Cord for reading glasses
As age sets in I need glasses to look at the monitor and to read.
I have my glasses on a cord around my neck, Granddad style. I getting fed up of the little clips that attach to the arms of my glasses slipping off or snapping. I've bought loads from ebay sellers, all crap. Can anybody recommend a site for heavy duty cords? One that will post them to me. Screwfix are asking for over 6 quid delivered! This is a bit much. |
Cord for reading glasses
On 05/12/2018 13:09, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
As age sets in I need glasses to look at the monitor and to read. I have my glasses on a cord around my neck, Granddad style. I getting fed up of the little clips that attach to the arms of my glasses slipping off or snapping. I've bought loads from ebay sellers, all crap. Can anybody recommend a site for heavy duty cords? One that will post them to me. Screwfix are asking for over 6 quid delivered! This is a bit much. DIY something. Bill |
Cord for reading glasses
Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
As age sets in I need glasses to look at the monitor and to read. I have my glasses on a cord around my neck, Granddad style. I getting fed up of the little clips that attach to the arms of my glasses slipping off or snapping. I've bought loads from ebay sellers, all crap. Can anybody recommend a site for heavy duty cords? One that will post them to me. Screwfix are asking for over 6 quid delivered! This is a bit much. Many RL opticians sell them. The ones with a loop at the end going through a little plastic toggle seem to last a few years, even if one is always catching them on things. -- Roger Hayter |
Cord for reading glasses
Bill Wright wrote:
On 05/12/2018 13:09, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote: As age sets in I need glasses to look at the monitor and to read. I have my glasses on a cord around my neck, Granddad style. I getting fed up of the little clips that attach to the arms of my glasses slipping off or snapping. I've bought loads from ebay sellers, all crap. Can anybody recommend a site for heavy duty cords? One that will post them to me. Screwfix are asking for over 6 quid delivered! This is a bit much. DIY something. Bill That's a thought. I do have some old shoe laces somewhere. |
Cord for reading glasses
On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 13:09:39 UTC, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
As age sets in I need glasses to look at the monitor and to read. I have my glasses on a cord around my neck, Granddad style. I getting fed up of the little clips that attach to the arms of my glasses slipping off or snapping. I've bought loads from ebay sellers, all crap. Can anybody recommend a site for heavy duty cords? One that will post them to me. Screwfix are asking for over 6 quid delivered! This is a bit much. You could try stealing someones security card that's on a lanyard and use that they are pretty strong and some are made of beads :-) .. |
Cord for reading glasses
On Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 1:09:39 PM UTC, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
As age sets in I need glasses to look at the monitor and to read. I have my glasses on a cord around my neck, Granddad style. I getting fed up of the little clips that attach to the arms of my glasses slipping off or snapping. I've bought loads from ebay sellers, all crap. Can anybody recommend a site for heavy duty cords? One that will post them to me. Screwfix are asking for over 6 quid delivered! This is a bit much. Even though I too am starting to get on in years, I am super-sporty and healthy ;-). I use similar 'elasticated sports straps' to keep my glasses staying on, loosely, when I am playing squash racquets. I agree that most of the ones you can buy are poor. Also, they tend to be adjustable, whereas I know exactly the size I want. Given the sweaty environment they are used in, they rust and go to pieces quite often. Even when buying multiples of the best I can find on eBay, I go through them at a rate of knots. So I have a d-i-y plan. This involves (a) buying 8mm black elastic webbing, (b) getting o-rings of a suitable diameter (15--20mm), and (c) using some thin brass wire, a bit like the individual strands of picture hanging wire. I will then: - cut the webbing into lengths previously decided upon - sew a small loop into each end, with one o-ring held within each end - squeeze the o-ring 'flat' and wrap some of the brass wire around it, like a spring almost, so that a small loop of the o-ring pokes out at the 'far' end. This is where you would put the arm of your glasses - put a tiny dab of solder, or maybe epoxy, on the brass wire to hold it together. I've had this plan for a while - I clearly must have a lot of time on my hands (not)... J^n |
Cord for reading glasses
Roger Hayter wrote:
