Bending spectacles

To help observe metamerism? :-)

I have always simply kept squidging mine around without any heating until they are comfortable enough and positioned well enough for me to stop trying to improve them.

Well RDS is our resident optician but he only posts here infrequently. Want me to email him for you?

In message , PeterC writes

AFAIK They use some kind of hot air thing in our local specsavers to bend the arms on plastic specs. I'd have tought a hot air gun on the side arm would work ok.

Or pop into another opticians and let them have a go>? I've been into random opticians before to have small repairs etc. done and they have always been helpful and never charged me.

Will the joint bend? Bit risky as the fine metal parts can break if you mess too much but you should get away with a couple of degrees.

The lenses will be OK in the heat as long as they are not coated but you are correct that ideally they should be in the same plane vertically.

Plastic sides usually have a metal 'rod' down the middle, worth trying bending one of them downwards about an inch from where it meets the ear, might take a good yank but they will bend, should stay put and virtually impossible to bust.

I post infrequently but have a read most days.

This is hard plastic and a wide, flat section - sqidging won't 'ack it.

I mean to get a hot-air gun next time there's one at Aldidl.

Knowing my luck...

Yes - it's finding a decent one that doesn't charge silly money. 2-for-1 + acouple of extras (bifocal on one and anti-reflective on t'other) set me back 130 squids as it was.

Please, Adam. Going back to Tesco is a last resort.

:-)

Other reply to this post noted.

No need. RDS has posted twice on this thread.

Glasses Direct [1] has this information/videos:

(I recently got 2-for-£25 on an offer but they weren't bifocal.)

Owain

I've just started doing the supply* for this venture, run by a guy who lives just down the road from me.

I'll obviously benefit from any sales he makes so this is a shameless plug, have a look over his site and if you have any feedback i'll pass it on.

Quite a lot of the text feels "cramped" either overflowing the box it's supposed to be within, or being overdrawn by other text within the same box.

Firefox 33.0.3 on Windows7

I'd say that ther is just too much text in too small a size and possibly grey rather than black so low contrast making it hard to read. The text may only appear grey as it's a small sans-serif font with very fine lines.

In places, View Basket area is bad and the four examples.

Mozilla 1.7.12 OS/2 Warp

Why not solve the problem and create a dapper new look for yourself with pince nez?

Terry.

Or a monocle. I use one!

D'ye have a butler, too?