Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hound.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!edsel!bentley!hoxna!houxm!hound!rfg From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Why do eyeglass frames cost so much? - Why not reuse? Message-ID: <890@hound.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 14:27:54 EST Article-I.D.: hound.890 Posted: Thu Feb 7 14:27:54 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 08:29:40 EST References: <1223@drusd.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 23 [] >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" -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg