I could’ve sworn I went over the fix, but hey it’s been a long time since I recorded this one 😂. Some frames there’s nothing you can do. Once they’ve hit that point you’re just trying to band aid the warp to make it wearable. Some frames it can be bent back into place without severe manipulation and hold it. Ideally you’ll make the adjustments where the front corners are to bow the temples back inwards. For acetate that means heating and bracing it against a table top to put pressure on the front corner while it cools. For nylon, no dice. For injected plastic, you’re just trying to make it wearable again, it won’t hold long these best just to heat up the bridge and put your thumb behind it and palms on the lens fronts to bow it back like wrapped sport glasses. Again it will be VERY temporary. A week tops. Metal will be the same concept but no heat needed. Be careful of solder joints and where you apply pressure. Or of course, take it to a professional :)
If your temples are too narrow, you bend the part near the frame out on both sides. If they are too wide, you bend the part near the frame in on both sides. If you do one side, you have to do the other to balance the frame.
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I've worn the same glasses daily for 7 years and they never stretched negatively. Metal wire with acetate arms. Update: I got caught at 6:55 - one arm is bowed out. However that fits my head shape better, so I don't need to fix it
So close 😂. But yes that’s the beauty of a goood acetate frame, it can sort of find its own adjustment to some degree 😎. I pretty much only wear acetate myself. I’ve got a couple titaniums for specific purposes but it’s a very very small part of my collection.
I actually have the opposite problem. I found a pair of smith sunglasses (ventures), and bought them, and I love them, but they're just a HAIR too narrow and putting some pressure behind my ears. But I'll wear em for a while and they'll probably stretch a bit. I wish they made the frames in a wider model though.
@@ThatGlassesGuy03 oh, right on! I actually found out that mine had "quick fit" arms and they're mildly malleable without heating. Between fiddling with that, and wearing them in, they fit well now!
Perfect!! Especially with acetates sometimes all you really need is a little time and one more adjustment. I always tell my customers to come back in a few weeks so we can dial in the fit after wear :). Except for titanium frames. They either fit or they don’t. 😂
My frames were okay before I had new cheap thick lenses put in. I just wanted to make sure if I understand correctly that nothing can be done because of thick lenses pushing out the sides of the frame?
Hard to say but if the lenses are oversized and creating the problem, aside from having the lenses cut differently to accommodate for this not much else can be done.
Most metals fatigue with repeated bending, including flex metals. This is actually the problem inherent in spring hinges, they're designed to fail as the spring will only work for so many cycles 🙂. Of course most glasses aren't going to be adjusted so much its an issue, far less cycles than spring hinges ever see to be sure
I feel like you never got to the answer part. I’m sure you know that we all came here to learn how to FIX the issue. Ten minutes on why not buy cheap frames and no time spent on how to fix them.
Definitely addressed it, and what parts of the frame to bend, when to make the bends at different areas etc. cheap materials were only referenced because it affects how long the adjustment will hold and where the bend needs made.
Definitely didn’t. You write like we didn’t watch the video. It’s shamey nonsense for people who can’t afford $200 frames. You nerd out about acetate quality for 10 minutes and then shame people with metal frames who take their glasses off with one hand. This is a video for glasses nerds only. You will obviously disagree, but I am here to tell you,as someone who came to this video for help, it was not helpful. You were not helpful.
You act like you’re getting a canned robot response from someone that didn’t record the video…. Sorry you have an axe to grind. @2:55 key areas to check @3:40 where to bend , @4:11 abusing my frame to show what you don’t want For more about how to adjust plastic frames yourself at home, jump to this video: ruclips.net/video/6yGOuOGUJGI/видео.html Just here to help bud. Good luck!
Thanks for putting out this video! I have a glasses stretching conundrum! I have a pair of Warby Parker acetate frames that had very tight (read: unwearable) temples out of the box, even though the width was correct for my face. Now that my lenses are in the frame (high rx -10 here, YAY), I'm finding I have to take them to my optician pretty much every 2 weeks to get them tightened. This is with normal/careful wear, so I take them off with two hands, I don't wear them to bed/laying down, etc. Is that amount of adjusting normal, in your opinion? I know you said Zenni's need a lot of adjusting and while theses aren't as cheap as Zenni's, they're still not expensive. Anyway, I emailed WP about the stretching and they said it wasn't normal for them to stretch that much and they sent me a new frame. This new pair (of the same frame/frame size) was *not* tight out of the box. I'm questioning switching my lenses over to this new pair because they may have the same stretching pattern, even though they weren't tight out of the box. I'm just...stuck.
Unfortunately, lower grade acetates without bridge and temple area reinforcement will ALWAYS have this problem. The -10 lenses exacerbate the problem as most auto bevels will not have enough curvature to help the frame properly maintain shape and flatten it out even worse. Zennis are definitely worse in this area, but I wouldn't say warby is significantly better. I hate to say it but it's not really even restricted to brands known for being cheap. I've seen several frames in the $300 area today that are guilty of this problem. 😵💫
@@ThatGlassesGuy03 Thank you so much for your reply! But also, gah-it seems like there’s no good answer, not even more expensive frames. Sigh. 🙁 I guess my optometrist and I are destined to be besties.
