Lense making

I was offered a job that I will have to learn. Has anyone made
prescription lenses before? Is is difficult to learn? I think I can do
it but what is the most difficult part of this. Any step by step links
I can look at before tomorrow? It's a night shift which I have never
done before but that won't be a problem. Thanks, James

 

HI james,

I am a Lab Manager so I make glasses...I have been doing this for 9
(almost 10) years. Feel free to email me your questions at


I hope I can be of assistance to you!!

~Angie

 

Hi Angie:

Is your lab full service (does it surface as well as finish) and do you
do all materials, including glass? Thanks

w.stacy, o.d.

 

W. Stacey,

Yes, my lab is a full service lab. I surface as well as finish. We do
not do glass though. We do all materials except for glass.

Angie

 

Do any of your customers use those frame scanning devices so the frame
doesn't have to be sent in? How well does it work on "unknown" frames?

w.stacy, o.d.

 

Never heard of that before.....so I guess that means we do not use
it....

 

I have a Gerber Triumph frame tracer. It sound a little bit of the same
concept.

~Angie

 

That's kind of my take on it. I mean I'd like not having to send in
frames, but then I also do not want to have to dink around trying to
insert a lens that's ever so slightly small or a teensy bit large.

w.stacy, o.d.

 

You know, with all the to-ing and fro-ing in this thread, I find it
astonishing that nobody - lay or professional - has spotted and/or
corrected the mis-spelling of the word "lens". Or is it that people can't
be bothered correcting inaccuracies any more? Makes for a GREAT
professional image ... NOT!

--
Regards,
Nicolaas.





.... Sometimes we need to laugh at ourselves so the people who are laughing
at us don't feel too embarrassed.

 

It's such a common -- and stupid -- mistake that there's no more point in
correcting it than there is pointing out the difference between "lose" and
"loose". Some people are incapable of learning and there's no point in
wasting time on them.

--
Cheers,
Bev
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Q. What's the difference between Batman and Bill Gates?
A. When Batman fought the Penguin, he won.
-- J. Levine

 

I just assumed it was an alternative spelling, maybe european.
Whatever, I don't lose (loose?) and sleep over mis-spellings or upper
case/lower case or punctuations on internet communictations. One of the
charms of the 'net is the looseness and informality of the chatter.

After all, who are we trying to impresse?

w.stacy, o.d.

 

It *is* an alternate spelling (though--as I've said repeatedly--I'm
not planning to use the 'lense' spelling myself).

See:

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=lense

. . . or:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=lense

Personally, I'd be quicker to point out Messr. Hawkins's misspelling
of "mis-spelling," but that's just me . . . .

It is said, "He who lives by the sword dies by the sword."

 

Incidentally, "lense" is a variant of "lens".

Personally, I don't correct spelling/grammar in such settings .. it's
rather rude (and quite annoying).

 

French, if anything. Without it it would be pronounced something like 'loNG",
which is clearly wrong even if it WASN'T a frog who said it.

Hey, *I* noticed

They list it as a 'variant'. I bet the OED (anybody got a subscription?) is a
bit less tolerant.

....refers to the M-W entry. At least they have the decency to NOT list 'axe'
as a variant of 'ask'.

"Every spelling lame shall itself contain at least one misspelling."

 

And with about the same educational value as mud-wrestling with a pig.

--
Cheers,
Bev
============================================
"People are too stupid to realize they are."
--JoHn DoH KeLm

 

Quite right, Bev, given some of the comments I have seen. I shall now go
and have a shower ... and then stick my finger in the light socket.

 

I challenge your assertion, vigorously. [put simply: bollix! ]

Provide, if you please, an authoritative cite supporting your contention
that the insertion of a hyphen in a word amounts to incorrect (i.e., mis-)
spelling, in either correct English or the American dialect.

--
Regards,
Nicolaas.

.... Wrinkled is for prunes! It was NOT one of the things I wanted to be
when I grew up!

 

Now, now. We need all the intelligencia whe can get here.

Anyway, getting back to the topic, I've been thinking about those
computerized frame tracers that supposedly can electronically give a lab
the *exact* dimensions of a frame for edging purposes, which would
obviously speed up ophthalmic lens ordering.

The only way I can conceive of this working perfectly would be if the
scan of the frame were in 3-D so that eyewire curvature could be a part
of the formula. Does anyone know if there are such scanners reasonably
available, or are they just 2-D approximations?

w.stacy, o.d.

 

Actually, upon further reflection, the original poster () appears
to be a troll.