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Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by wyclif »

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…

This is almost exactly what I do. After a lot of trial and error I found it works for me. The only thing I would add is to never use paper products to dry your Rx glasses or sunglasses if they have plastic lenses; the fibers in the paper will scratch the lenses.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by wyclif »

foobarian wrote: post #222
andrelaszlo wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I asked my optician to please give me glass lenses and avoid the shenanigans with inferior materials, but they declined citing safety concerns with broken glass. Ah well.

There's absolutely nothing unsafe about glass lenses if you're a normal person and don't abuse them. They're actually superior to plastic in terms of longevity and durability. What I've found is that the tradeoff is durability vs. weight. Glass is heavier than plastic but if your glasses are well-fitted and adjusted, this is not a problem. Also, in terms of cleaning you can be a lot less careful with glass and they won't scratch. I had a pair of glasses with plastic lenses and my wife tried to "help" me by cleaning them with a paper towel when I wasn't around. The lenses got scratched up and unusable. Never again...it's glass lenses in Shuron frames for me!

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by wyclif »

causi wrote: post #149
andrelaszlo wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Another reason to consider glass lenses.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by iLemming »

alliao wrote: post #200
iLemming wrote: post #194

Nobody uses baking soda? Really? I still can't find anything better to remove the fingerprints and other stains off eyeglasses. I would use a pinch of soda, add a few drops of water, then gently rub it around the glass, repeat on the other side and finally rinse it all off. It works better than alcohol and soap. Leaves no residue, no streaks, nothing. Putting glasses on after, feels like switching to 8K from 1080p.

you're kidding right, is it plastic or glass lenses? no microscratches? lol

I'm not kidding at all. When you add some water to that pinch of baking soda it turns into a mushy puree, rubbing it gently won't harm the surface. Sodium bicarbonate is an alkali, and great at dissolving grease. It removes fingerprint stains off the glass extremely well. And I think it does a better job of keeping the glass non-attractive to dust particles.

No, there won't be any micro-scratches if it's used gently. After all, I'm not telling you to use kosher table salt, right? Seriously, just try baking soda.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by majormajor »

wyclif wrote: post #252
foobarian wrote: post #222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I asked my optician to please give me glass lenses and avoid the shenanigans with inferior materials, but they declined citing safety concerns with broken glass. Ah well.

There's absolutely nothing unsafe about glass lenses if you're a normal person and don't abuse them. They're actually superior to plastic in terms of longevity and durability. What I've found is that the tradeoff is durability vs. weight. Glass is heavier than plastic but if your glasses are well-fitted and adjusted, this is not a problem. Also, in terms of cleaning you can be a lot less careful with glass and they w…

I would rephrase that as: There's nothing dangerous about them until an accident happens. And that's why it's not worth it to me. I saw my dad's eye surgery from a glass-lenses incident years ago - he was lucky, it still was an awful experience. Should he have been wearing a pair of goggles while working in the yard? Sure. But I've forgotten that too!

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by aurizon »

wyclif wrote: post #252
foobarian wrote: post #222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I asked my optician to please give me glass lenses and avoid the shenanigans with inferior materials, but they declined citing safety concerns with broken glass. Ah well.

There's absolutely nothing unsafe about glass lenses if you're a normal person and don't abuse them. They're actually superior to plastic in terms of longevity and durability. What I've found is that the tradeoff is durability vs. weight. Glass is heavier than plastic but if your glasses are well-fitted and adjusted, this is not a problem. Also, in terms of cleaning you can be a lot less careful with glass and they w…

Most eye 'glasses' are eye plastics. Plastic lenses are softer than cellulose = kleenex scratches them. There is no easy way to avoid scratching plastic apart from detergent rinsing and soft lens cloth pat drying. I buy true glass lenses, hardened so they break into splinters (I have never broken one) To clean, I wash with warm water and dish soap = they last for years and I need new ones due to eye aging before they ever get scratchy. A few others made this point as well.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by ourmandave »

I buy a 500 count box of lens wipes and clean them whenever they get smudged enough to notice.

I get inexpensive glasses from Zenni so they're almost disposable.

Cleaning them like your the old man from Toy Story restoring Woody to collectable quality just feels like overkill.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by iLemming »

mdemare wrote: post #204

This, but for keyboards.

Tip #1: Try a mechanical keyboard.

Tip #2: Try a split keyboard.

Giving any of that a heartfelt attempt, I promise you, makes it really difficult to go back to the old way. Some mechanical keyboards are very durable. I've been using Kinesis Advantage boards and can you believe it? I washed them multiple times. First time I spilled beer. The keyboard worked, but some keys felt different, they've become "sticky". I opened it, removed all the keycaps, took out the PCBs and washed them in warm soapy water. After drying and reassembling, the keyboard worked better than the first time I unboxed it. The second time I spilled soup on it, without any hesitation I opened it; and washed it again; and it worked just as before. I had more incidents (with different boards) and each time I would follow the same procedure, and the keyboards still work.

So, if the idea of washing the keyboard feels appealing to you, then Tip #1.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by elliekelly »

wyclif wrote: post #253
causi wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Another reason to consider glass lenses.

Can you even get glass lenses anymore? I don’t recall seeing it as an option the last time I ordered a pair but maybe since Zenni tends to focus on affordability they don’t bother offering the (presumably more expensive) option.
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