If your lenses already have an anti-reflective coat, we can attempt to strip the old coating off and re-coat them. This is not always successful depending on the type of coating, how old the coating is and the lens type and material.
- We are usually unsuccessful stripping high index 1.60 and higher lenses.
- Signet Armorlite polycarbonate lenses and trivex lenses will always fail during strip. The chemical stripper clouds the frontside of these lenses almost immediately.
- Glass and poly lenses that have an extremely old AR coating are likely to be ruined during stripping also.
Some AR coatings have been dip hardcoated or have a thin foundation layer that acts like a hardcoat. The AR coating will usually come off the lens, leaving that thin layer clouded or crazed.
