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Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by headbee »

cornstalks wrote: post #24

The best method I’ve found so far: 1. Get your glasses wet with warm water. 2. Apply dish soap to both lenses. 3. Gently rub the soapy water over the lenses. For some stubborn things (like sunscreen) in the edges I sometimes gently use a Q-tip. 4. Rinse under warm water. Gently rub with your fingers to agitate the soapy water and help rinse it off. 5. (This is the important step) Adjust the faucet’s flow to a low lam…

Using soap on surfaces that have an oleophobic coating can degrade the quality of the coating. This is even worse with dish soap.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by jefftk »

chmod775 wrote: post #34
mmh0000 wrote: post #20

This article describes way too much OCD and wasted time. Here's my solution: * Buy 4x pairs cheapish glasses from Zenni. * Beat the crap out of them. * Replace as needed.

A good chunk of people require glasses that need to be custom-made. Once you also add amenities like photochromic lenses, it quickly adds up.

> A good chunk of people require glasses that need to be custom-made.

Zenni makes their glasses to order; what do you mean?

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by ryantgtg »

mmh0000 wrote: post #20

This article describes way too much OCD and wasted time. Here's my solution: * Buy 4x pairs cheapish glasses from Zenni. * Beat the crap out of them. * Replace as needed.

I think it comes across as OCD because the author is logging everything they do. But the gist is basically “buy a 10 pack of cloths and wipe your glasses.”

That’s what I do. And I shake the cloth beforehand to get sand from my pocket off of it. I do exactly four shakes, plus one extra swoosh that technically can’t be categorized as a shake due to its fluidity rating of 95 on the Holloway Motion Scale.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by sdfhdhjdw3 »

headbee wrote: post #61
cornstalks wrote: post #24

The best method I’ve found so far: 1. Get your glasses wet with warm water. 2. Apply dish soap to both lenses. 3. Gently rub the soapy water over the lenses. For some stubborn things (like sunscreen) in the edges I sometimes gently use a Q-tip. 4. Rinse under warm water. Gently rub with your fingers to agitate the soapy water and help rinse it off. 5. (This is the important step) Adjust the faucet’s flow to a low lam…

Using soap on surfaces that have an oleophobic coating can degrade the quality of the coating. This is even worse with dish soap.

How else do you get rid of grease? The scattering of light on grease on the lenses is unbearable for me whenever I don't use dish soap.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by jefftk »

hammyhavoc wrote: post #46
chmod775 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A good chunk of people require glasses that need to be custom-made. Once you also add amenities like photochromic lenses, it quickly adds up.

Yeah, I spend £300+ per pair on not having coke bottle thick glasses that are thin and light, and made out of polycarb.

At least in the US that would be much cheaper: I can get high index (1.74) lenses for +$75: https://www.zennioptical.com/glasses-lenses (so the overall glasses are ~$100)

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by jackspratts »

Hotest water you can stand. Blast copious amount over lenses, both sides. This removes some grease and large grit. Put several drops of detergent on finger tip and rub onto thumb tip. Using thumb and finger coat detergent onto both sides of both lenses then rub gently. A few seconds is all you need. This removes all remaining oils and suspends any remaining grit preventing friction scratches during cleaning. Rinse lenses with hot water and gently dry with paper towel. Hold up to light to check progress. Remaining smears if any come off with paper towel. Been doing it for decades. It never scratches and it cleans like new.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by onemoresoop »

sgtnoodle wrote: post #29

I hate the metalized coatings they put on lenses these days because they are so fragile. The antireflective coatings "craze" when exposed to thermal cycles. My current pair I ordered without AR coating, and they still came with a "hardness" coating. All it takes to ruin it is a spattering of aerosol sunscreen in passing. A few weeks ago, one lens got bad enough that I soaked it in glass etching acid overnight and the…

That's the reason I go cheaper on sunglasses. You can find quite good ones for 15-20 and I go through 2-3 pairs a year. No matter how well one takes care of them the coatings and lenses get ruined quite quickly..

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by Kehvarl »

If I have a proper cleaning cloth and some cleaning spray handy I'll use that, otherwise I'll just use my shirt or a clean microfiber cloth. Even with that abuse, the coating on my lenses tends to last roughly 2 years. I've never managed to cause enough scratching on my lenses to bother me before it was time to see about getting new ones anyway.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by thedracle »

cornstalks wrote: post #24

The best method I’ve found so far: 1. Get your glasses wet with warm water. 2. Apply dish soap to both lenses. 3. Gently rub the soapy water over the lenses. For some stubborn things (like sunscreen) in the edges I sometimes gently use a Q-tip. 4. Rinse under warm water. Gently rub with your fingers to agitate the soapy water and help rinse it off. 5. (This is the important step) Adjust the faucet’s flow to a low lam…

The dish soap method worked best for me. But the best method was getting lasik, now my old glasses are in a drawer gathering dust.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by eyelidlessness »

mmh0000 wrote: post #20

This article describes way too much OCD and wasted time. Here's my solution: * Buy 4x pairs cheapish glasses from Zenni. * Beat the crap out of them. * Replace as needed.

Just seeing “I clean my glasses” (before the title was corrected), I thought: gee it’s about time I place that Zenni order to replace my favorite pair that broke a few months back. Went ahead and ordered two just to have a backup, for all of $30.

Granted I do clean my glasses (soap and water after each shower while they’re steamed up, gently towel dry). And I’m not much for disposable goods, these will last me years. But in the same spirit, I also like that Zenni accepts my expired prescription. My vision hasn’t changed enough to warrant another trip to the optometrist, so why waste the money, or my time, or theirs?

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