Have any of you had this problem with your glasses?

[SteveF]

I have a pair where the coating is flaking off. They sit on the shelf and whenever I need to do something that will get chemical or paint spray, or something else bad for lenses I take off my good glasses and put those on.

Steve

[Highpower]

I used to have that problem all the time. Then I stopped paying to get the coating because they scratched anyway. Never a problem since.

A visit to the dentist turned me on to these:

http://www.amazon.com/See-Eyeglass-C...3981292&sr=8-3

After all the years of fighting flaking, smeared, fogged and oily plastic lenses, all it took was one root canal to find out the secret to spotless, CLEAN and clear eyeglasses.

[SGW]

Highpower, I think you may have the answer - don't get the coating! Even if the lenses do get a few scratches they will still be better than lenses with a bubbled and peeled coating.

Any ideas how to remove the coating without harming the lenses? Alcohol? acetone? Glass cleaner? scraper?

[Highpower]

Any ideas how to remove the coating without harming the lenses?

Sorry..... above my pay grade.

[adatesman]

Just FYI, no need for fancy wipes.... soap&water folliwed by a dry washcloth works just dandy and won't hurt the lenses or coatings. Been cleaning mine that way at least once a day for years.

[MichaelP]

This is a problem that haunted me for years. And no, I don't use acetone all day long, and I don't use Windex to clean my glasses. Mostly, water or lense cleaners.

Long ago I understood that the first thing that gets scratched and comes off was the anti-glare coating, so I started requesting uncoated lenses. My prescription lenses are quite costly (about $500 a pair), yet I have to replace them every 2-2.5 years due to the fact that some coating that is still present there bubbles up and comes off the surface.

One of the possible solution could be glass lenses instead of the plastic POS. I can order them from Canada, but they're three times more expensive in my case (high index glass).

So I still don't see how to resolve the issue with plastic prescription lenses. It would be interesting to discuss it with an experienced and honest professional and get his unbiased opinion. Meanwhile, I don't understand if the problem is due to a poor quality of lenses chosen by my Pearl Vision to make more profit or it's a genuine plastic lense problem. I strongly suspect this is the latter.

IMO, changing glasses every 2-3 years is a bit excessive, but those who sell me the glasses say that 2 years is what's expected and considered to be a norm.

[Andrew S. Quinn]

I got talked into the plastic lenses,and they lasted about a yr before they were scratched and I saw halo's around every light at night,which is very annoying trying to drive with all the glare.

I just got a new prescription and I told them I wanted glass lenses and not plastic coated. The woman there told me "They will weigh a lot more" and I told her I had been wearing glasses all of my life,and I'll take seeing clearly over a little extra weight!

[beckley23]

I use only dish soap to clean my plastic lens, and a cotton cloth to dry them. Paper towels will scratch them. Never had the problems above.
Harry

[J Tiers]

The answer is NOT to avoid the coating....

The answer is to get a GOOD coating.

I have plastic lenses. I got the best hard-coating I could buy. My last pair, that had it on, I got in 2005, and when I just got new glasses last month, the coating was still essentially PERFECT.

I have sprayed paint, wiped the glasses with the tail of my t-shirt if I had to, etc, etc, etc.

NO scratches, NO delamination... I needed new glasses just because the prescription was so old, and the frames (not available anymore) were falling to bits.

The previous coatings were trash..... but the one on those (both pairs) was great... and still is.

They were big semi-"aviator" lenses, too, now I had to buy tiny square ones because that is all anyone has. I HATE the tiny lenses with the 0.5 x 0.75 focus area at 18"..... it's STUPID.

But the coating is tough.

[chipmaker4130]

The answer is NOT to avoid the coating....

The answer is to get a GOOD coating.

I agree. I've had no problems, and I'm generally pretty hard on lenses. My Optitian says the new, better coatings are "infused" into the plastic and cannot peel or bubble. I do pay a premium for them though.