In message , gazz writes

"Bill" wrote in message
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Andy Dingley writes
On 11 Mar, 14:35, Bill wrote:

I'm told the glasses are 35+
years old and are important because of some feature of the lens coating.

New glasses. Glasses are _really_ cheap these days, even cheaper on-
line, and even with complex coatings.

This would all make sense to me and most people, but I seem to be
committed to a repair. I think the lenses just have some sort of
tinting which makes text easier to read, but it's not for me to ask
or comment.

I've soaked some of the old glue in acetone and not much seems to
have happened, so the plan now is to cut out a bit of strong cloth to
fit round the hinges and soak it in epoxy. This will retain the
glasses' fixed wing feature that they must have had for the last many years.

It's all a bit depressing.

why not make them into futuristic glasses, glue some small rare earth
magnets to the stubs where the arms used to attach, then get the person
who wears them to have a couple of flat faces piercing put in their
face so the glasses can cling to their face.

Just drill a hole in between the eyebrows (experiment on Alaisdair
Darling first), hammer a rawlplug in, then you can just screw them in

rotate them out of the way when not required


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geoff