Repair to reading glasses

[Philip Davies]

My friend, Jim, told me a couple of years ago, that he had never broken a pair of spectacles. (He’s my age and has similar interests). I break mine with depressing frequency.
The weak point on these, which i’ve had about three months, is the bridge. Insurance covers the other pair, broken in the same place.
Since I need them in the workshop anyway, I thought I might as well glue them into a pair of safety glasses!

[stillldoinit]

Pretty ingenious I must say. Good job!!

[DIYer]

Thanks Philip Davies! We've added your Safety Reading Glasses to our Miscellaneous category,
as well as to your builder page: Philip Davies's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:

Safety Reading Glasses by Philip Davies

tags: glass, safety

[Toolmaker51]

I'm on the fence; have started not wearing eyeglasses in shop, just safety specs. None of the commercial safety frames suit me in fit or cost; Philip Davies solution sure does!
Though I'd be tempted to remove one pair of temples, not having so many ears...

[stillldoinit]

A few years before I left the workforce, my eyesight improved to the point I did not need glasses but still had to have safety glasses and the cheaters. I did a lot of work overhead in electrical cabinets and machine repair so I had a problem. I was talking to an electrical contractor about that and he suggested I look at Grainger supply as we did a lot of business with them anyway. I found these, bifocal readers. These are called double D which is readers top and bottom and clear in the middle. I still use them when welding or grinding even though I need glasses now again but do not have prescription safety glasses. These are available in various diopter and different style frames for only about $20.
Only need a couple ears, but missing ears you could just tie a string to the end of each one and drape across the top of head.
Bill

[tonyfoale]

I never break my glasses at the nose bridge but I am always breaking the arms off. This solution should help me because the arms on safety glasses are usually fixed more substantially. Thanks for the idea.

[rossbotics]

My friend, Jim, told me a couple of years ago, that he had never broken a pair of spectacles. (He’s my age and has similar interests). I break mine with depressing frequency.
The weak point on these, which i’ve had about three months, is the bridge. Insurance covers the other pair, broken in the same place.
Since I need them in the workshop anyway, I thought I might as well glue them into a pair of safety glasses!

Good idea, I'll have to remember that one

Doug

[Philip Davies]

Spectacles rarely fall off if one has four ears, but I’ve broken these glasses already and have had to re-glue them. (Hot melt). Meanwhile I have lost the lens from another pair, and without my glasses, I cannot find it in the detritus on the workshop floor.

[olderdan]

You need to stop head butting things, seriously though I find a sweaty environment makes them tend to slip forward and down the nose, really annoying if working on floors etc. In the end I fixed that by drilling two small holes in the earpieces and threading though a loose length of cloth covered elastic.

[ranald]

My friend, Jim, told me a couple of years ago, that he had never broken a pair of spectacles. (He’s my age and has similar interests). I break mine with depressing frequency.
The weak point on these, which i’ve had about three months, is the bridge. Insurance covers the other pair, broken in the same place.
Since I need them in the workshop anyway, I thought I might as well glue them into a pair of safety glasses!

I had staff working in parks mtce & when I returned to vehicle one day there was a brand new pair of safety glasses with a bullit hole through a lens: these real glass ones were expensive to supply staff so asked how? No response! I reintroduced a one pair per person per 3 months. No more silly buggers & I introduced cheaper plastic lens safety lenses to boot. I had previously had a guy who wouldn't clean them,(so sat on them every couple of days, to get a new pair as the bridge was broken. fixed him up with 3 months or take out of pay!