Emergency Glasses Repair

The first thing you learn about glasses, they break. If you are like me, and you have been using reading glasses for years, this is a problem you may have had several times. With reading glasses, you only wear them for reading, sewing, tying fishing knots, and other things close to your face. The rest of the time you have them in a glasses case of some kind in your pocket or purse. Then one day you take them out of their case while shopping so you can read your shopping list, and you find this. Yes, the temple hinge screw has come out and is lost forever.

This is a five-minute repair, and the cure is as simple as a new screw.

Assuming you can see well enough, you can buy a glasses repair kit at the pharmacy, sometimes. But what if the screw from the kit is the wrong size.

You can go to the optometrist to get them repaired, but what if the optometrist office is closed.

You are not at home so you can’t use parts from your old glasses, so what do you do?

I found a trick that can get you past all these troubles.

If I was at home I would just go to my parts box and replace the screw but I wasn't at home at the time.

A sewing kits safety pin, you can find sewing kits almost everywhere, gas stations, truck stops, variety stores, even a pharmacy, or your own purse. You can replace the temple hinge screw with a safety pin.

Open the safety pin and line up the temple hinge screw hole with the hinge holes in the rim ends.

Insert the open safety pin into the hinge screw hole in the rim ends and temple.

Close the safety pin and your glasses are ready to wear hands free.

It may look funny and get you a few stares when you are shopping, but you will be able to read hands free, and it will prevent you from losing your temple.

Now you can take your time going to the optometrist office to get them fixed or using your spare parts at home.

Every time someone in the family gets a new prescription for their glasses all the possible useful parts get put into our repair box along with the tools to fix glasses. Temples, screws, nose pads, even temple tips and side guards, all go into the repair box.

Un fortunately I don’t have the right size of a screw, and my optometrist no longer sells these frames so I am stuck with the safety pin until the new glasses come in.

None Of My Screws Fit

With all these parts that you can see.

And not one screw will fit for me.

But fear yea not and this be true.

I found a cure that’s not a screw.

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