When my mother's frames broke, the first shop we went to said they didn't have frames to fit her lenses, but they could do both frames and lenses. When I said we go someplace else, it was amazing how fast they found a pair of frames that fit.
Marsha/Ohio
There are too many factors to be able to argue the point. For instance, if the lens is small, and it's a bifocal prescription, trimming it might remove too much of one of the focal "zones". It all depends....
Not sure where the OP is, but I'd hit one of the flea markets that cater to blacks. All of them have a row a Korean selling gold and most of them will do jewelry repairs on the cheap. Cheaper than investing in a torch and high strength solder (or learning to braze).
Jeff
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.
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.
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.>>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.
The only time I did it successfully was with an acetylene-air torch and silver solder it. It needs to be heated red hot, the borax flux melts. A touch of silver solder instantly melts and wicks into the heated metal frame.
The Dollar Store reading glasses have excellent eyeglass frames. Marginally better ones (as in looks) can be got at the pharmacists for $10 or less.
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
Me, too. But, I've got an odd prescription (very nearsighted, bad astigmatism, bifocals). A few years back, I tried to save some money. Pearl, LensCrafters and Wal-Mart completely phuqued up the prescription, but all said "We followed the numbers provided by the doctor". Well, not really. Back to the usual expensive optician, who did a perfect job, as usual.
Fortunately, this little experiment cost me nothing but wasted time.
JoeSpareBedroom:
I am sure you realize that did NOT actually answer the questions I posed. Mainly why I asked, when I do business with off-shore associates, I get a mastercard debit card, place an appropriate sum on the card and handle it that way ...
Could you expand on what I previously asked, it would be greatly appreciated?
Such as, you have a pair of these glasses which you find acceptable? I do take your previous text as an affirmative, but would like concrete confirmation--I know the money is small, which is at risk, still I don't like being "stiffed."
Regards, JS
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