How do you all super-clean the inside of your car windshield? I find those to get a lot dirtier and greasier than my eyeglasses!
Also kimwipes.
How I clean my glasses
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Re: How I clean my glasses
#212The 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…
0. Wash your hands :)
It's better to do a final rinse with RO or distilled water.
Re: How I clean my glasses
#213The 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 best method I've found so far (I've worn glasses for over four decades): https://www.amazon.com/Zeiss-Pre-Moistened-Cleaning-Wipes-Co... If they are especially dirty, I'll rinse them with clean water and maybe a bit of soap first.
And they are easy to get, I see them at walmart in 50 and 100 count.
Re: How I clean my glasses
#214I just use isopropanol solution (70% isopropanol/30% water) then wipe with a bit of toilet paper/whatever
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7-8mm thick?! That's insane. I am pretty sure you can get thinner lenses by using a different index. It will be more expensive but definitely worth it. My Rx is -8.5 and my lenses are reasonably thin.
At your strong prescription, are there any styles of frames or lenses that you've found reduce facial displacement?
Smaller is better, although I've found a medium sized Ray-Ban carbon frame that looks modern and is also extremely light. Higher index making the lens thinner also reduces displacement. Most people don't notice I have a strong prescription.
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7-8mm thick?! That's insane. I am pretty sure you can get thinner lenses by using a different index. It will be more expensive but definitely worth it. My Rx is -8.5 and my lenses are reasonably thin.
I can definitely get thinner lenses using a higher-index material, but I selected this lens material specifically because it has a higher Abbe number and thus has less chromatic aberrations. The thickness doesn't bother me, but chromatic aberrations do, a lot. I cannot tolerate the excessive colour fringing high-index lenses have, and while contact lenses don't have this problem I dislike those even more. I have lens…
The chromatic aberrations are there but I think you just need to get used to them. Alternative is heavy glasses.
Re: How I clean my glasses
#217Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can definitely get thinner lenses using a higher-index material, but I selected this lens material specifically because it has a higher Abbe number and thus has less chromatic aberrations. The thickness doesn't bother me, but chromatic aberrations do, a lot. I cannot tolerate the excessive colour fringing high-index lenses have, and while contact lenses don't have this problem I dislike those even more. I have lens…
The chromatic aberrations are there but I think you just need to get used to them. Alternative is heavy glasses.
Also - the only aberration I notice is with blue light e.g a bright LED. It goes away if you look directly at it. How is your experience?
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I asked the optician how they clean glasses: - Wash with cold water. Warm or hot water might ruin the coating. (Our water comes supercooled right out of the tap in the winter,so in order to not have my hands instantly frozen into a solid block of ice I go for 15—20 degrees or so.) - Use a drop of mild dish soap without ammonia. - Dry them with a soft clean cloth (they use microfiber I think, I just use a random soft…
Wash with cold water. Warm or hot water might ruin the coating. This is why I worry about radiant heat from fires while camping or burning yard debris. Plastic lenses are usually opaque to IR and that means they're heating up even more than you might think.
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#219This, but for keyboards.
This is the approach I use https://www.wikihow.com/Clean-Keycaps
Denture tablets are gentle enough to not remove the legends from the keycap, especially if its laser printed and not etched, double shot, or dye sublimated legends. You can speed the drying process by putting your keycaps in a dryer bag wrapped with a towel and shaking the water loose from the keycaps. As for cleaning the rest of the board, i use an air duster to blow out any "board chow" that has settled between the keycap posts. For the rest of the keyboard, water with a drop or two if dishwasher detergent. You can use other cleaners but be careful of stronger, undiluted solvents as the denaturing effect in some ingredients will ruin the case over time.
Re: How I clean my glasses
#220The 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…
At the end of that sequence, I finish with a spray of deionized water (made using a resin filter specifically to make DI water), and a clean/dry microfiber wipe. DI water is an amazing all-around cleaner and leaves zero residue.
The best recommendation for it is remembering my chemistry teachers telling us that "water is the universal solvent". Well, filtering and removing all of the stuff previously dissolved in the water turns it into a very aggressive yet gentle solvent. It's great for cleaning surfaces and tools at the shop, windows at home, it makes glassware really shine, and of course, as a final step cleaning eyeglasses.
(I just use a kit & resin from CR Spotless, available online. No affiliation, hope it helps as a starting point)