Hello,

Have a pair of eyeglasses that split in the nose (Bridge area).

They are made from one of those "super bendable" alloys like
possibly Beryllium Copper, or Titanium, or...?

Really don't know what it is made of. These are just a guess.

I think I can re-solder them, but want to use the solder type
that offers the best possibility of holding.
Suggestions ?

Epoxy a better bet ?

Any suggestions and thoughts on this would be most appreciated.

Thanks,
Bob

Per Bob:
Have a pair of eyeglasses that split in the nose (Bridge area).

They are made from one of those "super bendable" alloys like
possibly Beryllium Copper, or Titanium, or...?

Really don't know what it is made of. These are just a guess.

I think I can re-solder them, but want to use the solder type
that offers the best possibility of holding.
Suggestions ?

Epoxy a better bet ?

I had a set of fancy-schmancy titanium frames that broke there.

The word I got from eyeglass shops was that they were not repairable.

--
Pete Cresswell

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Per Bob:
Have a pair of eyeglasses that split in the nose (Bridge area).

They are made from one of those "super bendable" alloys like
possibly Beryllium Copper, or Titanium, or...?

Really don't know what it is made of. These are just a guess.

I think I can re-solder them, but want to use the solder type
that offers the best possibility of holding.
Suggestions ?

Epoxy a better bet ?

I had a set of fancy-schmancy titanium frames that broke there.

The word I got from eyeglass shops was that they were not repairable.


would you expect them to tell you otherwise?

On 08/19/2015 10:55 AM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per Bob:
Have a pair of eyeglasses that split in the nose (Bridge area).

They are made from one of those "super bendable" alloys like
possibly Beryllium Copper, or Titanium, or...?

Really don't know what it is made of. These are just a guess.

I think I can re-solder them, but want to use the solder type
that offers the best possibility of holding.
Suggestions ?

Epoxy a better bet ?

I had a set of fancy-schmancy titanium frames that broke there.

The word I got from eyeglass shops was that they were not repairable.





Yep...the hinge on my eye glasses broke and I took them to a repair shop
and they said the same thing "Unrepairable"

I got ****ed off as I could fix the hinge myself if I only had a tiny
piece of copper. I found an old all copper penny and snipped off just
enough. Drilled a hole in it and used silver solder.

Though standard electrical solder would work, it's lead and I did not
want that on my face.

Silver solder works fine, just has a slightly higher melting point.

That was 25 years ago and the fix is still good.

On 8/19/2015 2:11 PM, philo wrote:



Yep...the hinge on my eye glasses broke and I took them to a repair shop
and they said the same thing "Unrepairable"

I got ****ed off as I could fix the hinge myself if I only had a tiny
piece of copper. I found an old all copper penny and snipped off just
enough. Drilled a hole in it and used silver solder.

Though standard electrical solder would work, it's lead and I did not
want that on my face.

Silver solder works fine, just has a slightly higher melting point.

That was 25 years ago and the fix is still good.

Good that you could do it, but to pay a shop to do that kind of work it
would cost more than a new frame.

On 08/19/2015 07:22 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 8/19/2015 2:11 PM, philo wrote:



Yep...the hinge on my eye glasses broke and I took them to a repair shop
and they said the same thing "Unrepairable"

I got ****ed off as I could fix the hinge myself if I only had a tiny
piece of copper. I found an old all copper penny and snipped off just
enough. Drilled a hole in it and used silver solder.

Though standard electrical solder would work, it's lead and I did not
want that on my face.

Silver solder works fine, just has a slightly higher melting point.

That was 25 years ago and the fix is still good.

Good that you could do it, but to pay a shop to do that kind of work it
would cost more than a new frame.



Since the frames are gold, new ones would have been fairly expensive

.... Even if they charged $100 an hour for repair, it was only a
half-hour's work

On 2015-08-20, philo wrote:

Since the frames are gold, new ones would have been fairly expensive

These can be repaired. A good optometrist should have facilities to
repair glasses, not jes sell new frames. If you can't find an
optometrist willing to do the work, try a good jeweler. I often
suspected my optometrist's repair tech sent my gold frames out to be
silver soldered by a local jeweler.

