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Anyone know of a site that sells Smith I/OX replacement lenses?

6K views 11 replies 7 participants last post by  sheepstealer 
#1 ·
I've recently bought a Smith I/OX goggles from Amazon. Sweet looking thing, feels great too.

Only one problem. Black frame was suppose to come with the Ignitor lens and the Blue sensor mirror lens. What I got instead are Ignitor Lens and and RC36 Lens.

What the heck am I suppose to do with a pair of lens that are almost similar in VLT? So long story short. I need to buy a replacement sensor mirror lens, be it gold, blue or red so that I can use my Smith I/OX in dim light.

Google not helping me here. Using keyword of Smith I/OX replacement lenses get me sites selling goggles and not the lens. Smith Optics itself is out of stock. Pro-lens block me from entering since my IP is showing me to be from Singapore.

Nuts, outta options here. Any help guys?
 
#7 ·
I've been using my io's for 2 years now and i only ever use the mirrored lens. We get some nasty overcast days and in our group the lens range from the basic amber oakleys to some dark black electrics and every single person complains that they can't see.
 
#8 · (Edited)
We get some nasty overcast days and in our group the lens range from the basic amber oakleys to some dark black electrics and every single person complains that they can't see.
duh...use blue sensor mirrors

OP, many brands did a more limited production run, reduced material availability and shipping issues have coincided to have very limited availablity at this time in the season. This year, the smart person would have placed an order or bought in Aug/Sept. My main shop said they were only able to get their pre order inventory, doubt they could get more and some item were just sold out at the distributor level. My daughter is still waiting for some stuff she ordered in Aug/Sept and they noted that they are not shipping til mid dec. Her smith proform even took awhile to arrive.
 
#9 ·
I understand what you mean, wrathfuldeity. Everything seems to be limited in stock. I hope your daughter's stuff arrive soon.

Anyway, I got lucky at Smith optics website. They restocked on red sensor mirrors, platinum lens and ignitor lens. I'm going to order a red sensor from them.
 
#11 ·
interesting Smith are replacing the usual sensor mirror with the RC36....and they don't have any in stock. They were getting a lot of complaints (including from me) that the sensor mirrors were fogging between the lenses, so they're (finally) probably (hopefully) changing things around with those.

for me, the RC36 are barely doable in overcast conditions and really pretty bad in overcast+shadowed (like end of the day when in the glades) - jack of all trades/master of none type deal.

I/OX lenses are too big and do not fit in regular I/O frames
 
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