Mr Pounder Esquire wrote: As age sets in I need glasses to look at the monitor and to read. I have my glasses on a cord around my neck, Granddad style. I getting fed up of the little clips that attach to the arms of my glasses slipping off or snapping. I've bought loads from ebay sellers, all crap. Can anybody recommend a site for heavy duty cords? One that will post them to me. Screwfix are asking for over 6 quid delivered! This is a bit much. Many RL opticians sell them. The ones with a loop at the end going through a little plastic toggle seem to last a few years, even if one is always catching them on things. The cords from Specsavers and Asda did not last for very long. I need industrial cords, but can't find any. |
Cord for reading glasses
jkn wrote:
On Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 1:09:39 PM UTC, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote: As age sets in I need glasses to look at the monitor and to read. I have my glasses on a cord around my neck, Granddad style. I getting fed up of the little clips that attach to the arms of my glasses slipping off or snapping. I've bought loads from ebay sellers, all crap. Can anybody recommend a site for heavy duty cords? One that will post them to me. Screwfix are asking for over 6 quid delivered! This is a bit much. Even though I too am starting to get on in years, I am super-sporty and healthy ;-). I use similar 'elasticated sports straps' to keep my glasses staying on, loosely, when I am playing squash racquets. I agree that most of the ones you can buy are poor. Also, they tend to be adjustable, whereas I know exactly the size I want. Given the sweaty environment they are used in, they rust and go to pieces quite often. Even when buying multiples of the best I can find on eBay, I go through them at a rate of knots. So I have a d-i-y plan. This involves (a) buying 8mm black elastic webbing, (b) getting o-rings of a suitable diameter (15--20mm), and (c) using some thin brass wire, a bit like the individual strands of picture hanging wire. I will then: - cut the webbing into lengths previously decided upon - sew a small loop into each end, with one o-ring held within each end - squeeze the o-ring 'flat' and wrap some of the brass wire around it, like a spring almost, so that a small loop of the o-ring pokes out at the 'far' end. This is where you would put the arm of your glasses - put a tiny dab of solder, or maybe epoxy, on the brass wire to hold it together. I've had this plan for a while - I clearly must have a lot of time on my hands (not)... J^n Thanks for your time and effort. All I need is something that will not break and will hold my glasses, not how to diy a Starship :-) |
Cord for reading glasses
Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
jkn wrote: On Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 1:09:39 PM UTC, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote: As age sets in I need glasses to look at the monitor and to read. I have my glasses on a cord around my neck, Granddad style. I getting fed up of the little clips that attach to the arms of my glasses slipping off or snapping. I've bought loads from ebay sellers, all crap. Can anybody recommend a site for heavy duty cords? One that will post them to me. Screwfix are asking for over 6 quid delivered! This is a bit much. Even though I too am starting to get on in years, I am super-sporty and healthy ;-). I use similar 'elasticated sports straps' to keep my glasses staying on, loosely, when I am playing squash racquets. I agree that most of the ones you can buy are poor. Also, they tend to be adjustable, whereas I know exactly the size I want. Given the sweaty environment they are used in, they rust and go to pieces quite often. Even when buying multiples of the best I can find on eBay, I go through them at a rate of knots. So I have a d-i-y plan. This involves (a) buying 8mm black elastic webbing, (b) getting o-rings of a suitable diameter (15--20mm), and (c) using some thin brass wire, a bit like the individual strands of picture hanging wire. I will then: - cut the webbing into lengths previously decided upon - sew a small loop into each end, with one o-ring held within each end - squeeze the o-ring 'flat' and wrap some of the brass wire around it, like a spring almost, so that a small loop of the o-ring pokes out at the 'far' end. This is where you would put the arm of your glasses - put a tiny dab of solder, or maybe epoxy, on the brass wire to hold it together. I've had this plan for a while - I clearly must have a lot of time on my hands (not)... J^n Thanks for your time and effort. All I need is something that will not break and will hold my glasses, not how to diy a Starship :-) Very small fishing line snaps |
Cord for reading glasses
Next time you change your glasses prescription get varifocals or bi-focals and you will not have to keep taking them off.
