Prescription inserts, Mares X-Vision

[Scuds]

Before I found this site, I bought a Mares X-Vision mask, with some prescription inserts, installed by the dive shop. Once I had the chance to use them, my left lens leaked fairly profusely, even in just a few feet of water. After I investigated, I found that the left lens was cut a good 1/8th - 1/4 of an inch smaller than it should have been. Needless to say, the mask is back at the dive shop now, hopefully being fixed up with a new lens. Is this a common problem that others have had, or am I just that lucky one?

-Scuds

[ScubaToys Larry]

We've installed lot's of lenses.... Hundreds and hundreds, and have never seen that... We always leak test them before they leave - and the only thing I've seen is if in assembly, you don't get the skirt just right - they can leak - but a small lens?? Never seen that!

[Scuds]

Wonderful... I dug up the pictures that I took and sent in a response to those other guys.

[CompuDude]

Crazy. I wonder if they accidentally used a lens from a mid-skirt mask? Although I thought the frame was the same size for each, so who knows.

ScubaToys installed the lenses in my X-Vision Mid, and it's been fine!

(just to rub it in. )

[Scuds]

Originally Posted by CompuDude

ScubaToys installed the lenses in my X-Vision Mid, and it's been fine!

(just to rub it in. )

That's what I was wondering, or if it had something to do with the Liquidskin, since one package specifically mentions it, and the other doesn't seem to.

Oh, and there is no need to rub it in! Even after just test fitting the X-Vision, my mask now feels like a brick strapped to my face, not nearly as comfortable.