@@HopeDeee 😂 well, more expensive will help for sure, BUT significantly more 😂. I find in the market today that problem goes away once you're in the.. deep breath.. $600+ frame territory. It used to be possible in the 300-400 range, but that largely vanished around 2019 sans a few specific independent collections.
@@ThatGlassesGuy03 oof, yeah, that is a lot, but I’d be willing to pay it if I could find the right frames that didn’t stretch out every two weeks. Not to mention, this WP pair was the first I’d stumbled upon on that worked for my teeny PD (53 😭), narrow face, and high Rx. Do you have any brand recommendations you’d be willing to share that would do less stretching? I’d definitely like to look into them.
Laubach & York as well as Blake Kuwahara. They're both king in this area of petite fit, high power, and holding their shape. I'll go a step further and say look specifically at the blake kuwahara curlett or blore (i have a -15 client in the blore, havent had to touch the adjustment, and hes had it about 8 months and generally his young son messes up adjustments quickly 😂). 😎 for laibach & York the coppenhagen.
Great stuff! What to do when the glasses have a hinge that is meant to hyper extend with a spring to prevent breaking? This mechanism causes the glasses to be way too loose, and no amount of adjustment works. Can I replace the hinges, or the entire temple pieces that have a different hinge? Putting something between the gap looks very ugly, and difficult to do, as it would have to be an extremely small shim, and extremely hard like metal, with no compliance to prevent springiness. My guess, is to just get a new temple price with a different hinge in it? Can you buy those as a separate part somewhere?
Hey! Great question. Weak springs in hinges can be unbelievably problematic, and have a lot to do with my hate of flex frames and spring hinges in general. Usually the hinges can't be swapped out that easily and it's just better to be more conscious of this choosing your next pair 🙂. Particularly as spring hinges age the tension weakens for most and you wind up in that situation at best or worst the spring snaps and is now unusable.
I accidentally fell asleep in my plastic glasses and now it's too much over 90 degrees angle on right side. It's like over extended and they won't stay on my face at all. Only had them 2 months. So they can fix this? Thanks for the video!
Eliminated all the fake solutions and told you exactly what you need to do. As well as things to look for in your next pair to avoid it. But hey. Continue.
@@ThatGlassesGuy03 Actually show us what your Headline says, How to fix not what to look for. I'm not the only person to comment that you showed us nothing. Do you even watch your own vids and think to yourself.......
I do actually ;) and discussed exactly what you can do about it. Making the bends on video isn’t going to help and if anything risks breakage for no reason. To learn the nuance of how to actually make that adjustment hop on over here, the same principles actually at play. ruclips.net/video/6yGOuOGUJGI/видео.htmlsi=HZgjviMZSF07Ezpo But for the feedback I appreciate it and maybe a proper merger of these is in order soon 😎 🥂
So how do we fix it? You just explained what causes it.
I could’ve sworn I went over the fix, but hey it’s been a long time since I recorded this one 😂. Some frames there’s nothing you can do. Once they’ve hit that point you’re just trying to band aid the warp to make it wearable. Some frames it can be bent back into place without severe manipulation and hold it. Ideally you’ll make the adjustments where the front corners are to bow the temples back inwards. For acetate that means heating and bracing it against a table top to put pressure on the front corner while it cools. For nylon, no dice. For injected plastic, you’re just trying to make it wearable again, it won’t hold long these best just to heat up the bridge and put your thumb behind it and palms on the lens fronts to bow it back like wrapped sport glasses. Again it will be VERY temporary. A week tops. Metal will be the same concept but no heat needed. Be careful of solder joints and where you apply pressure. Or of course, take it to a professional :)
If your temples are too narrow, you bend the part near the frame out on both sides. If they are too wide, you bend the part near the frame in on both sides. If you do one side, you have to do the other to balance the frame.
I agree he just talked and talked with no suggestions as to how to fix
Thanks, saved me wasting my time watching this pointless video 👍
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I've worn the same glasses daily for 7 years and they never stretched negatively. Metal wire with acetate arms.
Update: I got caught at 6:55 - one arm is bowed out. However that fits my head shape better, so I don't need to fix it
So close 😂. But yes that’s the beauty of a goood acetate frame, it can sort of find its own adjustment to some degree 😎. I pretty much only wear acetate myself. I’ve got a couple titaniums for specific purposes but it’s a very very small part of my collection.
I actually have the opposite problem. I found a pair of smith sunglasses (ventures), and bought them, and I love them, but they're just a HAIR too narrow and putting some pressure behind my ears. But I'll wear em for a while and they'll probably stretch a bit. I wish they made the frames in a wider model though.