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Cord for reading glasses
"Tricky Dicky" wrote in message
... Next time you change your glasses prescription get varifocals or bi-focals and you will not have to keep taking them off. I suggest you don't rush into getting varifocals. I was offered them, but I could not get used to them: I found that as I turned my head from left to right, vertical objects swayed from side to side (eg they went from several degrees left of vertical on one side of my field of view, to several degrees right of vertical on the other side): \ on one side of field of vision | in centre of vision / on other side of vision The optician checked her sight test and measurements of my pupil position and eye spacing and gave me another set of glasses which were just as bad, so it wasn't just due to duff measurements. That was for a fairly mild distance and reading glasses, without (as far as I know) any complications like astigmatism. I couldn't have driven in them, even though they allowed me to see road and dashboard in sharp focus at the same time, because as soon as I moved my head or a car went past, the geometric distortion of everything made me dizzy. After the second pair, Specsavers offered me separate single-vision pairs of glasses at no extra cost. They were most intrigued by the symptom that I described because they'd never had anyone report it before with varifocals. I've not tried bifocals. It would be interesting to see what they were like, if it wasn't necessary to commit to having them specially made up and then finding that I couldn't get used to them. |
Cord for reading glasses
NY wrote:
don't rush into getting varifocals. I've gone back to a single vision lenses for distance (and these days an intermediate pair, notionally for computer use). The intermediates are "good enough" for most things around the house except watching TV, the problem is they're good enough to get out to the car before I realise I haven't swapped glasses as soon as I look beyond the bonnet. |
Cord for reading glasses
"Andy Burns" wrote in message
... NY wrote: don't rush into getting varifocals. I've gone back to a single vision lenses for distance (and these days an intermediate pair, notionally for computer use). The intermediates are "good enough" for most things around the house except watching TV, the problem is they're good enough to get out to the car before I realise I haven't swapped glasses as soon as I look beyond the bonnet. When I first got reading glasses, I only needed them for reading a book. I didn't need them (and they made things more blurred) for using a computer at a slightly greater distance. My distance vision is almost OK, but I need very weak lenses to make things just slightly sharper. As my accommodation has got worse over the last year, and my close sight has gradually got worse, I've got into the habit of wearing my reading glasses around the house to save me having to keep getting my reading glasses when I need to read cooking instructions, names on incoming letters etc. And it's got to such a habit that I too have gone out to my car several times, still wearing my reading glasses, and only realised as I've started to reverse that things aren't as sharp as they should be. Get out of car, lock it, unlock house, find glasses, lock house, unlock car - it all takes time! |
Cord for reading glasses
On 05/12/2018 14:00, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
Bill Wright wrote: On 05/12/2018 13:09, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote: As age sets in I need glasses to look at the monitor and to read. I have my glasses on a cord around my neck, Granddad style. I getting fed up of the little clips that attach to the arms of my glasses slipping off or snapping. I've bought loads from ebay sellers, all crap. Can anybody recommend a site for heavy duty cords? One that will post them to me. Screwfix are asking for over 6 quid delivered! This is a bit much. DIY something. Bill That's a thought. I do have some old shoe laces somewhere. What about the 'strings' used to lift/lower venetion blinds ?. This can be bought in a variety of thicknesses. |
Cord for reading glasses
On 05/12/2018 14:03, whisky-dave wrote:
On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 13:09:39 UTC, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote: As age sets in I need glasses to look at the monitor and to read. I have my glasses on a cord around my neck, Granddad style. I getting fed up of the little clips that attach to the arms of my glasses slipping off or snapping. I've bought loads from ebay sellers, all crap. Can anybody recommend a site for heavy duty cords? One that will post them to me. Screwfix are asking for over 6 quid delivered! This is a bit much. You could try stealing someones security card that's on a lanyard and use that they are pretty strong and some are made of beads :-) . Or some fine-stranded electronic hookup cable. |
Cord for reading glasses
