hello again my fellow optiboarders,
so for starters i do not know all the techinical names of the part i am about to describe, but i will add a photo to illustrate. the "lens caliper" doohicky on our edger was damaged. this is the part of the edger that, once you start the job this caliper looking thing pops down and checks the lens thickness, and it also checks to make sure that the trace will fit onto the lens you have chucked. on this part there are 2 little black rubber "nipples" the one on the left is quite short in contrast to the one on the right side of the caliper like device. anyway the left "nipple" was damaged, and this part is now feeding incorrect data to the edger, as a result it will not safety bevel the lens, and the thickness that the edger thinks it is working with is incorrect. i contacted santi and they said that the edger we have is so old school that they dont make that replacement "nipple" anymore, and we have to upgrade the entire "caliper doohicky". this turned what should be a $2 repair into a $300 repair..... i have scoured my manuals, and other less reputable sources for the schematics of this part. if all else fails i will fabricate something on my own rather than spend that kind of money on a 25 cent piece of plastic.
ANYWAY lol, if anyone has a bucket o' parts for this old edger, or knows someone who does, or knows of a magical place where edgers go to die i could really use a new "nipple" (ok i got the word nipple in this post several times, its out of my system now) or if anyone is currently using the "out dated" style of lens caliper doohicky as we have on our LE-9000 and could possible make a mold or gather measurements for me to fabricate a new one, that would be most excellent!
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