Apparently some eyeglasses have a spring in the hinge on the arm pieces. So when you go to replace the screw, the holes will not line up. The fix is to pull the metal hinge piece away from the arm enough that you can place a paperclip as a spacer in between the extended metal piece and the arm so that the hole in the hinge will be extended enough to align with the mating piece of the hinge. I just learned that here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-97vN89AYzh4.html Thanks for the other tips and great video production quality, doc.
I went to the optometrist a week ago because the frame had gotten bent by my 3 year old. When I got there I was told that my warranty had just expired the prior week and that I'd hafta buy a new pair. I just ran across your video a few minutes ago, grabbed my pliers and went to work... fits like a glove. #Thankyou
Oke, so your frame is bent, you go back to the shop to ask them to bent it back. and they tell you it is out of warranty and you have to buy a new one. nice service. I hope your garage does not do the same when you need new brakes for your car. buy a new one.
If your glasses are not too expensive, then just buy new ones, I love to change my glasses and get new styles. Now I have reading glasses, regular prescription glasses and dark prescription glasses. I loooooove them.
So glad I found you... I've been using glasses for ages... and am so careless I always end up sitting or stepping on my glasses. And end up bending my glasses. Recently my niece stepped on it...😁 But thanks to you I have adjusted it myself. 😊
Dude , I love this channel. You're a godsend Dr. I have horrible vision and go through glasses so freaking much . You've helped me with styes, dry 👀, and much more.
I've worked in optical for about 6 years and I have a few critiques on this otherwise fantastic video... Be sure to pop the lenses in from the front of the frame, not the back. It's generally easier and safer on the lenses, especially those with an anti-reflective coating, since you flex the frame versus a somewhat inflexible lens. If you do use a miniature screw driver to make a repair, hold it with the base in your palm so you have better control and reduce your risk of slipping and causing damage. And if you do the tabletop test, you should flip your glasses upside down so the temple tips are pointing upwards. If the glasses rock while the temple tips are pointed up, then you will definitely know they are misaligned. The opposite position is misleading as Dr. Allen points out because of how our ears sit. Just take it easy on making adjustments because you can get caught up in trying to fix a lot of little misalignments and end up with a warped or broken frame. As with all of these tips, just be extra careful! If you still can make it into an optical, please do! There are still some of us out there during this time to help with optical emergencies! Great work Dr. Allen!
Oh my god thank you I broke my dads glasses and I went on RU-vid to see how to fix them, i came across you and I followed your instructions and with help from my mom we fixed them. Thanks bro for the help you deserved my like comment and sub ( I’m 11 btw) bye tnx
Bruh this guy is life saver. I feel asleep with my glasses on and I woke with the arm broken and my mom got from work in an hour. I was scared to tell her so I looked up videos and found this and I found out I don't need to get new glasses :D
Thank you so much Dr Allen. This video is filled with answers to every question (as well as things I didn't know, like the rimless glasses fix) I've ever had about at home eyeglasses repair. 👍
I'm so happy and grateful that I found this video! I got a pair of new glasses from my eye doctor a few months ago and unfortunately while getting ready for work one day they fell on the floor and while rushing around my place trying to get all of my things together, I made the heart stopping mistake of stepping on them. I'm supposed to wear glasses all the time, but I tend to take them off when I'm at home just because the prescription is so strong - The dental floss trick for the broken arm worked great for my wire frames and I'm hoping they will hold for a week or two until I'm able to get in to an optical shop to have them repaired professionally. Thank you!
I have been adjusting my frames for years and have made most of the mistakes that you speak of in your video. Replacing lenses that fall out is the most difficult task, especially if the metal frame has been distorted to fit a replacement lens. I have never had an easy time of "snapping in" a lens in a plastic frame. It usually requires a bit of heat to make it happen. Thanks for the tips. You are wonderful.
I have three words for you...heat shrink tubing. If you have enough material on each side of a broken off arm and frame, slide a piece of heat shrink tubing over both sides, align the arm, then shrink the tubing with a heat source. It's a lot more flexible than electrical tape, and will last as long as you want it to.
When you need your glasses to fix your glasses but you’re in the middle of a pandemic and you need to adjust your glasses with your spare glasses which are also bent 😭😂. This video is great ! Now I know where to make the bends to avoid that pain behind my ear and the headaches from the glasses feeling off. I still need to go to the opticians to fix them a little more because I think I overdid a bit but they feel much better.