"Andy Burns" wrote in message ... NY wrote: don't rush into getting varifocals. I've gone back to a single vision lenses for distance (and these days an intermediate pair, notionally for computer use). The intermediates are "good enough" for most things around the house except watching TV, the problem is they're good enough to get out to the car before I realise I haven't swapped glasses as soon as I look beyond the bonnet. Mine arent that bad, just not good enough for house numbers and I keep the distance pair in the car so easy to change when I need that. The problem is with shelf labels in supermarkets. They are further away than the computer screen and I hardly ever remember to put on the correct single vision glasses before getting out of the car. |
Cord for reading glasses
"NY" wrote in message ... "Andy Burns" wrote in message ... NY wrote: don't rush into getting varifocals. I've gone back to a single vision lenses for distance (and these days an intermediate pair, notionally for computer use). The intermediates are "good enough" for most things around the house except watching TV, the problem is they're good enough to get out to the car before I realise I haven't swapped glasses as soon as I look beyond the bonnet. When I first got reading glasses, I only needed them for reading a book. I didn't need them (and they made things more blurred) for using a computer at a slightly greater distance. My distance vision is almost OK, but I need very weak lenses to make things just slightly sharper. As my accommodation has got worse over the last year, and my close sight has gradually got worse, I've got into the habit of wearing my reading glasses around the house to save me having to keep getting my reading glasses when I need to read cooking instructions, names on incoming letters etc. And it's got to such a habit that I too have gone out to my car several times, still wearing my reading glasses, and only realised as I've started to reverse that things aren't as sharp as they should be. Get out of car, lock it, unlock house, find glasses, lock house, unlock car - it all takes time! The obvious fix is another cheap clone of the distance glasses from china now that you have the prescription and keep them in the car. https://www.zennioptical.com |
Cord for reading glasses
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 14:00:55 -0000, "Mr Pounder Esquire"
wrote: Bill Wright wrote: On 05/12/2018 13:09, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote: As age sets in I need glasses to look at the monitor and to read. I have my glasses on a cord around my neck, Granddad style. I getting fed up of the little clips that attach to the arms of my glasses slipping off or snapping. I've bought loads from ebay sellers, all crap. Can anybody recommend a site for heavy duty cords? One that will post them to me. Screwfix are asking for over 6 quid delivered! This is a bit much. DIY something. Bill That's a thought. I do have some old shoe laces somewhere. I've just been oiling my bathroom light switch. The pull-cord is a woven outer with straight glass-fibre core, so doesn't stretch. How about using such cord, simply knotted to the glasses? Or curtain cord. -- Dave W |
Cord for reading glasses
NY wrote:
"Tricky Dicky" wrote in message ... Next time you change your glasses prescription get varifocals or bi-focals and you will not have to keep taking them off. I suggest you don't rush into getting varifocals. I was offered them, but I could not get used to them: I found that as I turned my head from left to right, vertical objects swayed from side to side (eg they went from several degrees left of vertical on one side of my field of view, to several degrees right of vertical on the other side): \ on one side of field of vision | in centre of vision / on other side of vision The optician checked her sight test and measurements of my pupil position and eye spacing and gave me another set of glasses which were just as bad, so it wasn't just due to duff measurements. That was for a fairly mild distance and reading glasses, without (as far as I know) any complications like astigmatism. I couldn't have driven in them, even though they allowed me to see road and dashboard in sharp focus at the same time, because as soon as I moved my head or a car went past, the geometric distortion of everything made me dizzy. After the second pair, Specsavers offered me separate single-vision pairs of glasses at no extra cost. They were most intrigued by the symptom that I described because they'd never had anyone report it before with varifocals. snip I honestly think they were being economical with the truth there, many people have similar problems - I certainly did! Walking gave me vertigo and nausea. -- Roger Hayter |
Cord for reading glasses
