derwendolly said:
They wouldn't tell you because it was their measuring that was at fault!

In my opinion my whole frame seems to be set at an incorrect angle and this makes it impossible for the lens to have the power in the correct places, if you can get what I mean. The second optician I saw did try to adjust the angle but it hasn't worked and seeing as the frames are so thin and delicate I am not prepared to fiddle wif 'em.
My lens are the lighter, maximun thin ones too, otherwise they would be as thick as jam jar bottoms and just as heavy!
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I was wiv a different person when going back the furd time. Eye fink he corrected the measurements but also put the lens over a grid. Eye couldn't see it but looking online it shows the edge distortion wiv the greater amount if thinning. The thinning blured fings when looking right un left. Like yer car mirrors when driving. If yer held em 10 inches away and look to the horizon yer should see an angled picture. As yer bring em closer the angle will change. Do the same wiv old and noo lenses. Eye could see the difference wiv mine.
 
...that some limited workshop fun was enjoyed. :)
Mostly drilling a big 12mm hole down the centre of a steel rod.
I was cheeky as normally I step up in drill sizes gradually Centre-Drill...3-5-7-9-10-12mm but this time I went Centre-drill..5.5mm ..12mm in 2 passes.
I need the hole bigger but I don't have a 13.5mm bit (yet). :D
 
DanClarke said:
Feel for you.
Mine were bad, went OK, then bad again. Now pretty much done for, can't read without glasses.
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Sympathies mate.:(:(
Only slightly shortsighted but was enough to be annoying and couldn't drive so was very happy at about 18 to get contact lenses wore them for donkey's years, in fact "overwore" them as in the end my left eye couldn't take them any more. (The old fashioned "hard" sort. Sooooo easy to use!)
So had to wear specs until my ageing eyes decided I would need reading glasses but my distance vision improved, which in fact is great!
Until the cataracts started to build up.:(
Go £5k saved up to get them done when I need it. Might get them done in Frogland where it might be cheaper.;)
 
derwendolly said:
Mine is not part of getting old, except for the cataracts, I've had to wear glasses since the age of 10/11. My older sister brought home from school one of the childhood diseases - measles or mumps, I can't remember which, and after me contracting that - bingo! That was my eyesight affected, although my mother did not realise how bad it was until we got a TV in 1952 and I kept asking her what was happening on the 9" screen.
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That would have been measles, sadly, the doc ought to have looked out for it. W got measles and had measles of the eyes too. She was put in her parents' bedroom which had heavy curtains which they closed all the time, low wattage bulb put in the light and brown paper put around it and down from it so the light level was really low. couldn't leave the room, couldn't do any activity that needed her to use her eyes to any extent,. She was 6 so in 1953.
Another good reason for the MMR vaccine.
 
DanClarke said:
...that some limited workshop fun was enjoyed. :)
Mostly drilling a big 12mm hole down the centre of a steel rod.
I was cheeky as normally I step up in drill sizes gradually Centre-Drill...3-5-7-9-10-12mm but this time I went Centre-drill..5.5mm ..12mm in 2 passes.
I need the hole bigger but I don't have a 13.5mm bit (yet). :D
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You got a lathe though;).

J
 
Well W won all her lots, I didn't win the clock making tools, they went for £200 :eek::eek::eek:.
BUT we noticed that some of the watch lots didn't sell so I'll be going in with a cheeky bid and may pick some of them up. ;)
V cold today and having to pop outside all the time as using the tile cutter. The mitre cutting base is beggared, which is V annoying as I am more or less having to cut em by eye. Grrr:mad::mad::mad:.
Bin waiting for step dottir to show up, she said she'd be here end of morning, tis now 1444.:rolleyes:
Enjoy the rest of the day folks!
:):):)
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Sympathies mate.:(:(
Only slightly shortsighted but was enough to be annoying and couldn't drive so was very happy at about 18 to get contact lenses wore them for donkey's years, in fact "overwore" them as in the end my left eye couldn't take them any more. (The old fashioned "hard" sort. Sooooo easy to use!)
So had to wear specs until my ageing eyes decided I would need reading glasses but my distance vision improved, which in fact is great!
Until the cataracts started to build up.:(
Go £5k saved up to get them done when I need it. Might get them done in Frogland where it might be cheaper.;)
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Get the contacts put in when they take out the cats:).