I accidentally dropped some bonding cement of one of the lenses of my glasses while doing some basic fix-it routines. But, it is amazing what sanding can do. I started with 1,500 grit sand paper, then on over to 3,000, and the finishing sanding was done via the use of cloth and tooth paste. At first the glass was so rough that you could not see through it at all, but once finished, it was back to being crystal clear and shinny, and visually perfectly in focus. Anyhow, I was amazed at how glass can be polished so easily.
I suggest to add a metal part embedded in two components glue to make it much stronger, in fact many times stronger than a new pair, I documented the whole process and I am very happy to have my sunglasses back.
If your glasses are sliding off your face when you look down, try wrapping a rubberband around the ends of each arm. This gives the arms a little more traction in holding onto your ears. The rubber grips your hair and ears.
@@moisesibarra OMG the same thing happened to me! I was wearing headphone on top of my glasses and when I removed it and the left arm snapped in half :(
Thanks to this video I got my glasses fixed. I realized that my ears were not symmetrical and that always made my glasses to bend a little more towards the right. But I got em fixed. Thanks doctor eye health!
I’m little in the middle of class and my glasses just fall off because the screw wasn’t tight enough and I thought I was going to have to buy new glasses 😂😂😂
My husband once lost a screw on his expensive prescription glasses while we were camping so I sacrificed a pair of my cheap readers and gave him the screw from it. It worked great. Now, before I get rid of old glasses (even sunglasses), I take out the screws and keep them in a small baggy as emergency back ups.
"Don't use super glue unless it's your absolute last option, because it will void the warranty" me: *stairs blankly it glasses I just "fixed" with epoxy, hoping I got it right, because I just realized I think they're under warranty...* 😐 "Does epoxy count?"
The arm came off the hinge and i'm able to just slide it back onto the little post sticking up, but can't find a good video and didn't see it in here how to make it stick back on permanently. Hope someone replies to this.
Hey dude, dental floss didn’t work, but metal jewelry wire did. I tied it 3 times and used UV cureing glue to hold the threads together. My glasses won’t let me screw the screws in, they have this weird extending thing, that won’t let the screw get into the thread. I’m leaving for vacation tommarow so I hope it works!
The toothpick idea worked for me as a temporary fix! I just watched this and was like..huh, looked in my purse next to me, happened to have one and voila! Thanks for the tips!
Thank you for the video! My glasses frame broke and I used electrical tape to tape it and it works! Not sure how long it can stand but will see it these days. If only I could upload photo here as a proof.
I know this video is a year old but here’s a good question if it a different part of the glasses that break, say the bridge metal part. Somehow when I was cleaning my blue screen protective glasses the archway of the glasses, on my right side lens, just snapped. The lens fell out but it didn’t crack, break or chipped but the archway on the right side lens decided to break. Should there be a type of glasses that doesn’t break cause it metal bit looked like brass or some type of metal.
Hello, came across your video. Lots of nice quick info in your video. I'm an optometrist who has to do more glasses adjustments than I prefer. The only place where I might disagree with you slightly is on how to lay the glasses on the table to see if they are level with respect the wearer's ear height. I have told my opticians to always lay the frame upside down instead of top side up. Here's why I say this: If a person's ears are the same height, but one is further back on their head than the other, then the bend in the ear piece will be further back on one side. In this case the when the glasses are positioned top up on a table, there will be a gap between the end of one temple and the table on one side. If you put the same glasses upside down on the table (and assuming their ears are the same height), then the temples will both touch the table (at about the position of the bend) without gaps. So for adjusting glasses if one ear is higher than the other, I believe the upside down technique is more accurate. If any opticians see my post, please feel free to comment.
Hey, thanks for a great video! I have a question about what to do when no matter what kind of glasses I wear, I always get pressure and pain on the bridge of my nose, as if the glasses were tight. I really tried all your tips here but I still cannot wear my glasses every single day for the entire day. I always get nose pain sooner or later. Am i doomed or is there something I can do to the bright of the glasses? Thanks!