"Roger Hayter" wrote in message ... NY wrote: "Tricky Dicky" wrote in message ... Next time you change your glasses prescription get varifocals or bi-focals and you will not have to keep taking them off. I suggest you don't rush into getting varifocals. I was offered them, but I could not get used to them: I found that as I turned my head from left to right, vertical objects swayed from side to side (eg they went from several degrees left of vertical on one side of my field of view, to several degrees right of vertical on the other side): \ on one side of field of vision | in centre of vision / on other side of vision The optician checked her sight test and measurements of my pupil position and eye spacing and gave me another set of glasses which were just as bad, so it wasn't just due to duff measurements. That was for a fairly mild distance and reading glasses, without (as far as I know) any complications like astigmatism. I couldn't have driven in them, even though they allowed me to see road and dashboard in sharp focus at the same time, because as soon as I moved my head or a car went past, the geometric distortion of everything made me dizzy. After the second pair, Specsavers offered me separate single-vision pairs of glasses at no extra cost. They were most intrigued by the symptom that I described because they'd never had anyone report it before with varifocals. I honestly think they were being economical with the truth there, many people have similar problems - I certainly did! Walking gave me vertigo and nausea. Interesting. Just on the verge of considering them myself. Up till now I have used single focus exclusively, but particularly when out shopping, and to a lesser extent when driving, I really do need some form of bifocal or varifocal particularly where its not convenient to swap single focals. What did you end up doing instead, multiple single focals or bifocals. Big advantage of single focals is that they are very cheap from china. And both varifocals and bifocals arent that easy to do by mail order because its not trivial to work out where you want the change vertically and not cheap even from china to just try some alternatives and use the ones that work best. Tho I spose now that its become clear that I will never spend my vast accumulated wealth now before I cark it that I really should just pay the local bricks and mortar place to get it right eventually by trial and error at their cost with the trials and just pay their stupid price for the one that works best. The other complication in my case is that the last time I got an eye check done, they announced that I would need cataract surgery soon in one eye and it doesn’t make a lot of sense to spend a lot for a short time of use. They were very keen to monster me into paying for surgery now even tho I have no symptoms, likely they do get a commission on that here. The GP is convinced that its all a giant scam that’s been going on for decades now and that’s the reason I don’t plan to do it until I have some visible downsides. |
Cord for reading glasses
On 05/12/2018 13:09, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
As age sets in I need glasses to look at the monitor and to read. I have my glasses on a cord around my neck, Granddad style. I getting fed up of the little clips that attach to the arms of my glasses slipping off or snapping. I've bought loads from ebay sellers, all crap. Can anybody recommend a site for heavy duty cords? One that will post them to me. Screwfix are asking for over 6 quid delivered! This is a bit much. I just have the cord held in place by a bit of PVC electrical insulation tape on my workshop reading glasses. Mike |
Cord for reading glasses
Rod Speed wrote:
"Roger Hayter" wrote in message ... NY wrote: "Tricky Dicky" wrote in message ... Next time you change your glasses prescription get varifocals or bi-focals and you will not have to keep taking them off. I suggest you don't rush into getting varifocals. I was offered them, but I could not get used to them: I found that as I turned my head from left to right, vertical objects swayed from side to side (eg they went from several degrees left of vertical on one side of my field of view, to several degrees right of vertical on the other side): \ on one side of field of vision | in centre of vision / on other side of vision The optician checked her sight test and measurements of my pupil position and eye spacing and gave me another set of glasses which were just as bad, so it wasn't just due to duff measurements. That was for a fairly mild distance and reading glasses, without (as far as I know) any complications like astigmatism. I couldn't have driven in them, even though they allowed me to see road and dashboard in sharp focus at the same time, because as soon as I moved my head or a car went past, the geometric distortion of everything made me dizzy. After the second pair, Specsavers offered me separate single-vision pairs of glasses at no extra cost. They were most intrigued by the symptom that I described because they'd never had anyone report it before with varifocals. I honestly think they were being economical with the truth there, many people have similar problems - I certainly did!* Walking gave me vertigo and nausea. Interesting. Just on the verge of considering them myself. Up till now I have used single focus exclusively, but particularly when out shopping, and to a lesser extent when driving, I* really do need some form of bifocal or varifocal particularly where its not convenient to swap single focals. What did you end up doing instead, multiple single focals or bifocals. Big advantage of single focals is that they are very cheap from china. And both varifocals and bifocals arent that easy to do by mail order because its not trivial to work out where you want the change vertically and not cheap even from china to just try some alternatives and use the ones that work best. Tho I spose now that its become clear that I will never spend my vast accumulated wealth now before I cark it that I really should