I have a pair of glasses for the computer that I periodically re-solder. I couldn't get a successful join until I took an onld barss track connector from an HO railroad set, and made it into a sleeve, and soldered the ends into that. The same could be done with a half inch of small brass hobby tubing. Looks like crap, but you can't see me through my screen (yet).
Been there, Tried that. Lotsa luck finding new frames where the lens holes are the same shape and size. Now that Stylists design frames instead of Engineers, and they change them pretty much constantly, the chances of a plug-in replacement are slim at best. Unless you can find a local lab that is willing to whittle the old lenses to fit (which would probably cost more than new lenses), this is probably not a plausible solution.
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Richard J Kinch wrote in news:Xns9A2AEE9E496F6someconundrum@216.196.97.131:
This fellow uses silver solder to repair glasses. Not to be a shill for him, but we used him for DH's glasses, and he did a fine job.
J.
Marsha, That's a horrible story but probably very typical. I've always suspected that most glasses purchases are a rip-off. I can't see more than a few dollars worth of materials and labor in a pair of frames. Fortunately, I need only reading glasses and have never paid more than 3 pairs for $19.95! Other family members need prescription lenses and get screwed on price all the time.
Ivan Vegvary
What business are you in? How do you make a living?
The How it's Made series that runs on the Discovery Channel had an episode showing the manufacture of eyeglass frames, as well as an episode showing the lens manufacture. There is a bit more involved than you probably think, and on the lens side there is some very expensive specialized equipment involved.
I'm pretty happy with my contacts.
Many thanks for excellent replies. My plan is to try to get stainless solder and then try a jeweler. THere is a place on Queens Blvd which says "watch repair & shoe repair"
If I get sep read/walk glasses, Zenni is as low as $9. I got the eyeglasses which broke in 2003 for $30 and that "factory outlet" now costs $40. They must be cast iron because they hurt and I tried to bend them in church when they broke. I used to be good at bending. I really don't care if the temple looks different.
- = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist
.>>When my mother's frames broke, the first shop we went to said they didn't
I understand that it's not easy to fit frames on lenses, but just the fact that they said they didn't have frames to fit, without even looking, and then miraculously finding them AFTER we said we going elsewhere was a little suspicious to me.
Marsha/Ohio
Yep. Get them mailed here from offshore places like
You're a sucker to pay the hometown optician racket any more.
Huh. I never pay more than $1/each at the dollar store.
When the thin tubual metal temples broke on my [Zenni Optical] glasses, squeezed the ends into a short length of insulation from 12 gauge wire. Worked well for many months and didn't look too bad. Eventually Zenni sent a replacement.
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Looks interesting, but do they do a perfect job with wacky prescriptions, like bifocals with extreme astigmatism?
Geesh!
I was truly unaware such existed. Where are these people located? Have you done satisfactory business with them? The product is good?
As I type this, with my ~$600.00 glasses, I am beginning to wish I'd known about this sooner!
Regards, JS
One of the problems in getting a good fit is determining the optical center of your eyes. Just because a particular frame fits two people well, that doesn't mean their eyes are in the same positions relative to the frames. If all you need is simple dioptric correction, this might not matter, but if correction for astigmatism is required, you want the lens "centered" over the eye.
An optician puts a gadget over your eyes that lets them determine where the pupils fall. The lenses are then ground with their optical centers at those points.
For this reason, I would not have a Web or overseas company grind the lenses. Costco should be cheap enough.
My tip: Take them off before attempting to solder them.
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Really.
Off that site, a cheap pair of frames and lenses is ~$35.00USD (including shipping!) I can have multiple pairs and if I lose one, no big deal ... that site certainly looks good to me. As long as the area of corrected vision is large enough on the lenses--should work fine. Height of the pupil can be adjusted with adjustment of the nose pieces or padding.
I don't plan on wearing these glasses to see the king--just for work where something always happens to 'em!
Ever misplaced a pair of glasses, grabbed your backup and lost them? Everything stops until at least one set is recovered.
Regards, JS
Uncrewed the leftover part of the frame and it is the size of a nut. I thought there might be some stem left, but no. This seems undoable. I once repaired plastic frames by screwing an eye-screw into the frame with a similar fracture. I wonder if I can't solder an eye screw (looks like the letter P) in there. In the toirtoise shell plastic glasses, the eye screw repair looked darn near invisible.
Heck, it would almost be easier to twist the frame 90 degrees and put a hole in perpendicular to the flat side and run the screw through that.
- = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist
Eyeglass repair webs say they use gold solder.
I could almost make the temple from wire (run the screw through a loop). If only I knew where to find "antique bronze" wire that stiff and thick.
- = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist
Wait! That's it - I should find a matching frame with those cheap reading glasses and swap the temple!
- = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist
You need the Rx to include pupilary distance. Zenni doesn't ask for temple size but since you are getting measured, might as well get those numbers too.
- = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist
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