Oh!pEnions: 20240308 Losing Focus Pt. 2

20240308 Losing Focus Pt. 2

Whelp, in less than three months, my glasses broke again. I thought the metal frame would have lasted longer but unfortunately, I was wrong. The problem with my getting new frames/ glasses has been quite annoying for the last decade because I seldom return to the same shop after each breakage incident. It was either my luck or, that the frames I've chosen never last.

The damage this time were one of the padding to the nose pads. They were not made from silicon or whatever soft material. Disaster struck when after some lens cleaning, one snag with the cleaning cloth broke it. And all of a sudden, I have bad thoughts about the manufacturer and their family members.

Its not the End of The World

I mean, if you look at it from another person's point of view, a pair of broken glasses is not their problem. OK, maybe that example is not right but whatever it is, it is still not their problem. And while moping about what to do, it is not their problem. Still, I do know that in the following days, I would lose focus in what I am doing or about to do.

The Solution

I have two solutions that comes to mind. And both require me to do some work, which on a hot night, is anything but. And both requires me to work on the glasses no matter which path I took.

A. The Repair Kit

One way to make sure this won't happen again is to get a repair kit. And so, off to Shopee and China surfing I go. And after two days of searching and looking for the best bargain (I'm besotted with FREE SHIPPING as long as my order is over RM15.00) I do realise that, I have to pay money more than I wanted to. But on a more serious note, what am I going to do with the excess screws that might or might not fit to my current and future glasses?

The Glasses Repair kit and I'm not sure what I'd do with the extra parts or if they would rust after some time.

B. Repairing it myself

Looking back, I am pretty sure I do have a few frames which I can salvage the parts from. Its just that... well, it's just that these nose pads have either browned and usually have icky soft green goo that you can spread like a mini jam. That's the result of my sweat dripping and flowing onto the nose pads and reacting with the metal. Them sweats just being their acidic self, did what they did.

And so, I am going to transplant one of the nose pads (left) onto my current glasses (right).
Note both lens have yellowed, a phenomenon which happens about two to three weeks (or even sooner) after you wore the glasses. That's Malaysian weather for you.

You can just remove the pad by unscrewing the screw. Note all the green gunk that accumulated over the years, from the screw to the pad and into the receptacle.