelage at the time. The grandson was thrilled to have gramps glasses and immediately ordered his lenses mounted in the old/new frame. I hope he is still wearing the frame.

[stephanie]

Um try 4 months maybe more!!! LOL!! No you still doing good! Next time tell patients glasses be in about 6 months!! Sorry joking....but sometimes we sure do feel that way!

[Uncle Fester]

Thanks for the replies so far!

I'm off to melt at a golf weekend getaway with the boys at Saratoga NY this weekend.

Keep the stories coming though!

As an aside can we leave the specific lab names out of the responses?

I'm sure they all can relate to the threads horror stories.

Better still can the labs join the thread?

"I feel your pain".:shiner:

[Fezz]

I had a five month + job once. It was about a year 1/2 ago.

I am over a month on a job right now. They are waiting for the correct lens blanks. It seems that no one is making semi-finished, SV 1.67 in spherical front curve anymore.

I love free-form!

:cheers::shiner::cheers::D

[Crickett13]

I had a five month + job once. It was about a year 1/2 ago.

I am over a month on a job right now. They are waiting for the correct lens blanks. It seems that no one is making semi-finished, SV 1.67 in spherical front curve anymore.

I love free-form!

:cheers::shiner::cheers::D

Don't blame me for that. Shamir Free form can only use sphereical blanks.
:cheers:

[Crickett13]

BTW just to clear this up the job is not from us and Fezz and I are talking about where he can get those elusive blanks :D

[DocInChina]

They are waiting for the correct lens blanks. It seems that no one is making semi-finished, SV 1.67 in spherical front curve anymore.

No one may not have them but we certainly have them, mister.

[Fezz]

Ah......My dear DocInChina! Your insight is much appreciated.

I thought that such beasts existed, but I am getting a much different story! Maybe I should forward your information to the lab in question. I can't imagine how they are surviving without being able to provide such lenses. Maybe they have never heard of you? I hope someone from this lab cruises Optiboard and sees this thread!!!

:cheers::cheers::cheers:

[Fezz]

Don't blame me for that. Shamir Free form can only use sphereical blanks.
:cheers:

Interesting Crickett.

So, can I assume that spherical 1.67 SV blanks do exist and are available? Our Premier Optiboarder in China seems to assure me that such beasts do roam the optical world.

I wish I was bright, so I could figure this all out!

;):cheers::D:cheers:;)

[Crickett13]

Interesting Crickett.

So, can I assume that spherical 1.67 SV blanks do exist and are available? Our Premier Optiboarder in China seems to assure me that such beasts do roam the optical world.

I wish I was bright, so I could figure this all out!

;):cheers::D:cheers:;)

The elusive beast does exist, Not many of them but they are out there. X-Cel is where we get ours. I wonder if BC or back orders are the problem. I know sometimes messages get garbled between the lab and C.S. kind of like in grade school when you whisper something from person to person that starts out as Roses are red and ends up Pete Rose played for the Reds.

[Chris Ryser]

It's a FT poly transition w/ AR and slab off. Lab has apparently jobbed it out after several redo's to someone else and they now expect to get the job back Monday so I'll have it Tuesday.

So is 9 weeks a record?

Having had a lab for 18 years, in the late 60s and going on for 18 years there has never been any delivery delays more than 3-4 days on complicated job at the outmost.

If you guy's would work with a reputable company I am sure you would be served in a timely manner. If you are looking for and working with a cut price outfit, that is the service you will get.

Nobody mentioned in above threads what kind of lab is guilty of delaying a job for 9 weeks, or even 2 weeks and so forth. A little more details would clarify the matter.

[Uncle Fester]

Nobody mentioned in above threads what kind of lab is guilty of delaying a job for 9 weeks, or even 2 weeks and so forth. A little more details would clarify the matter.

I won't because I feel like I'd be throwing stones in a glass house.;)

[Chris Ryser]

I won't because I feel like I'd be throwing stones in a glass house.

Maybe the glass house is made with hardened shatterproof glass, in which case it could take the rocks.

:D

[DragonLensmanWV]

I had a job take 5 months. But I understand fully why - comp job, way, way out of range and done sort of an experiment that turned out sour.You know - sometimes crap just happens. But I will use that lab again for more normal jobs when I get them. We just don't do much free-form.

[Uncle Fester]

Maybe the glass house is made with hardened shatterproof glass, in which case it could take the rocks.

:D

Isn't that crown glass with boron added?

[Fezz]

Isn't that crown glass with boron added?

Heat treated or chemed?

[Uncle Fester]

Heat treated or chemed?

I think it's untreated. We have some in our kitchens. It's also known as Pyrex-but I could be wrong.

[Chris Ryser]

Heat treated or chemed?

Heat treated of course............

and for rent to an optical lab company that has the motto "we are always slow"

:cheers:
:hammer: