hey if you just broke your glasses or the slightly bent end need an adjustment
and you can't find your way to an optical this video it's gonna show you
how to fix broken glasses at home let's take a look hey what's up this is
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now before you try and adjust or fix your glasses on your own I must say it
is best for you to take your glasses into an optical where a trained
professional optician can adjust fix your glasses for you rather than you
taking the risk of potentially breaking your glasses and making them worse most
opticals do offer free adjustments or repairs or maybe for just a minor charge
now with that being said if you live far away from an optical or you're stuck at
home then this guide will help you through it now the first thing I like to
do is to adjust the temple arms back into place if you have a metal frame
like these it's usually done pretty easily just by applying pressure to the
metal temple of the frame and just bending it back to where it needs to be
but be careful not to push from the far end over here because that's gonna put
extra strain onto the hinge and that's usually where most people break their
frames instead try to apply pressure right near the hinge and do it slowly
that way you don't break or snap off the temple arm better yet instead of using
your hands grab a needlenose pliers then you can actually apply the pressure in
more specific pinpoint places a cool pro tip is to use a lens cloth and wrap it
around the needle nose pliers and then you can use that lens cloth and apply
that to the outside area of the frame that way you don't scratch or mess up
the outer coating of the frame itself but again with that needle nose pliers
you just apply pressure to the spot where you need it and you can make
really fine tune adjustments now this also works for adjusting the plastic
frames using the needlenose pliers the same exact way however plastic frames
need to be heated in order to adjust to them that's where a lot of people end up
breaking or snapping their frames in the clinic we have these neat air heaters
that'll heat up the frame so we can easily bend them but at home you could
also run your frame under hot running water or use this a hairdryer to
basically spot-weld where you need to adjust the frame but be careful not to
give too much heat to the frame otherwise you could melt part of the
frame also be careful not to give too much heat to the lenses as the heat
could warp any special coatings on the surface of the lenses when this happens
we call it crazing of the lenses but again after that acetate plastic has
been heated up you just apply pressure with your hands or with the needle nose
and it'll Bend back into shape but still only apply a little bit of pressure at a
time because it is possible they could still break now listen up because this
part is really important if you do end up breaking or snapping your frame do
not use super glue to fix it a little-known fact is that if you do use
super glue on your glasses and you have any warranty on your frame you will void
the warranty only use super glue as a very last resort when you know you're
gonna be buying new glasses it is way better to try to use tape to fix these
problems I'm using painters tape here however from our experience using
electrical tape seems to work the best if you learn new things and getting
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now sometimes one of the issues is that the hinge is very loose or perhaps one
of the frames fell out and you need to tighten the screws again now to do that
you will need a mature type of classes screwdriver they have lots of different
ones of these you can find them at the dollar store near kind of the glasses
section otherwise you can also buy them online I'll include some links in the
description below if you want to find a link to those special type of
screwdrivers but for the most part it's just a matter of lining up the screw
head and actually tightening that screw but it's important to be careful because
if you apply too much pressure and your hand is underneath the screwdriver you
could end up skipping off of the screw and stabbing yourself in the hand and
you don't want that now if your temple does break or fall off and you lose the
screw and you can't find it again I know they're really tiny they're really hard
to find sometimes but if you're in that situation you can use a toothpick and
jam that into the hinge and then break it off they'll at least jam up the hinge
so it'll hold its place otherwise you can use dental floss and thread that
through the hinge as well and then you can tie that off and that'll at least
get you by until you can get back into optical to get that screw replaced if
one of your lenses did pop out then with a plastic frame you simply push it back
from the backside and snap it back into place it may take a little bit of effort
and for a metal frame you may have to tighten a screw to get it into place now
if you have a semi-rimless frame these are the ones that don't have a frame
that goes all the way around it instead they have this little string of nylon
holding the lens if your lens did fall out and you need to get the lens back in
it can be a little tricky so this is how you do it
now in the optical we have these tough little plastic strips that we use to
loop around the nylon string to hold it in place and then drag it onto the lens
because on the end of the lens there is a little Ridge where this nylon slips
into place if you don't have something like this at home you just need to find
something thin and tough you could use fishing line for example or again you
could even use dental floss otherwise you try to line the edge of the lens
onto the frame and then you slide your little helper around the nylon and then
you drag the nylon over the edge until it snaps right back into place and then
you simply pull the plastic out from underneath the nylon now if your glasses
are just a little bent and out of shape here's a few tips that'll help you get
through the whole adjustment process the first thing you want to do is put your
frames on and kind of feel how they're sitting are they feeling a little too
tight behind the ears a little bit more on the left a little bit more on the
right or are they falling down your nose and they need some sort of adjustment
there if your glasses just seem a little out of place then just bending that
temple arms a little bit in opposite directions should level things out if
there's somebody who's just completely lost you could also try the tabletop
test that's where you put your frame on the table and you can touch the edge of
the frame and see that they are not in balance then again it's just a matter of
bending them back into place so that they rest evenly on the table however
keep in mind that when you put them on that way they are unlikely going to sit
correctly because nobody's ears are perfectly symmetrical one ear is usually
a little bit higher than the other that is very normal so when you get to this
position it's pretty normal to expect you may have to make some micro
adjustments to do that check in the mirror or have a friend kind of
confirmed with you where they're sitting and that they're sitting level if you're
finding that your frames are constantly sliding down your nose then you may need
to a just the temple frames right around the
ears but again if you have a plastic frame heat that up otherwise if the
metal frame you can just bend with your thumbs right around the earpiece there
and Bend that down so it loops behind your ear that way both sides will act
like hooks so when you look down ulis hold on to your ear instead of sliding
down your nose now if you're getting a lot of pressure or headaches behind your
ears or the frames are still sliding down your nose it could be that the
backside temple here has been pushed inward too much and are rubbing on the
back part of your skull here but you can do that in this again push on the
temples and splay them out just a little bit but again you don't want to go too
far now if you have a frame that has nose pads then you may need to adjust
those as well for a proper fit again you can use your fingers but it is often
best to use some type of a pliers if possible oftentimes if the frame is
sitting too low that means your nose pads are too spaced out and you need to
turn them more inward same thing if they're sitting almost too high or if
they're pushing on your nose really hard then you may need to bend them just the
opposite out reduce a little bit if your nose pad did fall off you can usually
push that back in or tighten the screw to hold it in place or if you did lose
it completely then you may need to use tape on there as well
just to get you by again till you can get into the optical to get it replaced
now another thing to keep in mind is how the bridge of the frame has been bent
that's the part right between the nose if that has been bent it could cause a
face form tilt or a face wrap around your face and that can induce unwanted
amounts of astigmatism correction and that can lead to headaches as well as
kind of a kind of motion sickness sort of feeling while wearing the glasses so
to fix this it's just a matter of bending the frame again in the opposite
direction so hey hopefully now your glasses are repaired and back to working
order so why health question of the day which part of this video did you find it
most helpful go ahead and comment section below also include any other
tips or recommendations that you would have about adjusting or repairing
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