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Cadorman

Cadorman

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Been 4 months now. Broke my regular frames right after Turkey Day.

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I finally popped the lenses out the other night and I found a NOS frame for cheap on Ebay this morning.

Anybody know if I have to do anything special to put my prescription lenses in the new frame? I don't want to break them.
 
Cadorman said:
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Been 4 months now. Broke my regular frames right after Turkey Day.

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I finally popped the lenses out the other night and I found a NOS frame for cheap on Ebay this morning.

Anybody know if I have to do anything special to put my prescription lenses in the new frame? I don't want to break them.
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Shrink the lens with liquid nitrogen.
Gently, Heat-gun the frames to expand the plastic.
I suggest you wear gloves.
 
I make glasses...

You are going to need to warm the frame to insert the lenses.
Not with a heat gun.
What we use falls in to an area just around a hair dryer.
Your new frame will probably have acrylic demo-lenses in it...they can usually be removed cold...pushing from back...out the front...fingers placed along the lower rim of the frame...thumb pushing the lower back side of the lens forward.
Heat only the frame...not the lenses. Especially if your lenses are anti reflective coated.
Keep the heat away from the hinge area(where the little metal piece is sunk in to the frame front) or you will loosen the hinges hold in the plastic...bad...because it becomes easy to pull the anchor out of the frame front.
If you can picture the the frame as a rectangle, you would want to focus on heating the top, and bottom, longer sides of the rectangle. One lens side at a time. The plastic in your (Ray Ban? Looks like one to me..can’t remember the model number) frame front will retain a little heat, for a minute or two, each time you expose it to heat. So, if you have trouble inserting a lens, it will take less heat time to get it malleable again for a retry.
When you get the frame frame warmed enough to bend a bit(do not over heat it so that it gets all floppy), from the front of the frame...insert the upper, temporal, corner....then the nasal...then the lower temporal corner...then gently work from the lower temporal corner to the nasal to finish.
If you feel like you need to reheat, to make a second attempt, pop the lens out, and move it away from the heat.
If/when you are successful...wrap the finished side in a cloth(like a clean microfiber cloth) to protect the lens while you heat the other side...and repeat the above steps.

If you are using a hair dryer for this...hold the glasses frame by the frame front, temporal edge, temples open, facing downward...if gravity starts to make the side you’re heating start to slowly fall away...remove the heat source, flip the frame to face you, and follow the above instructions.
If there is no hairdryer available...let me know what the options are.

If these instructions are not clear to you...please feel free to PM...I will make a video for you if necessary.
 
Cadorman said:
Yeah, they are Ray Ban 5206 2479. I was pretty easily able to work the lenses out of the old ones by pushing from the back. I will do the same with the demo lenses on the new ones. I will go the hair dryer route if I need to.
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Cold removal/insertion with today’s thin anti reflective coated lenses can cause crazing/striations in the coating(looks like a foggy spot that won’t come clean) if too much pressure is applied to a small spot...try not to make the lens bend/buckle under pressure while inserting.
 
One more thing @Cadorman ...do not throw away your old frame...just the temple with the failed spring hinge...the front, and other temple, are perfectly good spares in case of another “emergency”.
Just put the old frame in the little baggie that your new one should come packed in.
 
Thatbastarddon said:
I make glasses...

You are going to need to warm the frame to insert the lenses.
Not with a heat gun.
What we use falls in to an area just around a hair dryer.
Your new frame will probably have acrylic demo-lenses in it...they can usually be removed cold...pushing from back...out the front...fingers placed along the lower rim of the frame...thumb pushing the lower back side of the lens forward.
Heat only the frame...not the lenses. Especially if your lenses are anti reflective coated.
Keep the heat away from the hinge area(where the little metal piece is sunk in to the frame front) or you will loosen the hinges hold in the plastic...bad...because it becomes easy to pull the anchor out of the frame front.
If you can picture the the frame as a rectangle, you would want to focus on heating the top, and bottom, longer sides of the rectangle. One lens side at a time. The plastic in your (Ray Ban? Looks like one to me..can’t remember the model number) frame front will retain a little heat, for a minute or two, each time you expose it to heat. So, if you have trouble inserting a lens, it will take less heat time to get it malleable again for a retry.
When you get the frame frame warmed enough to bend a bit(do not over heat it so that it gets all floppy), from the front of the frame...insert the upper, temporal, corner....then the nasal...then the lower temporal corner...then gently work from the lower temporal corner to the nasal to finish.
If you feel like you need to reheat, to make a second attempt, pop the lens out, and move it away from the heat.
If/when you are successful...wrap the finished side in a cloth(like a clean microfiber cloth) to protect the lens while you heat the other side...and repeat the above steps.

If you are using a hair dryer for this...hold the glasses frame by the frame front, temporal edge, temples open, facing downward...if gravity starts to make the side you’re heating start to slowly fall away...remove the heat source, flip the frame to face you, and follow the above instructions.
If there is no hairdryer available...let me know what the options are.

If these instructions are not clear to you...please feel free to PM...I will make a video for you if necessary.
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"Not with a heat gun..."

You spoil everything.:rolf:
 
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