Ivan I saw an answer to your question, get a plastic frame ( or a frame without nose pads ) with the frames sitting on the nose, there should not be a gap at the bridge of the nose. The plastic should rest around the nose. The 2nd number is the nose size, usually 14mm - 19mm. My Tom Ford sun glasses are sized 55 ( a square symbol ) 17 145. For me 17mm fits my nose good, but the 145mm is to long to hook my ear, I need maybe 125mm.
I rarely like something on internet, moreover commenting.But... Thank you! This was exetremely helpful in a situation of a rush. Thank you, once again!
Thank you for telling me about not using super glue. Been trying to replace the broken arm of my glasses with an old pair that I have. Keep trying to unscrew the arm from the old pair and no matter how much unscrew it just doesn't seem seem to be enough for the it to let the screw come out. So why having so much trouble is there a tiny nut holding the screw?
having extreme dry eyes diagnosed by putting like litmus papers on my eyes but never offering any treatment except Soothe eye drops by my ophthalmologist, I so much appreciate you talking about eye goggles. I ordered some and wow. The pain is almost non existent now. 25 + years of torture finally taken away. AHhh. Thank you for these videos. I appreciate what you are so kindly doing for the average person like me. Have a lovely day. You certainly made mine :)
Thank you 🙏! I’m extremely hard on my glasses and break them all. Considering I am legally blind in one eye; you would think I’d be careful! I’m subscribed just so thrilled to find your channel!
Thank you for the subtitle in all of your videos, English is not my first language so it's so cool to have subtitles to read. Your videos are really useful!
Hi Dr. Allen, excellent video. As I was cleaning my glasses, my nose pad arm broke off at the beach and the arm was never found. I bought my glasses from Costco and the frames are discontinued. Although I have them for 18 months now, I really don’t want to discard these glasses since they are comfortable, prescription is good and they look good on me. Any recommendations?
thank you so much. i have to go somewhere tomorrow and THANK GOODNESS i saw this video bc my glasses arm fell off, but thankfully i saw this video and tightened the screw driver 😅. thank u so much !!!
What about stripped screws? I enjoy buying glasses online, but have terrible luck when screws loosen. I go to tighten them and strip them instead of fixing the situation.
Kids⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️If you break your glasses,tell your mom or dad,they most likely paid extra for a breakage plan!! My daughter was afraid to tell me too,but i paid extra for that reason! Dont be scared,fr!
Thank u even tho it’s been a year because I barely got this glasses and the hands broke and I was so scare my parents were gonna get mad at me I’m so blessed
Omggg...thank you so much for this. Actually, my little cousin broke it and i was not able to fix it. But after seeing this video, my glasses are now fixed but temporary but it is very helpful. Once again thanks a lot.
Thank you soo much for this very well explained and great video Doctor, My frame was giving me problems but after your tips it is much better now and it fits pretty well now, Thanks once again! 😊
wow thank you doctor!! I watched first few minutes of the video, got a motivation and slightly pushed the handle inwards, and it clicked into place!! I was very worried and thinking about going to the optician but ur video gave me the motivation that maybe I can fix it at home myself so thank you for that! ☺❤
Fanastic!you HELPED ME Lost the tiny screen and thought of going to RU-vid tonight d a solution and your the first video I saw and look nomore the toothpick worked Great !!!! Thank you Thank you!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I LEARNED A LOT & SOME FANTASTIC TIPS! APPARENTLY I’VE BEEN REPAIRING MY GLASSES INCORRECTLY FOR YEARS!! THIS IS AN INVALUABLE CHANNEL FOR ANYONE WITH EYEBALLS!!!! WE ALL KNOW PARENTS, FRIENDS, ETC WHO WEAR GLASSES OR CONTACTS! CANT WAIT TO WATCH MANY OF THE OTHER MORE VIDEOS IN YOUR LIBRARY!!
That is a super good question. I have not tried using hand sanitizer so I am not sure. I imagine it would not be a problem but I always fear there would be some chemical reaction to any coatings on the lenses.
I have a weird issue where nothing is broken or appears that way but what connects the hints to the arm of the glasses has separated from the hinge it appears to have been put together by some sort or glue or some sort of adhesive to attach it to the hinge I can slide the little metal piece in and out of it and have even tried super gluing it into the piece but no luck 😕
This is great! Thank you! I have a bunch of cheap-ish sunglasses that have one or more of the issues you described in this video. Now I know how to fix them! Thanks so much!!
