I am currently on a bikepackingtrip in sarajevo and my optical sunglasses broke.
Any good ideas on where and how to fix those fast. The broken part is plastic, i tried glueing it: didn’t work at all.
It doesn’t have to be beautiful, just working an not destroying the glasses. With the right spareparts its easy to make them look like new.
Thanks
by jackl_98
10 Comments
Tape. “Super glue” is useless, gorilla or duct tape possibly round a splint will look like shit but do the job
€2 on new sunglasses.
Can you get Gorilla glue? I’ve just got through a pot on stuff I was convinced I had no hope of staying together, particularly some headphones that came apart at a high stress joint. Daughter ran a half marathon with them the next day. Very impressive.
I had this happen once. I ripped the other one off, drilled two small holes in the front corners of the frames and knotted some paracord thru the holes, like the picture.
Good luck
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I don’t know if it’s sold in Bosnia and Herzegovina but if you can find it there (at a hardware store perhaps) Sugru should be exactly right to fix this in a durable way.
EDIT: couldn’t figure out if it’s sold anywhere around you so here’s what the inventor used to experiment with to develop Sugru: silicone caulk mixed with sawdust. I’d try to get sawdust as fine as possible and would try to mix that at a ratio of roughly one to one with the silicone. it’s probably not as durable as Sugru itself but I’m assuming more durable than anything taped. best of luck!
You are in a bit of trouble, choices are limited and so you will need to compromise. You will have to do as some others say, find a splint and tape it back together in the open position. If you are desperate for some ability to close them, use two short sections of zip tie (one above the other on the inside of the frame) as the splint. Get them fixed properly when back home. As trouble goes, I’d rate it as annoyance level but not much more. Good luck with the rest of your trip.
My genuine fear to go on vacation anywhere…
Maybe a copper pipe? Hit it into the shape of the glasses, slip it over the plastic and wrap it in fishing wire, tightly.
Then secure the wire with gorilla tape.
GAFFA TAPE and SPLINT. Replace the gaffa tape gets worn out. Keep on rolling.
( Glasses that look cool: The hinge as you found out, is shit. Having worn many pairs of sunnies in my time I always look at the fit, the hinge , frame material, the lense etc. pretty much all at once. My last pair that were amazing ( ten years use ) were made in USA Rayban Predators. After that I moved to Safety glasses with new lenses ( I have two sets of frames which are very tough ). Best cheapest glasses I ever had were Vuarnet with nylon frames. ex military Surplus. Tragically lost.
Find a local who whittles some kind of really strong wood and ask them to make a new arm. Maybe without a hinge… it just plugs in. Or whittle one yourself ?
Good luck! :- )
I am ruthless when inspecting glasses frames. I cannot abide expensive nonsense. Plastic is notorious for cracking up, it needs to be beefy. !!!!
Take a bobby pin and clip it into 2-4 short splints and secure them in place around the break with a little dab of glue.
Then get some heat shrink tubing from a hardware or electrical supply store and slide it over the glasses arm and splints and run a lighter over it so the tubing shrinks snugly around the break.
Used that trick for a pair of my glasses and it held up for over a year.
You could also wind twine tightly around the splints, but the tubing would glue in place more securely.
ice cream stick or piece of paper folded multiple times as splints for keeping both parts aligned, and duct tape would be my quick solution