What do you use for lens wipes??

[Medtrays]

So-I've worked at a few optical centers now- but looking to start something new. One of the things we use most is the dry wipes with spray to clean at dispense. Wipes we've used so far aren't too bad price wise- but they don't absorb the cleaner that well so when dispensing I see people pull 2, 3, sometimes even 4 just to clean a set of lenses! My question is this- does anyone have a dry wipe they use that they like?? Or a kind you'd say not to even try? (if you do have a favorite one any manufacturing/pricing info would be amazing!)
Thanks!

[Pogu]

Sparkle paper towels and Glass Plus are what I like.

[Robert_S]

We use the Zeiss lens wipes... They're just tissue with iso on, but they work well.

[pragusa]

We use a large lens cleaning cloth...I take them all home regularly and wash them. We do keep kim wipes in house but find they go quick and cost too much

[Robert Martellaro]

Kimwipes for drying.

Household cleaners are not recommend due to the negative interactions with chemical sensitive materials (cracking), and damage (with repeated use) to thin film coatings.

[MikeAurelius]

diluted dawn dish soap and old (clean!) cloth baby diaper material.

[Java99]

Kim wipes.

[9520g]

I used the crizal wipes essilor labs gives out, collected alot of them though the years.

[Pogu]

I used the crizal wipes essilor labs gives out, collected alot of them though the years.

Between our stock lenses w/ AR and Crizal we have about 50 brazillion of the little pocket towels. Patients always getting a stack of them when they ask for an extra.

[DazeyReign]

Cotton dish towels and a combo of alcohol, lens cleaner, and dawn dish soap (in the ultra-sonic). Preferences are different per optician on the solution; and we have our towel laundry done twice a month.

[Barry Santini]

Hilco or Nanofilm premoistened wipes. The best!

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[Robert Martellaro]

diluted dawn dish soap and old (clean!) cloth baby diaper material.

I have, both at home and at work, a couple dozen flat cotton baby diapers on hand, but I don't like the idea of sharing cloths between clients, most being older, especially during flu season. I try to remember to wash my hands between clients.

Detergent and water is ideal, but I'm just too lazy to go to the sink every time I smudge the lens while adjusting during dispense. So now I use 1oz Hilco squeeze bottles to spritz both surfaces and dry with Kimwipes, and compressed air for the occasional particulate matter.

[Slim]

I only will use the big blue box of Kim Wipes with 90% or higher alcohol.

I hate when I see all the people sharing the microfiber cloths.... gross.

[Java99]

I only will use the big blue box of Kim Wipes with 90% or higher alcohol.

I hate when I see all the people sharing the microfiber cloths.... gross.

It always amazes me when I see places do this. Spread the green nosepad goo around, please. And worse, when those cloths live in a scrub smock's front pocket all day, amid pd sticks, pens, gum, keys, paperclips, other dirty cloths, tissues. Gross.

[DazeyReign]

It always amazes me when I see places do this. Spread the green nosepad goo around, please.

You give patients their glasses back with green nosepad goo?!

[Java99]

You give patients their glasses back with green nosepad goo?!

No, silly. But when a person cleans green goo with a cloth, then sticks the cloth in their pocket to clean the next person's glasses, they're spreading it around.

[MikeAurelius]

You give patients their glasses back with green nosepad goo?!

It's THEIR nose goo, what am I supposed to with it???

[DazeyReign]

It's THEIR nose goo, what am I supposed to with it???

*giggle* Make casserole?

I guess I was under the impression that washing (goo removal) and replacing nose pads was universal in dispensaries!

[MikeAurelius]

You'd think...but judging from the jobs I get in from a couple of offices, most likely not. *gag*

[9520g]

I would not hand out my glasses to another person if they were full of face cheese, just saying.

[MikeAurelius]

I would not hand out my glasses to another person if they were full of face cheese, just saying.

mumblety years ago, we had a dispenser down in the bayou country who would routinely send us spectacles that were just plain filthy, to the point where you didn't want to touch them without rubber gloves. The line was finally crossed when a pair came in, enclosed in a zip lock bag, with green colored moisture inside. I took them out of the bag with a pair of pliers and dropped them in the ultrasonic for a couple of hours. Then scrubbed and another round of ultrasonic.

When the job went back out, I charged an additional $75 for cleaning the glasses and wrote a note to the effect that if we got another pair that was dirty, they'd get them back. Never heard from them again. They did pay the bill tho, so it wasn't all bad.

[mervinek]

I have had Hilco wipes melt a few frames. (coach, burberry) You have to be careful!

[Barry Santini]

I have had Hilco wipes melt a few frames. (coach, burberry) You have to be careful!

Really? I've had no similar experience on ANY frame with Hilco wipes.

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[Slim]

I have had Hilco wipes melt a few frames. (coach, burberry) You have to be careful!

Could it have been old dried up sweat that has soaked into the frame? I had one personally and a couple that came in in the past that when alcohol was used to clean off temples it dries to a white mess...

[Pogu]

You can buff that out.