I was doing wires and paperclips and I spent close to an hour and still no repair, ran into your video, I was up and running in less than 5 minutes, thank you for uploading this great video.
Omggg i spent literally 2 hours trying to put the screw back in half blind lol😂 and all i had to do was pill the hinge, in less than 2 mins it was fixed sweat😅 thank you so much!!!! Saved my night!
I was trying to figure out why the heck the screw wasn't going in. I tried everything. 3hrs trying to repair and nothing. Came across you video and fixed it in 10mins. Thanks so much
Thank you very much for this tip! I owe a pair of Vuarnet's and I had this issue that I didn't knew how to address, because the spring was hidden inside and it was very hard accessible. Thanks to you, I fixed them and can now enjoy sunsets and day time walks and drives ones again! ☺
Bless you! I spent four hours trying to fix my glasses. I didn’t realize I had to pull the spring out! It took me another couple of hours, but I was finally able to get that ridiculously tiny screw back in. Thank you!
Stacy…. you dear are the bomb diggity. I had no idea how I was going to get those holes to align properly. You just saved the day.. all these years later.
I've been an optician for 28 years, and for the last 20 years, I've been perfecting this particular technique. Even though she said the glasses were fixed, I noticed the screw wasn't fully tightened-something only an experienced optician would catch. But you got the right idea . If anyone needs help or have any questions . reach out .
A really neat trick - saved me a lot of head scratching - thanks! If you bend the paper clip into a U shape so that it fits snugly over the temple it will stay in place while you put the screw in.
OMG! I've been spending so much time trying to put the screw in and after watching your video, I realized that the arm is a spring arm like the one shown in the video. I'm only 43 and my hand shakes. I think it's because I've been trying to do this so long that now the stress is making my hand shake more. It's good to see that even a professional struggles to get that tiny screw to go in. I'm going to try your technique, right now, and come back to let you know how I did.
Okay, so it took me a long time. I got my son to help me pull on the hinge and put a sewing needle in the slot (big and small paperclips were too big, so I used a thin needle to keep it open). We kept dropping the screw or were really close getting it to screw in, only to knock it over. We managed to fix one arm. After attempting to fix the second arm, my son asked if he could try it on his own. After a half hour, he was able fix something that took me hours to try to do on my own!
My glasses don’t have a thing for the paper clip to align onto. A couple of people I noticed in the comments have the same situation. But there was a gap created in the back of the little steel plate, when I pulled it with the aligator plier. It is in that gap that I managed to insert the end of a paper clip. I find out first that the holes didn't line up before your video. But the paper clip got me to experiment to finally got these holes to line up. Just that you need a second person to insert the tip of the clip, when your two hands are busy pulling that little springed steel. Thanks for your video, which got me to experiment with a paper clip with success!
omg, this video was genius, thank you - I have been struggling with fixing this for a couple days and refused to pay to get it repaired. This was a great tip!
Thank you so much, I have tried repeatedly to fix the eyeglasses growers, but I was only able to do that after I watched your video, thanks a lot again.
I was doing exactly what you was doing with the paperclip it wasn't working but then I clicked onto this video bada-bing bada-boom boom I'm brand new once again good job young lady
Thank you so much!!! Took us soo long to fix my glasses but I finally stumbled upon this video and we finally aligned the holes and got the screw in. Thanks again, very helpful video! 감사합니다!
Thanks! Mine's a bit different - flush side so can't put a clip like this, but sticking in a small wire perpendicular did the trick. Didn't realise there's a spring hidden in there but it makes all the sense.
I'm glad that you didn't edit it to make it look easy. She needs to be charging more for her craft, just wait until after she fixes my glasses until she raises her rates 😜
this is awesome.. I tried so many things trying to get the holes to align .. feel so dumb right now.. didn't know had to pull the spring.. 😂😂.. thanks for the video .. will try it later..
I had no idea it has a spring in that spot. I just saw it wouldn’t reach the other hole but didn’t know why. Now I was able to get the screw back in. I tried the paper clip but it kept falling out. So I used a flat blade precision screwdriver in the same slot and used the flat blade to push with to realign with the other hole. It’s much easier than trying to keep the paper clip in. Just be careful because a slip could scratch the lens.
An easier way would be to place the temple into the frame and take a push pin and insert through the screw hole, pry the spring apart enough to place another pin in between where, in the video, she is trying to place the paper clip (a pin or screw with a thickness of approx. 1.5mm), remove the pin from screw hole and insert screw. Although the type of spring hinge shown in video is very common, it's not the same for every pair.
The question is how did I manage to put a toothpick several times on the screw place (play basketball a lot) WITHOUT pulling this 2:18 😂😂😂 thank you for being able too see the ball coming
I usual find fixing screw in spring temple, used to be night mare, later l realized one can keep even small screw between hinges and use U-pin to open up the hinges, easier than using pliers to pull it
Instead of needle nose pliers use a pair of small tweezers, much easier to work with for reinstalling the temple screw. Or take some type of sticky putty and put a little on the screwdriver to hold the screw to the screwdriver while you insert it into the screw hole.
Man thank you I been literally for months trying to put my arm back on but it JUST WOULD NOT LINE UP IM SO BAFFLED THANK YOU VER MUCH!! cause it is ABOUT TO GO DOWN right now to put it on lol ima be able to see again yay give me a like for my excitement
This is really tricky. My glasses has really stiff springs and no catch to hold the eye in place, so I succeeded by threading a very thin screwdriver through from underneath and bend it into alignment before dropping the screw in from the top. And yes - at one time the screw snapped away from my tweezers, but I was lucky and found it.
Thanks to you we do not have to buy a new pair of glasses. Therefore, if you add up the total number of people who have seen this video and multiply it by $ 75 dollars that costs a pair of new glasses, thanks to you we have saved an average of $ 6, 775, 575 dollars. Thank you so much and God Bless you!