Ultimate Glasses Repair Guide How to fix your broken glasses?
9 Min Read | 12 Aug 2021
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Have you ever found yourself in a frustrating situation where your glasses break at the most inconvenient time? Whether it’s a loose screw, a cracked lens, or a snapped frame, broken glasses can disrupt your day and put a strain on your wallet.
You might be saving up for an expensive designer purse you saw some time ago but now you have to squeeze your wallet to buy glasses and forget about that purse. You can live without a luxurious bag, but not without your glasses.
Repair them? If possible, you would turn to DIY hacks. But the fix might make you feel conscious of your frames.
What if you are dexterous with your hands? You can mend almost anything. Maybe you can try your hands on your broken glasses.
The first thing you have to consider is the state of your glasses. How broke are they? Is anything salvageable?
If you are lucky, you can get away with a few scratches on the lenses. Your glasses can be sturdy, durable, and live up to their name of being shatterproof like how you were assured when buying. You might have titanium glasses, light but sturdy. Your lenses are the only thing that needs a bit of mending. In that case, you can remove the scratches by following some of these hacks.
You can use home essentials like toothpaste, cleaner wax, or metal polish to try to get rid of scratches. However, there is a possibility that coatings on the lenses might get removed during the process.
If the scratches do not go even after using the above hacks, your lenses are beyond repair. You can, however, send your glasses to us. We reglaze glasses and provide you with high-quality lenses. Don’t worry, it’s not expensive. The starting price is only £33.99 for clear fully loaded lenses including premium coatings like anti-glare, anti-UV, anti-scratch, and impact-resistant coatings.
What if your glasses didn’t break but have just loosened up? There can be multiple parts of glasses that could have become loose like temples, nose pads, or the arms of the glasses. You can check this blog to learn how to tighten your glasses at home. You can check this blog to learn how to tighten your glasses at home.
Maybe the temples are widened up. When you wear your glasses, you need to put the second arm in place. You need to adjust the frames all the time. You cannot bend down as it will make the glasses fall. You do not have to replace your glasses for this minor issue.
Get a small screwdriver and tighten the screws on the hinge of the arm. Screw them up until they fit your face. Not too tight or too loose. You can get this screwdriver online with an eyewear repair kit. If you are buying from us, a screwdriver is always in your glasses pouch, along with other cleaning and maintenance items for the specs.
If your glasses are giving you headaches because they are too tight on your face, you can tinker with the nose pads and adjust them according to your needs.
If the nose pads are leaving a mark on your nose when you remove your glasses, it means that they are too tight and need adjustment. You can avoid such a situation by trying the frames before you buy to ensure a proper fit. Our free try-at-home service is a great way to try four of your favourite frames for seven days at your home. It is a completely free service with no obligation.
In the case of metal frames, you can unscrew the nose pads and replace them with comfortable ones. It’s a task for someone with a lot of patience. If you have a near vision issue, it is advisable to delegate this task to others, as attempting it may strain your eyes and cause a headache due to the small and minute details involved.
If the arms of your glasses are too high, they will feel loose on your face. On the other hand, if they feel too tight on you, you will need to slightly raise your arms.
For this, expose your glasses frames to hot steam or hot water from a faucet. You can even use your hairdryer. Doing this will make it malleable. You can, then, bend the glasses how you need.
However, be careful with the lenses. If your glasses have reflective coatings or other such layers, you will not want them to get damaged by hot water or steam. You can cover the lenses with wax paper and go with making the frames malleable.
Mending a clean break is difficult and requires a lot of patience. A lot of it!
The first method you can try is this. This method requires you to be adept with your hands. If you love doing DIY activities or working with miniature art, you can certainly try your hands on this method. Materials Needed - Your broken glasses, thick paper (magazine paper or craft paper), and super glue.
The next method is to sew back the broken bridge. Again, this method is difficult and needs a lot of patience.
Materials Needed - Drill bit with the smallest size (as thin as needles), sandpaper, wax paper, needles, thread, and super glue.
This last method can keep your glasses functioning a bit longer than other fixes. Also, it doesn’t affect much to your aesthetics.
Materials Needed - Steam, two needles or pin, sandpaper, wax paper
It’s tough. Admit it. If you don’t have this much patience, then leave the work to the experts. The only reason for you to seek these hacks is the sky-high price of the glasses. If you can get the glasses for affordable prices, you can stack them in your home, one for every occasion.
Well, you can certainly do that. We, at Specscart, understand how glasses are crucial to your life. Every pair of glasses are in an affordable price range. You can even get ten frames for the price of one designer glasses frame.
The choice is yours. Would you rather fix your frames or simply order a new pair? And if you are bothered about waiting time, there’s Specscart Rocket for you. We can deliver glasses as fast as the next day.
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