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Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by dboreham »

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…

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Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by flappyeagle »

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…

I do almost the exact thing except with cold water.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by stereo »

buildbot wrote: post #171
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…

Are optical coatings that sensitive that warm water might bother them? I'll have to treat my lenses differently.

The anti-reflective coating expands and contracts differently with heat than the plastic lens underneath. A big temperature difference will cause it to crack. So don't use ice cold water, use water that's at room temperature, which is usually what comes out of your cold tap.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by vel0city »

onemoresoop wrote: post #67
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..

The one recommendation about going with cheap sunglasses is getting polarized ones. Good polarization is practically half the difference between the ultra cheap and the really fancy sunglasses in my experience. Decent polarization really cuts down on glare. There are several brands out there making pretty affordable pairs of glasses with polarization filters on them. I get mine for ~$35, often last me at least a year or so.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by qwertywert_ »

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…

I just air-dry my glasses after dish soap cleaning, by whipping it in the air with my arm. Works pretty well actually.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by int_19h »

dheerajvs wrote: post #125
pizza234 wrote: post #87

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Grease is not entirely caught by cloth; the stickier/large the grease patch, the more it will spread over the lens, making it time consuming to clean.

My lenses have oleophobic coating. I find breathing on them and rubbing with microfiber cloth to be quite effective even when they are coated with grease.

Try running them through a soap cleaning once. You might be surprised at how much cleaner they'll end up looking after (been there with my spouse!).

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by int_19h »

glerk wrote: post #128
green-salt wrote: post #73

If you think you can withstand and are a candidate for lasik, I highly recommend it. Like any medical procedure, weigh options, cost, risk.

Daily contacts are also a great alternative if your prescription isn’t too high. I used to use monthlies, and only recently found dailies with my level of astigmatism. The difference in comfort is pretty significant for me.

And if you can tolerate wearing them.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by OJFord »

stereo wrote: post #203
buildbot wrote: post #171

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Are optical coatings that sensitive that warm water might bother them? I'll have to treat my lenses differently.

The anti-reflective coating expands and contracts differently with heat than the plastic lens underneath. A big temperature difference will cause it to crack. So don't use ice cold water, use water that's at room temperature, which is usually what comes out of your cold tap.

> water that's at room temperature, which is usually what comes out of your cold tap.

Is that really your experience where you live? In mine, the cold tap is cold - once allowed to run through whatever's in the pipes in the building, since it's come from underground.

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