I should add that Santa Monica Plastics is currently a shoestring operation in an open garage in an industrial park on Colorado Ave. in Santa Monica. The boss sits in an overcoat behind a slab desk with the overhead door open. Their main business is the construction of vitrines, those clear plastic enclosures for art works, so you stand in line in the mud with artists, gallery employes, and people with leaking tropical fish tanks. Parking is nonexistant, so you move your car twice while waiting. A great place!
These guys, I think, are trying to keep their former shop going--it was displaced by new light-rail line copnstruction. They don't seem set up for Internet business at the moment (I told them about Select Plastics' biz model and pricing and the number of boats in southern California, but no light bulb went off). Anyway, any local plastics shop can cut and drill hatch acrylic. But my guys wouldn't even discuss removing the old lenses from the frames....