How To Adjust Eyeglass Frames

can't really do it yourself. just take it to a vision place.

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2008-12-01 20:56:55 by 818181a

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i heard that if you heat them up, they should be adjusted easily. but how and for how long?

The easiest way to do it is to boil a pot of water, and dip the glasses into it. How long will depend on the thickness and rigidity of the plastic, but we're really talking about 10 seconds at a time.

Go very, very slowly. Whenever possible, have your whole hand wrapped around the part that's not bending, as opposed to just a couple of fingers. More surface contact will mean less stress on any one given point. Be prepared to dip and bend several times before you get the fit you want.

2009-08-13 15:44:23 by pinkgiraffe

What hot solution or substance should the frame be dipped into before being bent into an adjusted shape? If it's not readily available, where do I get it? What's the professional optician's way?

place in hot tap water, for about a minute.
Along the length of the ear frame only
then gently bend, be careful, too much will cause it to break,
Then place in cold running tap water for a minute, to set while holding the shape

But for best results go back to where you got your glasses.

DO NOT use any open flame or direct heat source

2006-07-18 06:18:41 by powerhouse

I had larger frame glasses from 6 to 19 (well I had contacts for a few years during that period), as I was farsighted. My vision corrected, but recently, I had problems reading street signs (though I could see them), so I made an appoinment with my eye doctor. I had to wait about two weeks to be seen, and in that time period between making the appointment and the actual appointment, I started having problems with blurred vision at all distances (though I can read alright without glasses) and had bad headaches.

He and I were surprised when he found out I became nearsighted since the last eight to ten years since I saw him. He said mine's just bad enough to flunk the vision test, and if it wasn't for astigmatism, I would only need the glasses for driving or other distance activities such as watching movies.

I got the glasses four days ago, and pretty much within the first couple of hours, started to notice I could see better. However, I keep having a hard time adjusting the position that allows me to see best (I'm always within a millimeter or two, though), and its kind of weird to see the bars. Plus, if i look up and past the glasses, I notice blurriness. If I adjust them, I have to tilt my head to see down, or adjust them. Do those of you who wear smaller frame glasses have that problem? What do you do? I worry about looking stupid or fidgety if I touch my glasses a lot.

Do you tilt your head more when you look up and down? How long did it take until you got used to the right position? Did you just KNOW it?

I'm glad I can see better, but I'm getting slightly annoyed and wonder if I'll get used to knowing how to look. I guess I could have tried to find bigger frames, but I like how these look on me better. In fact, I don't mind how I look in them and am glad I can see a lot better.

As for contacts, my eye doctor said to wear the glasses for several months before coming back, so my eyes can get used to having something. Is that common? I don't mind wearing glasses as long as I get used to the frames, and looking a certain way at things. If I'm constantly going to have a lot of problems (or never get them to be right), then I'll probably try to get contacts as soon as I can.

Some of my friends who had glasses pretty much most of their lives said it took about a week to get used to wearing smaller framed glasses. I wonder if it will take me longer? Or should I go back to the place I got them and have them tell me the best position, as well as how to look? They put them in the correct position (or so I thought) when I got them, and adjusted them to fit me perfectly.

You need to have the frames adjusted so that they sit comfortably on your face and are naturally in the correct position. When I last got new frames they adjusted the fit and put a dot on the display lenses where the centre of my eye was before sending them off to be fitted with the correct lenses. When I had new lenses put in that frame I didn't notice any problems.

As for getting new contacts at the same time, I don't think it matters, I would have failed the driving vision test in the glasses that I wore when I first got contacts and had a new prescription for both done at the same time.

2009-11-30 19:06:19 by Karen

Before the prescription was filled, the frame fit snug around my temple on my face, but after the lenses were fit, it fits way too loose and I am now constantly having to push my eyeglasses up to my face. How can this be corrected? BTW I had this done at lenscrafters, will they fix it for free?

It is possible to decrease the width of a frame only if it is made of a plastic such as zyl. There is a tool that can be used on the bridge (point between the two lenses) to make the dbl (distance between lenses) smaller and thereby make the overall frame width smaller. BUT, no matter what type material your frame is made of, you may be simply needing an adjustment of the frame. If mounting the lenses has opened up the angle of the temples where they meet the front of the frames, this will cause the frame to fit very loose. So go in and let them look at the frame. I bet it just needs adjustment.

2007-11-06 11:35:20 by kylechonghokim