I have this pair of eyeglasses that have been on my face for about ten years now. Got a couple others, but these fit right and feel comfortable. They have been through 4-5 sets of lens.
Anyhow, I guess I ran into oine too many doors and volleyballs. The stem that the nosepiece sets up on for adjustment is suddenly ready to fall off from metal fatigue. it is at the point where it touches the frame around the lens.
I am wondering if this is something I can solder or take to a jewler for repair…. Suggestions anyone?
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Try the HP command: "OCCULUS REPARO"!
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I'd try the jeweler if I was you seeing as you really LIKE this pair of frames best...
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DW has a set like that and walked into some 2x6's sticking out of the back of the truck and broke the joint off the earpiece. Took it to an eyeglass repair place here, and the guy had it done in 2 hours for $10. Can't even see the repair. An optometrist suggested the place.
I was wondering if the optical shop could do it or if they just specialized in selling new ones.
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The optician that we took the frames to couldn't repair the frames as they were no longer made. They gave us the card of the shop that did the repairs. I'm sure there are shops like that if you're in an area with a city of 200K people or so. The guy told me how he did it. He did a splice with solder, then plated it with gold to match. I'm sure a competant jewler could do it too.
The place that did DW's is:
EZ Frame Fixer, (512) 391-9900.
2308 E. Ceasar Chavez St., Ste A, Austin,TX 78702
Guy's name is Christino.
She needs to break her glasses more often, as "Juan in a Million" Mexican Food restaurant is a couple of doors down, and I can eat Carne and drink cervaza for two hours easy....
Most eyeglass shops should be able to fix it.
I've soldered my own eyeglass frames. Method: clean with fine steel wool, apply flux, hold together with large Jorgensen clamp and various props, use electrical solder. It worked. Solder was visible (a small glob), and the work was not jeweler-quality, but I was glad to have my glasses back on my nose.
I might resort to a DIY job, but since I have others, I'll try to get it done professionally
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Piffin, Most glasses are a gold plate over a base metal. Higher quality old frames from 40 years ago still were gold filled. Most likely you can repair them, but often the plating and coating burns off. Next pair you get splurge for Flexon frames. They last forever and are damn tough.http://www.etherhuffer.typepad.com
Long-standing question: what exactly is gold-filled?
When I first had my RayBans set up for me the optician took one look and told me I wasn't old enough to have bought them new. These were my father-in-law's WWII military issue. Extremely comfortable but I'm running out of replacement bows after numerous incidents.PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
I think gold filled is one of the original scams - it should be read as "gold, filled".
Means gold-plated.
Pot metal probably.
Forrest
Gold filled means a German silver base with gold plate. German silver is silver alloyed with nickel. Nickel is a problem metal due to allergic reactions. When the gold wore off folks got rashes. But gold filled is a higher standard that plated. Somtimes its called vermeil.http://www.etherhuffer.typepad.com
so if I DIY this, I want silver solder?
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That'll stick to gold if you clean and flux it carefully. Other than that I have no idea.PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
Over the years I've had to have frames repaired a few times and the last time was done for free while I waited. Most larger optomatrists around here have a lab person who has the equipment to fix the frames and it only takes them a few minutes.
Without the tiny oxy torch it seems there is much greater risk of discoloring the frames, having a pisspoor joint, and ending up with a repair that needs a repair.
Of course if you are handy with a torch it doesn't seem like rocket science.
Beer was created so carpenters wouldn't rule the world.
heh heh
PL Premium, here it comes.
Maybe a pass the hat for new glasses for Piffin?[email protected]
that's not the problem. They just don't make these anymore. I have two others thqt are close, but no cigar
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Nothing worse (hardly) than not being able to replace something like that 'cause they don't make 'em anymore.[email protected]
No, you want gold solder with the appropriate flux. Can be bought at a jewelry supply house or by mail from Martin Hanum. It will take an acetylene torch (such as a Presto-Lite) or an oxy-propane torch. The oxy-propane is preferred, as it will not put as much heat into the base metal frame. It will also take a very fine torch tip.George Patterson
Thanks, takes a better eye than mine to see the difference. Had to look up vermeil. Thicker gold plating. Mercury processed originally? OK...PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
LOL That makes more sense.
The optician said he wished he had a drawerful of these. Had no problem instantly identifying the age of the frames, before I handed them to him. Something's different, for those who can discern. PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
Gold-filled is a method in which a thin sheet of gold is bonded to a base metal using heat and pressure. In gold plating, a thin layer of gold is built up on a base metal using either electrical or chemical means. Gold-filled items have a much thicker layer of gold than plated items do.George Patterson
J&B Weld.
Big glob.
Forrest
If we're talking gobs, soem PL Premium will do the job!;Almost the right colour too
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Use a tiny little itty bitty arc welder for that.
< a tiny little itty bitty arc welder for that.>
LOL! Remember how in HS you'd peel the aluminum foil off a Wrigley Spearmint stick wrapper?
My welding teacher could TIG them together, no joke, with some super umpty-ump high frequency deal that got donated to our school, back when vocational was a GOOD word.
Forrest
now that's welding!
take them to a jewelery repair...
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Piffin,
I had the same problem. When I took it back to the place where I got them, they repaired it with gold and a high heat torch. The charge was $38, which this business applied to a "repair account". When I buy new glasses, the money is applied to the new prescription frames.... Can't beat that for good business .....
Repair has been over a year ago and still holding.
Bill
find a jewler who has a lazer welder. The thing can even weld titaninum.
I have repaired mine using a liquid flux from Sears and a Weller electric soldering gun.
I accidently sat on them, the hard part was straighening them and getting things to line up and stay in place.
Dab the liquid flux on with Q-tip, heat first without solder, this helps flux clean better, then more flux and solder them.
They held for over a year, I bought new this spring and quit using them.
The newer "wire" frames are made from a titanium alloy, and it takes a special flux to let the solder flow.
These are fairly beefy and not "wire" really. Nor are they "newer". I've probably had them for over ten years now. Thanks everyone for the suggestions and the knowledge background. I am going to be calling my optometry guy tomorrow to see what they can do or recommend for a repair place.
I think it's time to get an apt for eyeball exam anyways. Vision has remained pretty much the same (except for adding the bifocal thing) for ages, but he is trying to monitor my pressure having had a couple borderline high checks
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