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From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES)
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Subject: Re: Why do eyeglass frames cost so much? - Why not reuse?
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Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 14:27:54 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  7 14:27:54 1985
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>If you like the present old frames and
>  if the new frames are "identical" with the present frames and
>  if the present frames aren't bent or broken and
>  if you can do without your glasses for a few hours or days,
>why not have the optician mount your new lenses in your present old frames???

Yes, I liked them very much (I'm wearing them as I type now) and
  They are identical except for going on 12 years wear and
  I can't do without my glasses at all unless I sleep in a chair
  and the main reason was my age and myopia and whatever had combined so
  that I either needed bi-focals (Ugh!) or two pairs of glasses.
The idea, then,was that the old glasses would become reading glasses(they did)

BTW, I don't think that mine are "designer" glasses (same for 11 years+?)
or of exotic foreign manufacture. On the bows it says "UNIVERSAL 1/20 - 12K
GF  6"On the top nose crosspiece (there are two crosspieces which give a
rigidity and ruggedness - which is why they lasted and why I like them) it
says " UOC1/2012KGF  54022"

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