[Noisebridge-discuss] Repairing broken glasses

[Joshua Juran]

On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Peter Werner <germpore at sonic.net> wrote:
> I managed to finally snap my old pair of glasses where the bridge
> meets the frames. I have read on eHow that one can repair something
> like this with a hot glue gun, and was wondering if Noisebridge had
> something like this and somebody who could show me how to do this.
>
> To be blunt, it's kind of an emergency thing, since I am jobless and
> quite broke at present, down to a pair of glasses with a prescription
> years out of date (but can still see well enough through them), and
> cannot afford to simply go down to Lenscrafters or the like for new
> prescription and frames. I'm hoping that there's an alternative to
> going around with glasses that are roughly taped together for months
> on end, something that isn't going to make my job-hunting prospects
> any easier.

When the temple of my glasses broke, I molded a splint out of
polycaprolactone (aka ShapeLock).  If you'd like to go that route, I
can give you some unused PCL beads.

Josh