I was recently away for work over in Western Australia several thousand kilometres from home and had a malfunction; I broke my reading glasses. The arm snapped off at about half way along making them unwearable. I won't say what words burst forth from my mouth exactly, but it was something like, mother fucker, that's all I fucken needed on day one of my fucken work trip. Fuck!
Being the handy fellow I am I figured I'd be able to work the problem so found some super glue and green masking tape and went to work. You can see the result above...a rather fucken terrible repair that made me look like a total dick head when they were on my face and considering that's anytime I'm using a computer, my phone or reading a book...well, I wasn't too happy about it as I'd be meeting heaps of people during the course of my work trip.
They were useable though and that was the main thing; I made peace with my dick headliness and moved on with life.
When I got back home I considered a better repair - I have to make these $900 glasses last until the new year when my health insurance renews my balances so I can get a new pair for about $300 due to the input from my health insurer. So, I decided to come up with a decent repair option.
On thinking about it I decided against removing the green tape just in case the arm broke off again which I thought may complicate matters so I ended up finding some electricians' heat shrink tubing to hide the green tape. You can see the final repair below.
Heat shrink tubing usually slips over electrical wiring and a heat gun is used to shrink it back to fit snugly. The stuff I found had an internal glue coating inside the tube as well and when I heat-gunned it the glue melted and bonded to the glasses arm which has actually resulted in a very strong repair...and it's not fucken green.
It still looks a bit dumb; my girlfriend suggested I do the other side to even-out the look but I just can't be bothered. If anyone comments I'll just tell them to mind their own fucken business. Ok, not really, I just don't want to invest any more time into glasses I'll be throwing away (probably be retaining for a spare emergency pair) in January.
Have you ever had to do running repairs to your glasses or something you rely on day to day? Tell me about it in the comments if you want to.
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