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[ramtops]

further to yesterday's unfortunate incident involving spectacles ...

I actually broke the arm, rather than the lens. And as they are almost four years old, it was probably just old age that did for them (I can sympathise ..). I did have Vision Express insurance when I got them, but they never reminded me about it, and it wasn't renewed.

perlmonger has very kindly mended them, in some Heath Robinson-esque manner involving a plastic drinking straw and some red sticky tape. So now I look like a pikey, but at least I can see again - the spex I was wearing were giving me eye strain.

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[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

If there's someplace near you selling cheap over-the-counter sunglasses or reading glasses, and you have a little time free, you can try taking your glasses in and comparing hinges. (Size and number of sticky-out thingies, chiefly.)

You may well find a pair of cheap glasses from which you can scavenge the temple pieces to repair your beloved spectacles. Even if they're not a perfect fit, they'll hold up better than tape for the interval between now and whenever you manage to get a new pair.

The first time I tried this, I found a match not only for the hinge but also for the color of the frames, and ended up wearing the amended glasses for another year.