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Make Your Own Prescription Swimming Goggles

Step 6Glue the Lenses to the Goggles (Very Curved Lenses)

Glue the Lenses to the Goggles (Very Curved Lenses)
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Follow these instructions if your lenses are very curved.

1. Mix the epoxy very well.

2. If the epoxy is very runny at first, you may want to wait till it thickens a little. Just don't wait too long, because when it begins to harden, it will harden quickly!

3. Apply the glue on the edges of the frame where the lenses will overlap the goggles. The top and bottom is left open for water to flow through. Put just enough so that there will be a good bond between the frame and the lens

4. Position the lenses onto the frames, and hold in place until the glue hardens. It should only take a few minutes.

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Apr 21, 2010. 6:24 AMdextercf says:
Please take caution not to rotate the lenses when gluing them to the new frame (swimgoggles).
If rotated, and these have "cylinder power" og "prisme power" to them, it would in the extreme make your vision worse than without the glasses.

Read up on optometrics to be sure!

I guess you could ask your local shop if they can fit your old glasses in your new frame (swim goggles). We do this all the time at the shop I work at.

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