just pay the local bricks and mortar place to get it right eventually by trial and error at their cost with the trials and just pay their stupid price for the one that works best. The other complication in my case is that the last time I got an eye check done, they announced that I would need cataract surgery soon in one eye and it doesn’t make a lot of sense to spend a lot for a short time of use. They were very keen to monster me into paying for surgery now even tho I have no symptoms, likely they do get a commission on that here. The GP is convinced that its all a giant scam that’s been going on for decades now and that’s the reason I don’t plan to do it until I have some visible downsides. If you want to experiment, go ahead but I went cross eyed trying to use varifocals ( may be they boo booed) but in the end they made me bifocals (Mail order) I just had cataract surgery on medicare (was needed) and went with bifocals again |
Cord for reading glasses
"FMurtz" wrote in message ... Rod Speed wrote: "Roger Hayter" wrote in message ... NY wrote: "Tricky Dicky" wrote in message ... Next time you change your glasses prescription get varifocals or bi-focals and you will not have to keep taking them off. I suggest you don't rush into getting varifocals. I was offered them, but I could not get used to them: I found that as I turned my head from left to right, vertical objects swayed from side to side (eg they went from several degrees left of vertical on one side of my field of view, to several degrees right of vertical on the other side): \ on one side of field of vision | in centre of vision / on other side of vision The optician checked her sight test and measurements of my pupil position and eye spacing and gave me another set of glasses which were just as bad, so it wasn't just due to duff measurements. That was for a fairly mild distance and reading glasses, without (as far as I know) any complications like astigmatism. I couldn't have driven in them, even though they allowed me to see road and dashboard in sharp focus at the same time, because as soon as I moved my head or a car went past, the geometric distortion of everything made me dizzy. After the second pair, Specsavers offered me separate single-vision pairs of glasses at no extra cost. They were most intrigued by the symptom that I described because they'd never had anyone report it before with varifocals. I honestly think they were being economical with the truth there, many people have similar problems - I certainly did! Walking gave me vertigo and nausea. Interesting. Just on the verge of considering them myself. Up till now I have used single focus exclusively, but particularly when out shopping, and to a lesser extent when driving, I really do need some form of bifocal or varifocal particularly where its not convenient to swap single focals. What did you end up doing instead, multiple single focals or bifocals. Big advantage of single focals is that they are very cheap from china. And both varifocals and bifocals arent that easy to do by mail order because its not trivial to work out where you want the change vertically and not cheap even from china to just try some alternatives and use the ones that work best. Tho I spose now that its become clear that I will never spend my vast accumulated wealth now before I cark it that I really should just pay the local bricks and mortar place to get it right eventually by trial and error at their cost with the trials and just pay their stupid price for the one that works best. The other complication in my case is that the last time I got an eye check done, they announced that I would need cataract surgery soon in one eye and it doesn’t make a lot of sense to spend a lot for a short time of use. They were very keen to monster me into paying for surgery now even tho I have no symptoms, likely they do get a commission on that here. The GP is convinced that its all a giant scam that’s been going on for decades now and that’s the reason I don’t plan to do it until I have some visible downsides. If you want to experiment, go ahead but I went cross eyed trying to use varifocals ( may be they boo booed) Yeah, not cheap to try even with the chinese, but then again, I'm never gunna spend all I have so that’s a bit academic. but in the end they made me bifocals (Mail order) I just had cataract surgery on medicare (was needed) Did they do them one at a time and how long between when you got in the queue and when they both were done ? Again, no big deal to pay for them myself. and went with bifocals again Interesting. Some others I know don’t need bifocals after the surgery. |
Cord for reading glasses
Muddymike wrote:
On 05/12/2018 13:09, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote: As age sets in I need glasses to look at the monitor and to read. I have my glasses on a cord around my neck, Granddad style. I getting fed up of the little clips that attach to the arms of my glasses slipping off or snapping. I've bought loads from ebay sellers, all crap. Can anybody recommend a site for heavy duty cords? One that will post them to me. Screwfix are asking for over 6 quid delivered! This is a bit much. I just have the cord held in place by a bit of PVC electrical insulation tape on my workshop reading glasses. Mike Yes. I have thought of that and have just brought my Pound Shop pack of insulation tape into the house from the garage. It has only been in there for the past four years. |