J
 
Hippo said:
I was wiv a different person when going back the furd time. Eye fink he corrected the measurements but also put the lens over a grid. Eye couldn't see it but looking online it shows the edge distortion wiv the greater amount if thinning. The thinning blured fings when looking right un left. Like yer car mirrors when driving. If yer held em 10 inches away and look to the horizon yer should see an angled picture. As yer bring em closer the angle will change. Do the same wiv old and noo lenses. Eye could see the difference wiv mine.
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My problem is nothing to do with the actual lens or type - If I move the frame to angle the whole thing up or down then I can either see the distance well or the near well but not both - get the angle of the frame to the face right them everything works as it should. Getting someone with experience to get the frame accurately angled to the face seems to be problem.
If they do get the centres wrong then there is only one way to correct that and that is to re-measure and have another set of lens made - the person who made the error is then not popular with the boss as that reduces the profit margin!
The blurring that you talk of is all to do with the curvature of the correction, as you say, it is much like curved car mirrors. I can't draw on a computer so am unable to explaind how the 'channels' work but safe to say that the top lens makers who do these special thinned lens so you don't get that blurring effect, do charge a lot for each lens. It is for this reason that my optician only charges me for the new lens' and puts them into the 'old' frames, £200 each lens each year is more than enough to keep paying.:)
 
Stanleysteamer said:
That would have been measles, sadly, the doc ought to have looked out for it. W got measles and had measles of the eyes too. She was put in her parents' bedroom which had heavy curtains which they closed all the time, low wattage bulb put in the light and brown paper put around it and down from it so the light level was really low. couldn't leave the room, couldn't do any activity that needed her to use her eyes to any extent,. She was 6 so in 1953.
Another good reason for the MMR vaccine.
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Sadly, during WW2, I don't think a child with the after-effects of measles was one of their high priorities.:(
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Sympathies mate.:(:(
Only slightly shortsighted but was enough to be annoying and couldn't drive so was very happy at about 18 to get contact lenses wore them for donkey's years, in fact "overwore" them as in the end my left eye couldn't take them any more. (The old fashioned "hard" sort. Sooooo easy to use!)
So had to wear specs until my ageing eyes decided I would need reading glasses but my distance vision improved, which in fact is great!
Until the cataracts started to build up.:(
Go £5k saved up to get them done when I need it. Might get them done in Frogland where it might be cheaper.;)
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I was in consideration of having the cataracts done privately with my optician awaiting my final decision this month but after spending all this time, money and effort still trying to get value-for-money out of the ones I had to get quickly just before Christmas I am of the feeling that I will wait a bit longer.

I tried contact lens' in 1965 - the 'new' small micro- corneal ones which had just been released - but they just wouldn't stay in! After about an hour they just flicked out - first one followed closely by the other. You can imagine the fuss as I shouted to everyone to stand still and try to find the wandering lens'. These small ones were very new then and they could not work out why it kept happening - they tried trimming them smaller and smaller and that made no difference, then they replaced them and started agin - three sets later they decided that it was a fault with my eyes 'cos they didn't secrete enough tears, so it was back to glasses. I was very didappointed 'cos, being a PE specialist, I would have found them very useful, especially when teaching swimming in a heated pool and then going into the cool changing rooms to chivvy up those who wanted to be late for their next lesson.

Things have moved on now but after wearing glasses for so long I just do not want to change to lens again - people didn't know who I was!!

Just for interest, I was quoted a rough estimate of 3 to 3 and a half grand for each eye just before last Christmas.
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