- Hello!
I would like to welcome you
to the Laramy-K Optician Works Training Center,
where, well, it's still kinda chilly out here in the studio.
- Ah, I'm so cold
(teeth chattering)
(icicles snapping)
that I can use my nose drippings as a pair of chopsticks.
- Today, we are going to talk about
what happens when you need to take an OC
or a progressive fitting height
with a frame that doesn't have any demo lenses
and how we can avoid this.
(imitating boink)
- Whoa!
(whomping music)
(rock music)
- Clancy, the customer,
has brought us a beautiful vintage frame
she bought on the internet
and she wants to put progressives in it.
Except there are no demo lenses in this.
So, what do we do?
Let me show you two possible techniques
that'll get you what you need for a fitting height.
One is just plant a piece of tape
(tape crinkling)
and clear tape doesn't seem all that popular anymore,
you could use packing tape, that's still usually clear.
But usually this opaque stuff works just fine as well.
I would put my tape sticky side out,
sticky side out, away from your customer.
That will not make them appreciate you very much.
So one possible technique is using tape.
(tape rasping)
(machete slamming)
(tape crinkling)
The other possible technique is using the wonderful,
reliable, old school Hilco Seg Gauge
and that is all we need.
I can then say, "Go ahead and put those on."
Her beautiful vintage frame lookin' right at me.
Doing all that stuff that we've been goin' over
on how to get a good progressive fitting height.
Lookin' right at me.
And I can dot.
Perfect.
And I can look.
Little straighter in there for you.
Good.
And I'm looking directly at her,
looking at her pupil center, reading the Seg gauge.
I've got 21, 22, 23.
Perfect.
That's all I need.
Thanks.
Record it.
Write it down.
Write her up.
Put in a beautiful set of lenses
and make a happy customer and a happy boss
when you make a great sale.
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What you don't want to do is try holding up a PD stick.
That is just plain a no go.
- What the hell are you thinkin'?
- There is no way to hold it in place
to a short and accurate reading.
You may also find some Gizmo PD sticks like this one
from IOT that has a vertical measuring function
which actually works quite well.
The other thing that happens fairly regularly is of course,
that your customer decides that they want sunglasses,
prescription sunglasses.
So they want a progressive lens and they put that on
and you go to take your progressive fitting height
and you can't even see their eye back there.
What do you do?
Well, the exact same techniques
that we just talked about for her beautiful vintage frame,
either use tape sticky side out or use your Seg gauge.
Thank you so much for watching.
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and make sure that whatever measurement you get
from that piece of tape or the Seg gauge
turns into a lens that comes from Laramy-K.
I'll see you again next week.
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