Minor adjustments to wire glasses can be made without a repair kit, but structural repairs require one. Techniques such as using a paper clip or toothpick can temporarily fix broken parts. Eyeglass repair kits contain screws, screwdrivers, and a magnifying glass to fix common problems like broken hinges. Before attempting any repairs, check the warranty.
Wire glasses that slip off your nose, sit too close to your face, have loose arms, or are uneven can be fixed by bending the wire frame parts. More structural eyeglass repairs, such as tightening a loose hinge screw or replacing a missing screw, require an eyeglass repair kit for a proper fix. There are also several techniques for manipulating a broken zipper or broken temple involving a paper clip, toothpick, cotton ball, twig, wire hook, and super glue. Before carrying out any repairs on your glasses, you should review your warranty to make sure that the home repair will not void your warranty.
You can make minor adjustments for comfort to wire your glasses without a glasses repair kit. When the metal glasses slide over your nose, pinch the nose pad together to tighten it. Eyeglasses that sit too close to the face and fog up easily can be fixed by widening the nose pad. If your temples bend and the goggles move with head movement, bend your temples back together, squeezing the goggles onto your head. Uneven face glasses can be fixed by bending one of the temples up or down to adjust the horizontal alignment.
Eyeglass repair kits typically contain a few screws, screwdrivers, and a magnifying glass. One of the most common eyewear problems is a broken hinge due to a torn or lost screw. To fix a broken hinge, remove the old screw using the screwdriver from the kit. If your glasses have a spring hinge, select the spring hinge screw with a pointed end, but use the regular screw when the hinge is not spring loaded. Align the hinge with the rod, insert the screw into the holes and use the screwdriver to rotate it into place.
When an eyeglass repair kit is unavailable, a missing screw-in hinge can be temporarily repaired by aligning the hinge and shaft and then poking a toothpick, the center shaft of a cotton ball, or even a sturdy twig through the eyeglasses. holes to serve as a screw. Another method uses a length of fine wire threaded through the holes in the zipper and then wrapped several times to hold the temple in place. Superglue can be used to reattach the rod to the zipper or to fix a rod that has snapped in the middle. A wire hanger can be cut to size, shaped like a rod, and glued to the top of the hinge to replace a badly broken rod.
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