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Okay. You don't wear glasses, or you throw away shades when they're old? Maybe you won't get this, but for anyone who's lost a minute screw from the hinge of eyeglasses there is a quick fix.
A line of finely made fashion ear studs, with threading in standard sizes that mate to the tapped out hinges
of eye wear. The 'jewelry' portion of the studs serves as a graspable area for the fingers, enabling less-adroit consumers to spin the screw down manually without using tweezers or a jeweler's screwdriver.
When sight is more important than looks.
Optician's Screw Kit
http://www.opticalv...n=Item&ItemCode=205
Contains most popular screws [reensure, Jul 17 2007]
Pierced Eyeglasses
http://www.piercedglasses.com/
Yeah, not at all the same thing as the idea. But kind of similar and interesting. [Noexit, Jul 18 2007]
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I can get a eyeglass fix kit, with the screwdirver and a host of screws, at a dollar store, for a dollar. It's small enough to keep in your wallet, purse, glove box, or pocket. |
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Maybe a screw kept in the arm of the glasses, with a t-style screwdriver and spare screws. |
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For those of us who dont have pierced ears. |
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I SO GET THIS. I used to wear glasses, and it's a bitch when you lose a screw. I like the idea of always having the repair parts on your person. I like the idea because I couldn't keep track of the repair kit (or sometimes your not wearing pants for an extended period of time in which you may require a quick fix) |
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/not wearing pants for an extended period of time/ One more example of the confusion that may occur between citizens on opposite sides of the Atlantic... |
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Or the spectacle manufacturers coould try
fixing what is very obviously a
fundamental design flaw. I don't carry a
spare door-hinge for my car. (Well, I used
to when I had a mid-90's Jag, but that's
another story.) |
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The savings to my managed care should afford me remote call-out repair service, with a screw and a smile. |
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Great idea. I've never worn glasses, but I'm fed up with fixing other people's. |
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// With all this memory metal around, I can't understand why spectacle frames aren't moulded in one piece anyway |
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How would the use of memory metals make it easier to mould spectacles from one piece? Do tell me more.
Regardless: |
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1) Memory metal is expensive. We're not all rich. |
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2) Glasses need to be bent to fit our unique heads. One of your ears will be slightly lower than the other - we are far from symmetrical. Memory metals bend right back, making fitting them extremely difficult. |
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A good idea... but why not have some spare screws screwed into an unobtrusive part of the glasses? You only need one size that way, and you don't have to remember to wear the right ear studs. |
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I've always wondered why they don't use Nylock style nuts on glasses. |
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As a glasses wearer, and wearer of pierced earrings, I'm not sure how I feel about this idea. I suppose in a major emergency it could be helpful. I almost never close my glasses so loose screws aren't really a problem. Still, any port in a storm, right? |
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Check out my link, solves the problem altogether. |
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