Cutting Lenses - What Works

[The Game]

Didn't see this listed on the chart, big taco into Romeo 2?

 

[dr.chop]

No. it is narrower by like 6mm.

 

[qtrain23]

No. it is narrower by like 6mm.

does anything work?

 

[lithiumus]

Just made a trip out to the oakley store with Romeo lenses. Didn't have time to check much but they had Big Taco Polarized replacement lenses in stock and it's a perfect doner. It's probably got 1-2 mm extra width on each side and there is lots of room to avoid the Polarized etching which would allow you to rotate the lens a bit to get the polarization right... but looking at the polarization of the lenses, better be sure that you have an exact match to the horizontal line of the doner polar lens to the old lens. If you take a pair of properly OEM mounted polar lenses, you will see that if you look at an LCD/LED computer screen and rotate them clockwise, they get dimmer but if you rotate the counter clockwise they get lighter... so that means the proper rotation / angle is somewhere in between... I wouldn't know how to make sure it was 100% perfect so beware if you are going to attempt to cut them yourself!

 

[dr.chop]

does anything work?

Shield lens, but hasn't got the rake (other plane of curvature) like the original spherical lens, so will make them damn close to the eyelashes (most touch the lenses from what I have seen). I would think that some women's lenses may possibly work, or potentially a fast jacket, but I haven't got a R2 to measure against. I will have to find the pic that was sent to me of the R2 lens on a metric ruler to see what the width was and compare.

 

[qtrain23]

Just made a trip out to the oakley store with Romeo lenses. Didn't have time to check much but they had Big Taco Polarized replacement lenses in stock and it's a perfect doner. It's probably got 1-2 mm extra width on each side and there is lots of room to avoid the Polarized etching which would allow you to rotate the lens a bit to get the polarization right... but looking at the polarization of the lenses, better be sure that you have an exact match to the horizontal line of the doner polar lens to the old lens. If you take a pair of properly OEM mounted polar lenses, you will see that if you look at an LCD/LED computer screen and rotate them clockwise, they get dimmer but if you rotate the counter clockwise they get lighter... so that means the proper rotation / angle is somewhere in between... I wouldn't know how to make sure it was 100% perfect so beware if you are going to attempt to cut them yourself!

Good work

 

[qtrain23]

Shield lens, but hasn't got the rake (other plane of curvature) like the original spherical lens, so will make them damn close to the eyelashes (most touch the lenses from what I have seen). I would think that some women's lenses may possibly work, or potentially a fast jacket, but I haven't got a R2 to measure against. I will have to find the pic that was sent to me of the R2 lens on a metric ruler to see what the width was and compare.

That's the only thing that makes me hesitant on buying r2

 

[Malv1]

That's the only thing that makes me hesitant on buying r2

I am still waiting for a pair of gold iridiums to pop up for sale for my r2's... Don't want to buy Linegear but it is starting to look like the only alternative...

 

[The Game]

Shield lens, but hasn't got the rake (other plane of curvature) like the original spherical lens, so will make them damn close to the eyelashes (most touch the lenses from what I have seen). I would think that some women's lenses may possibly work, or potentially a fast jacket, but I haven't got a R2 to measure against. I will have to find the pic that was sent to me of the R2 lens on a metric ruler to see what the width was and compare.

I have an r2 that you could work on, I was thinking about sending you a batwolf lens for you to cut

 

[salj838]

I have an r2 that you could work on, I was thinking about sending you a batwolf lens for you to cut

Batwolf differ in curvature with R2. Fast jacket wont, tried measuring the R2 lens again FJ and FJ XLJ both wont fit.