Eyeglass repair--broken monofilament lens retainer

Step 4 Mounting the lens--step 2

Move your fingers along the lens pulling the monofilament line over the lens and into the groove for the line. Finally, roll the line over the other corner of the lens.

My frame does not fit around the lens quite as tightly as when the glasses were new from the factory. But, the lens does not wiggle and it seems to work very well. I wish I had thought of all of this on Saturday evening when my lens fell onto my lap. I could have gone to the sporting goods section at our 24 hour big box store and had my glasses working for me again after about 30 minutes of work.

I have not checked yet with my optometrist to see about an official repair of my monofilament line. My wife talked with someone at church Sunday who had experienced the same problem. She had to send her glasses away for several days to get a new monofilament line installed. One listing in the search engine when I was looking for information on replacing the monofilament line appeared to advertise various repairs to eyeglasses. It appeared that business was charging $25 US for replacement of a monofilament line. Who knows? Maybe my optometrist would do it for free while I wait. But, he will not be open for a while yet, and I am using my newly repaired glasses as I am preparing this Instructable.

Comments

[danray35e]

I inadvertently left my glasses sitting on my dash board one hot day, and came back to find that the heat caused the lens to expand, popping the mono-filament.
I had bought them at walmart eye clinic. I took them in, and they fixed them while I waited. I had no idea the lens was held in place by monofilament before that happened. Your instructable will come in handy one day.

[Phil B]

Thank you for looking at my Instructable. It is good you were able to have your glasses fixed easily. When mine failed, no such stores, especially the one I use, were open. For times like that some fishing line in the workshop is handy. The one difficulty I experienced is that it is difficult to see without your glasses while working on your glasses. I had bought some reading glasses for use in pistol target shooting, and they helped a great deal, even though they were not perfect.