... Even if they charged $100 an hour for repair, it was only a
half-hour's work

If that. Last time I had my $200 gold frames repaired, it cost only
$40. Granted, this was over 10 yrs ago, but I suspect I'd be paying
over $500 dollars to replace these gold frames and six-focal lenses,
these days.

nb

I would repair them by adding a piece of metal, like from a paper clip, to bridge the break, and then use a mixture of epoxy and sewing thread wrapped around the old and new metal to hold them together. After the epoxy sets, I would paint the entire frame with a suitable color paint so that the patch looks like it was part of the original frame.

In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 19 Aug 2015 09:12:46 -0700 (PDT),
" wrote:

I would repair them by adding a piece of metal, like from a paper clip, to bridge the break, and then use a mixture of epoxy and sewing thread wrapped around the old and new metal to hold them together. After the epoxy sets, I would paint the entire frame with a suitable color paint so that the patch looks like it was part of the original frame.

That's a good idea, but painting the whole thing leaves the whole thing
subject to chipping.

Maybe you can just paint the part you fiddled with, up to the next
natural boundary, like the rim of a lens.

And instead of paint consider a marker pen. I have a brass candleabra
that I didn't want to take to have replated again (bought during WWII
when solid brass was impossible to get, unless you wanted valves for
your fighter plane.) And instead of painting I just used a "gold"
marer pen. Looked just like it did when I'd had it replated, 25 years
earlier. (It wasn't an area that ever shone, almost glossy but not
image reflective.)

They have silver colored pens too. Check the dollar store.

On 8/19/2015 10:49 AM, Bob wrote:
Hello,

Have a pair of eyeglasses that split in the nose (Bridge area).

They are made from one of those "super bendable" alloys like
possibly Beryllium Copper, or Titanium, or...?

Really don't know what it is made of. These are just a guess.

I think I can re-solder them, but want to use the solder type
that offers the best possibility of holding.
Suggestions ?

Epoxy a better bet ?

Any suggestions and thoughts on this would be most appreciated.

I took my mom's to a local jeweler that uses a laser to do spot-weld
repairs. Same-day service on eyeglasses, and the price was reasonable.

On 8/19/2015 11:49 AM, Bob wrote:
Hello,

Have a pair of eyeglasses that split in the nose (Bridge area).

They are made from one of those "super bendable" alloys like
possibly Beryllium Copper, or Titanium, or...?

Really don't know what it is made of. These are just a guess.

I think I can re-solder them, but want to use the solder type
that offers the best possibility of holding.
Suggestions ?

Epoxy a better bet ?

Any suggestions and thoughts on this would be most appreciated.

Thanks,
Bob

Tensile strength of epoxy is only about 10% that of metal. Solder is
not much better. I don't know about brazing but strength is higher.

I tossed a titanium pair bought from Zenni Optical that broke like that.
Had only paid $50 for them but if they were $350 that they would have
cost locally, I figure I might have got new frames.

No problem with other Zenni glasses but single bridge wire makes for a
weak link in high stress area.

Bob posted for all of us...



Hello,

Have a pair of eyeglasses that split in the nose (Bridge area).

They are made from one of those "super bendable" alloys like
possibly Beryllium Copper, or Titanium, or...?

Really don't know what it is made of. These are just a guess.

I think I can re-solder them, but want to use the solder type
that offers the best possibility of holding.
Suggestions ?

Epoxy a better bet ?

Any suggestions and thoughts on this would be most appreciated.

Thanks,
Bob

The eyeglass place I deal with has a lifetime warranty on their frames. For
the $$$ they should. Take them back and see what they will do to make it
right.

--
Tekkie

On 08/19/2015 10:49 AM, Bob wrote:
Hello,

Have a pair of eyeglasses that split in the nose (Bridge area).

They are made from one of those "super bendable" alloys like
possibly Beryllium Copper, or Titanium, or...?

Really don't know what it is made of. These are just a guess.

I think I can re-solder them, but want to use the solder type
that offers the best possibility of holding.
Suggestions ?

Epoxy a better bet ?

Any suggestions and thoughts on this would be most appreciated.

I'd second the query/suggestion regarding whether there's any recourse
from the supplier first and the laser-welding second.

I'm guessing if they are one of these light-weight alloys you'll have
essentially zero luck getting even silver solder to stick.

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