The lens change feature is pure bs - Wiley X Changeable Series Saber Advanced Safety Glasses

I bought this and needed to change the lens. I watched the video Wiley put on YouTube. But the process, although somewhat correct, does NOT work like in the video. The frame pieces you have to remove the change the lens (there's no single frame - that would make too much sense) are VERY difficult to pull off of the lens. The frame pieces are situated at the outer ends of the lens and are held on by a friction fit of the tab on the lens protruding into the slot on the bottom of the frame piece. This fit is VERY tight. To get it off, the hole in the frame piece had to elongate slightly to allow the tiny hooks on the ends of the tab to come out. The video shows a woman using her FINGERTIPS to pull the frame pieces off. That is absolute BULLSHIT. I could not pull the frame pieces off of mine no matter how hard I pulled. There is NO place to grab the lens below the frame piece except for the flat, slippery lens itself. So, I grabbed the entire lens in my hand. This puts a LOT of torque on the lens tab as you try to pull. A lot of hat force becomes torque, not tensile force. I finally gave up on pulling it off after over and hour of trying. I used the blade of my knife (Cold Steel SR1) and popped it right off. As I was struggling to get the frame pieces on the clear lens (it also takes a ridiculous amount of force to force them on the lens tabs), my wife noticed that there was a crack at the inner end of the tab. I had put so much torsional force on the tab that it cracked it. And this is ballistic polycarbonate. So, I was putting a LOT of force into pulling it off. The glasses in that video are obviously not straight off the production line. They've been worked on to make disassembly possible for that woman in the video. There is NO way she would be able to disassemble a pair straight off the production line unless mine are just a product of extremely poor QA. But reading the comments on the Wiley YouTube video that isn't the case. Everyone there says that it's much harder than it is in the video. And that video is one of the reasons I BOUGHT these POS glasses in the first place, the ease of changing lenses. You can only lie to me once, Wiley. I will NEVER buy anything else from Wiley. I don't care who recommends it.

I injured my wrist while trying to test if repeated removal and reattachment would make the frame pieces easier to work with. It didn't after 12 iterations whereupon, I felt something in my wrist pop as I was trying to squeeze the frame piece onto the lens tab. I had to use a big pair of Channellock pliers to push the frame piece back on. I was just as hard the 12th time as it was the first time.

I'm also not happy that trying to disassemble the lens from the frame that I cracked the lens at the inner end of the tab. It's IMPOSSIBLE to apply enough force to remove the frame piece by just holding the lens under the frame piece. Your hand will just slide right off. I had to hold the entire lens in my fist which, since it's offset and curved that causes torque on the plastic. And that caused it to crack. VERY poor design. And nonexistent QA. No one is pulling random pieces and trying to disassemble them. I suspect that they may have been fine at first. But molds wear. And with enough wear on the mold for the frame piece that hole just shrinks and can make getting that piece off take a great deal of force, far more than designed or intended. That means the problem is with the design and with their QA because obviously no one is bothering to pull random glasses and testing them.

And, no Wiley, I don't want a replacement. You've lost me as a customer permanently. I will not do business with a company that lies to me about their product with obviously prepared props instead of product off the actual production line. My wife could absolutely NOT reproduce what she saw in that video (and she broke two nails trying).

Back to Oakley for me even though I hate Luxotica and their price gouging trading on brand names they bought but the companies don't really exist anymore. Caveat emptor.