From: Michael Pederson <mike at nthzine.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Good Glasses Cheap
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:25:35 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Call me crazy but I think that cheap glasses are just an urban myth
propagated by the federal government and the media.

:-)

Michael D. Pederson
Publisher/Editor
Nth Degree

On Oct 28, 2004, at 6:56 PM, ronkean at juno.com wrote:

>
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:38:56 -0400 "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
> writes:
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Madeleine Yeh" <myeh at wap.org>
>>>    I bought glass lenses 5 or 6 years ago in Virginia.
>
>> Interesting.  That means that a number of optometrists have lied to
>> me over the years.
>>
>
> I'm convinced that glass lenses remain legal; I bought a single glass
> replacement lens earlier this year.  Perhaps what has been made illegal
> is not hardening glass lenses for eyeglasses.  Today the glass lenses
> are
> put through a surface hardening process, and individually subjected to
> a
> ball drop test.
>
> Ron Kean
>