Cord for reading glasses
Rod Speed wrote:
The other complication in my case is that the last time I got an eye check done, they announced that I would need cataract surgery soon in one eye and it doesn't make a lot of sense to spend a lot for a short time of use. They were very keen to monster me into paying for surgery now even tho I have no symptoms, likely they do get a commission on that here. The GP is convinced that its all a giant scam that's been going on for decades now and that's the reason I don't plan to do it until I have some visible downsides. One of the first symptoms of cataract is trouble with night vision, have you checked whether you get trouble with that, blurring, lights affecting the rest of the visual field etc? -- Roger Hayter |
Cord for reading glasses
In message , Mr Pounder Esquire
writes Muddymike wrote: On 05/12/2018 13:09, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote: As age sets in I need glasses to look at the monitor and to read. I have my glasses on a cord around my neck, Granddad style. I getting fed up of the little clips that attach to the arms of my glasses slipping off or snapping. I've bought loads from ebay sellers, all crap. Can anybody recommend a site for heavy duty cords? One that will post them to me. Screwfix are asking for over 6 quid delivered! This is a bit much. I just have the cord held in place by a bit of PVC electrical insulation tape on my workshop reading glasses. Mike Yes. I have thought of that and have just brought my Pound Shop pack of insulation tape into the house from the garage. It has only been in there for the past four years. My *reading* glasses hang round my neck on the cord supplied by Specsavers. The cord itself is fine but the plastic loop fitted over the frames stretches. The first move is to shorten the loop by doubling. This normally outlasts the prescription but can be reinforced by a few turns of fusewi-) -- Tim Lamb |
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"Rod Speed" wrote in message
... Interesting. Some others I know don’t need bifocals after the surgery. I've never understood how some people can manage without bifocals. As I understand it, the replacement lens is fixed focus, so you're going to need glasses either for distance or for reading. Unless when they do both eyes, they set one for reading and the other for distance, but that would take a lot of brain-training for the brain to learn to disregard the image from whichever eye was out of focus. |
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On 05/12/2018 19:15, Rod Speed wrote:
snip The obvious fix is another cheap clone of the distance glasses from china now that you have the prescription and keep them in the car. https://www.zennioptical.com I've used www.directsight.co.uk and they often have glasses for £10 (£15 including delivery) if you go for cheapest frames and don't have lens coatings. They're perfectly fine, I wear them all the time at work, usually use contact lenses when I'm out. Cheers -- Clive |
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On 06/12/2018 11:41, NY wrote:
"Rod Speed" wrote in message ... Interesting. Some others I know dont need bifocals after the surgery. I've never understood how some people can manage without bifocals. well different glasses for different jobs or varifocals. As I understand it, the replacement lens is fixed focus, so you're going to need glasses either for distance or for reading. Unless when they do both eyes, they set one for reading and the other for distance, but that would take a lot of brain-training for the brain to learn to disregard the image from whichever eye was out of focus. My frind who had replacement lenses opted for "looking at computer: No glasses!" since most of his waking life is that... He then has driving glasses. -- The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. Karl Marx |
Cord for reading glasses
Tim Lamb wrote:
In message , Mr Pounder Esquire writes Muddymike wrote: On 05/12/2018 13:09, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote: As age sets in I need glasses to look at the monitor and to read. I have my glasses on a cord around my neck, Granddad style. I getting fed up of the little clips that attach to the arms of my glasses slipping off or snapping. I've bought loads from ebay sellers, all crap. Can anybody recommend a site for heavy duty cords? One that will post them to me. Screwfix are asking for over 6 quid delivered! This is a bit much. I just have the cord held in place by a bit of PVC electrical insulation tape on my workshop reading glasses. Mike Yes. I have thought of that and have just brought my Pound Shop pack of insulation tape into the house from the garage. It has only been in there for the past four years. My *reading* glasses hang round my neck on the cord supplied by Specsavers. The cord itself is fine but the plastic loop fitted over the frames stretches. The first move is to shorten the loop by doubling. This normally outlasts the prescription but can be reinforced by a few turns of fusewi-) Can't see how I can shorten the loop by doubling it. Fuse wire could be a good idea as could the insulation tape. It really should not be this difficult. |
