Do old -style opticians cut lenses on premises [OT]

Jaxx ( snipped-for-privacy@nomail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Not sure what it's got to do with cars, but...

If you want somewhere that makes 'em onsite, that's FAR more likely to be a big chain one-hour place than a small indie. They'll send the order away.

Thought about these online retailers?

No

Lenses are made by specialists. Look under Optical Goods Manufacturers and Wholesalers in yell.com

-- Dave Baker

My optician certainly does (single shop, not a chain). Fascinating to watch and the glass dust is weird

The message from "Chris" contains these words:

Weird how?

In message , Jaxx writes

Here (NE Scotland) our optician sends the frames away for the lenses to be fitted.

Inhouse would be unusual, theres normally an optical manufacturing unit somwhere that the vast majority of opticians in your area will use- I worked in one for a while, they service chains and indies alike.

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frames - italian, lens - a dispensing wholesale optician who buys them in or as is own workshop but can be frank smith in an old draughty factory who does work on the side for people who dont want to pay to see an optician!

Its a bit of lottery...

Some do their own, on crap equipment that should have gone down with the ark. Some are well skilled and use decent gear. Some send to a lab who have crap equipment, and staff who couldn't give a s*it. Some send to a lab who have state of the art gear and discerning techs.

really fine but sort of clings together

I guess I also had memories of people being killed by being fed powdered glass in old detective books.

The message from "Chris" contains these words:

That's not my experience of glass dust. Sounds more like polymer dust to me.

I do.

It varies. I would guess that about 20% of independent optometrists (opticians) have their own glazing machines. The others will generally send away to local or national labs.

Graybags

in all the groups you posted to :-)

I usually have a chat to mine I'm in, he's a good bloke, pretty small shop, they send the lenses off to be cut, he says it really is a better job done out-of-house, thought they sometimes chamfer and polish the edges themselves.

I doubt it. My bird used to work in one of the big chains and they got theirs in, then ground them to the shape of the frames onsite.

The ark never went down.

You played him! You set him up gooood.