Cleaning specs

[Clot]

Minor variation: left pocket nose but otherwise the same process!

[S Viemeister]

Mine are frameless, so that's not a problem!

[jkn]

. I use an old toothbrush, kept separate from the others(*). An occasional clean with that, maybe in a warm weak saline solution, works fine.

J^n

(*) I always try to keep a few old toothbrushes around - useful for cleaning bike & car components, inside a PC, etc. etc. ...

[TMC]

Cocktail stick whilst the adverts are on the telly

Tony

[Lobster]

Yep. Mine come into the shower with me in the morning; when I've washed them they get a good shake and then are stashed on top of the rail over the shower door. Because they are warm, the water droplets have all dried off by the time I'm towelling myself, so no need to do any wiping (which invariably causes surface scratching long-term, even with anti-scratch coatings)

David

[Dave Liquorice]

Not soap, it smears. You want a detergent based cleaning agent.

I use the liquid "soap" used for hand washing. Little squirt on, rub with fingers good rinse with hotish water, shake. Dry hands, use kitchen roll to dry glasses. Perfect.

[Owain]

How common, they sell them in Aldidli.

Plasma cutter, does the business every time, bling, man.

Owain

[Andy Burns]

watch out for it "chipping" off any anti-reflective or anti-scratch coatings though ...

[Bob Eager]

Thanks for the warnig; didn't know it could do that. It's a pretty weak one mind.

Five pairs of glasses to clean...and that's just mine!

[dennis]

ultrasonics

[dennis]

They would have to be cr@p quality for that to happen.

[Andy Burns]

I did ask the optician before starting to use the U/S cleaner, he said it'd be fine so long as I just used e.g. washing up liquid, instead of any harch cleaner, the U/S cleaner certainly did get the gunk out of all the crevices, but the coatings started to flake at the edges after a two or three cleanings, I need to get them stripped and re-coated.

[Andy Burns]

I don't think so, small local optician, always happy to take time to "do things right", happy to put things right for free several years after having bought specs from them. These are frameless specs, so perhaps the edges of the A/R coatings get more abuse, the flaking-off started from the very edges of the lenses.

[Frank Erskine]

So _that's_ the new 'angle grinder' then?

[geoff]

In message , "george [dicegeorge]" writes

The best I have found is a green "rubberised" cleaning cloth - better than anything I've ever used before, and cam e from a dispensing opticians

Nothing else seems to be much more than useless on plastic lenses

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Rod saying something like:

Ditto, but I give them a pre-sluice in warm water before applying the detergent, in case of grit.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Ian saying something like:

Old doothbrush.

[Andy Burns]

Yes, as much as Bruce may try, a pressure washer isn't going to cut it.

[geoff]

"Small opticians" have nothing to do with the manufacture and coating of lenses, they just buy them in and sell them on to you at a vast profit

[geoff]

In message , Grimly Curmudgeon writes

... In the days when you had your own teeth, eh ?