Cord for reading glasses
In message , Mr Pounder Esquire
writes Tim Lamb wrote: In message , Mr Pounder Esquire writes Muddymike wrote: On 05/12/2018 13:09, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote: As age sets in I need glasses to look at the monitor and to read. I have my glasses on a cord around my neck, Granddad style. I getting fed up of the little clips that attach to the arms of my glasses slipping off or snapping. I've bought loads from ebay sellers, all crap. Can anybody recommend a site for heavy duty cords? One that will post them to me. Screwfix are asking for over 6 quid delivered! This is a bit much. I just have the cord held in place by a bit of PVC electrical insulation tape on my workshop reading glasses. Mike Yes. I have thought of that and have just brought my Pound Shop pack of insulation tape into the house from the garage. It has only been in there for the past four years. My *reading* glasses hang round my neck on the cord supplied by Specsavers. The cord itself is fine but the plastic loop fitted over the frames stretches. The first move is to shorten the loop by doubling. This normally outlasts the prescription but can be reinforced by a few turns of fusewi-) Can't see how I can shorten the loop by doubling it. Fuse wire could be a good idea as could the insulation tape. It really should not be this difficult. er.. Two turns of loop round the frames. -- Tim Lamb |
Cord for reading glasses
Tim Lamb wrote:
In message , Mr Pounder Esquire writes Tim Lamb wrote: In message , Mr Pounder Esquire writes Muddymike wrote: On 05/12/2018 13:09, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote: As age sets in I need glasses to look at the monitor and to read. I have my glasses on a cord around my neck, Granddad style. I getting fed up of the little clips that attach to the arms of my glasses slipping off or snapping. I've bought loads from ebay sellers, all crap. Can anybody recommend a site for heavy duty cords? One that will post them to me. Screwfix are asking for over 6 quid delivered! This is a bit much. I just have the cord held in place by a bit of PVC electrical insulation tape on my workshop reading glasses. Mike Yes. I have thought of that and have just brought my Pound Shop pack of insulation tape into the house from the garage. It has only been in there for the past four years. My *reading* glasses hang round my neck on the cord supplied by Specsavers. The cord itself is fine but the plastic loop fitted over the frames stretches. The first move is to shorten the loop by doubling. This normally outlasts the prescription but can be reinforced by a few turns of fusewi-) Can't see how I can shorten the loop by doubling it. Fuse wire could be a good idea as could the insulation tape. It really should not be this difficult. er.. Two turns of loop round the frames. er .. I may just try this. |
Cord for reading glasses
Roger Hayter wrote
Rod Speed wrote The other complication in my case is that the last time I got an eye check done, they announced that I would need cataract surgery soon in one eye and it doesn't make a lot of sense to spend a lot for a short time of use. They were very keen to monster me into paying for surgery now even tho I have no symptoms, likely they do get a commission on that here. The GP is convinced that its all a giant scam that's been going on for decades now and that's the reason I don't plan to do it until I have some visible downsides. One of the first symptoms of cataract is trouble with night vision, have you checked whether you get trouble with that, blurring, lights affecting the rest of the visual field etc? Don’t have any problem in that area and I do mostly do the long distance trips at night for various reasons. The only effect I do get is with the large signs that have some waffle on them like report all traffic incidents to a phone number on the sign, at night come into focus for a much shorter time than they do in the day time. I assume that’s just because the iris is a lot more dilated at night due to the light level and so the focus depth is much less at night. I have noticed another odd effect where I find it feels better with the sun visor down even when facing away from the sun in the car. Not clear if that’s a recent thing or I have only noticed it recently. But its not a pronounced enough effect that I always drive everywhere with the sun visor down. |
Cord for reading glasses
NY wrote
Rod Speed wrote Interesting. Some others I know don’t need bifocals after the [cataract] surgery. I've never understood how some people can manage without bifocals. Cant see why it should be a problem. As I understand it, the replacement lens is fixed focus, Yes. so you're going to need glasses either for distance or for reading. Yes. So the obvious thing to do is have the fixed focus what is needed for distance and use single focals for reading. Unless when they do both eyes, they set one for reading and the other for distance, but that would take a lot of brain-training for the brain to learn to disregard the image from whichever eye was out of focus. Sure. |
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