Optical Jargon

[rbaker]

"Trim the Flak" To trim and otherwise remove the excess material from a recently cut lense. Also, to polish the edge of a lense.

"lense"

[optilady1]

There should be a thread on hand signals that pt's give when they are talking about progressives, Transitions, polarized. It's actually quite funny that the hand motions for both progressives and transitions are the same, but when used within a certain context mean totally different things lol.

[Wes]

"...please chime in with your favorite optical jargon along with reasonable explanations/definitions"

[Gizzo]

Is this what you're looking

Ringer- Old school When a glass lens blank was scored to the pattern shape a crimping pliers could snap the excess all off in one piece. Hence a "ring" of glass is produced.

I still have a cribbing pliers...

[rbaker]

Me too, also a lens cutter and a Grollman. I recently gave an AO TriMatic edger to a friend who is using it in an unoptical manufacturing shop.

[CCGREEN]

Magic Drawer - Never used by me, I'm too embarrassed to insult someone's intelligence.

More like to chicken to call them on it sir. Maybe I should say call them on it respectfully.
It's time to get over the "politically correct" stuff. Call a spade a spade.

[CCGREEN]

Who in here has used a fineing pan" or polishing pan or cut their own laps made of metal. used a generator cooled with light weight oil and cut the glass lens fast enough the oil ignites.

[JRS]

Done all of that CCGREEN. Rocked in cylinders too, especially back in the day when many were put on the convex side.

Other terms: Elliptical Error, Cross Cylinders, Over-Refraction... could go on forever