Hello,
Forgive me if this is basic knowledge, but I have been out of the business for 11 years and am just getting back in.
I know that years ago, we used to tell patients to put Transitions in the fridge for a few minutes to help them darken up sooner/faster/more...something!
In the few weeks I have been working in a lab, I have heard two experienced opticians/lab techs talk about this. One says it DOES work, the other says it DOES NOT work.
What're the facts?
Thanks,
Don
Originally Posted by donovanbaldwin
Does not work. It's a hold over from the days of glass photochromics.
wrong answer- self delete
This one works better!:hammer:
First Navy Chief,
The only thing you are doing is freezing your lenses. Please smack the person in the head that passed this old wives/urban legend tale on.I was wondering... I've been told that when a patient first takes their transitions home they should place them (frame and all) in the freezer over night. That this gives them a jumpstart, so to speak. Is this true? And could one do this after a few years to reactivate them??
Sorry, I get carried away when ever that question comes up. Someone started that as a joke about 15 years ago and it wont go away. It is right up there with putting winter air in your tires so they wont go flat in freezing temps.
Please read the thread on Transitions® and cooler temps. There is a basic photochromics 101 that can explain everything you need to know about organic photochromics used in plastic lenses.
and C-10
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I would like to do a flash mirror on trainsistion but can't find anyone in Canada to do this.
Is it possible?
Yes, flash mirrors are possible and fairly popular on Transitions®. Any lab doing AR on Transitions and also offer flash mirrors as products can flash and do mirror's on Transitions.
Optiboard has many members from Canada. If you post your request and location in the General Forum I am sure you will reap many good leads.
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Manager Technical Sales
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Mercy me. Thanks for the info.
Don
That's awesome, I'm so going to start telling people that.
Bart Smith, continuing to be awesome since 1982 so that you don't have to.
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Actually no one is telling the whole truth here. They probably will change better while they are still cold. They sure don't seem to work as well in the heat.
Chip
Chip,
all photochromic lenses do better in cool weather, it is photochromics 101.
no one has ever denied that.
It is the stupidity of putting eyewear in a fridge or freezer that was discussed here. For some reason, someone thought this activates or conditions the lens to respond better in heat...for the life of the lens.
All you create is a one time very dark activation, with more than likely also fogged up from the humidity.
If I am cranky, I am sorry, I get a pass from the chemo drugs I am taking.
Jim
Jim Schafer
Retired From PPG Industries/
Transitions Optical, Inc.
When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say even less.
Paul Brown
Jim:
I knowed that but I just wanted to see dem folks puttin dem glasses on straight from de freezer!
Chip
Hey Jim,
Feel free to crank away to your heart's content.
I spent 21 years in the military. If a man, or woman, cannot have the freedom to be cranky...and to gripe at will (whoever Will is), then part of it was wasted.
My coffee's got to be around here somewhere!
Don
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