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@@ThatGlassesGuy03 oh, right on! I actually found out that mine had "quick fit" arms and they're mildly malleable without heating. Between fiddling with that, and wearing them in, they fit well now!
Perfect!! Especially with acetates sometimes all you really need is a little time and one more adjustment. I always tell my customers to come back in a few weeks so we can dial in the fit after wear :). Except for titanium frames. They either fit or they don’t. 😂
@@ThatGlassesGuy03 salt of the earth type of channel you have, sir, have a wonderful evening!
Thanks for your videos. Stretching the bridge helped make my glasses less tight. Is it ok to to have the bridge full flat on metal glasses?
It’s not ideal, but it’s ok.
@@ThatGlassesGuy03 I’m just a little worried it might affect my vision at all overtime.
@nolashtheartist definitely wouldn’t worry about that. Not enough to affect power or create prismatic issues unless your north of 10Diopters of power
My frames were okay before I had new cheap thick lenses put in. I just wanted to make sure if I understand correctly that nothing can be done because of thick lenses pushing out the sides of the frame?
Hard to say but if the lenses are oversized and creating the problem, aside from having the lenses cut differently to accommodate for this not much else can be done.
Thanks for the video. Does bending cheap metal frames over time makes it more prone to breaking or will they just become more malleable?
Most metals fatigue with repeated bending, including flex metals. This is actually the problem inherent in spring hinges, they're designed to fail as the spring will only work for so many cycles 🙂. Of course most glasses aren't going to be adjusted so much its an issue, far less cycles than spring hinges ever see to be sure
Bro just give straight answers stop beating around the bush
"Straight answers" end up being half answers at best. Every one move affects 3 others.
I feel like you never got to the answer part. I’m sure you know that we all came here to learn how to FIX the issue.
Ten minutes on why not buy cheap frames and no time spent on how to fix them.
Definitely addressed it, and what parts of the frame to bend, when to make the bends at different areas etc. cheap materials were only referenced because it affects how long the adjustment will hold and where the bend needs made.
Definitely didn’t.
You write like we didn’t watch the video.
It’s shamey nonsense for people who can’t afford $200 frames. You nerd out about acetate quality for 10 minutes and then shame people with metal frames who take their glasses off with one hand.
This is a video for glasses nerds only.
You will obviously disagree, but I am here to tell you,as someone who came to this video for help, it was not helpful. You were not helpful.
You act like you’re getting a canned robot response from someone that didn’t record the video…. Sorry you have an axe to grind.
@2:55 key areas to check @3:40 where to bend , @4:11 abusing my frame to show what you don’t want
For more about how to adjust plastic frames yourself at home, jump to this video:
ruclips.net/video/6yGOuOGUJGI/видео.html
Just here to help bud. Good luck!
I love your glasses!!!! Looks amazing! Merry Christmas!
Thanks! Merry Christmas to you too! 🥂
Thanks for putting out this video! I have a glasses stretching conundrum! I have a pair of Warby Parker acetate frames that had very tight (read: unwearable) temples out of the box, even though the width was correct for my face. Now that my lenses are in the frame (high rx -10 here, YAY), I'm finding I have to take them to my optician pretty much every 2 weeks to get them tightened. This is with normal/careful wear, so I take them off with two hands, I don't wear them to bed/laying down, etc. Is that amount of adjusting normal, in your opinion? I know you said Zenni's need a lot of adjusting and while theses aren't as cheap as Zenni's, they're still not expensive.
Anyway, I emailed WP about the stretching and they said it wasn't normal for them to stretch that much and they sent me a new frame. This new pair (of the same frame/frame size) was *not* tight out of the box. I'm questioning switching my lenses over to this new pair because they may have the same stretching pattern, even though they weren't tight out of the box. I'm just...stuck.
Unfortunately, lower grade acetates without bridge and temple area reinforcement will ALWAYS have this problem. The -10 lenses exacerbate the problem as most auto bevels will not have enough curvature to help the frame properly maintain shape and flatten it out even worse. Zennis are definitely worse in this area, but I wouldn't say warby is significantly better. I hate to say it but it's not really even restricted to brands known for being cheap. I've seen several frames in the $300 area today that are guilty of this problem. 😵💫
@@ThatGlassesGuy03 Thank you so much for your reply! But also, gah-it seems like there’s no good answer, not even more expensive frames. Sigh. 🙁 I guess my optometrist and I are destined to be besties.
@@HopeDeee 😂 well, more expensive will help for sure, BUT significantly more 😂. I find in the market today that problem goes away once you're in the.. deep breath.. $600+ frame territory. It used to be possible in the 300-400 range, but that largely vanished around 2019 sans a few specific independent collections.
@@ThatGlassesGuy03 oof, yeah, that is a lot, but I’d be willing to pay it if I could find the right frames that didn’t stretch out every two weeks.
Not to mention, this WP pair was the first I’d stumbled upon on that worked for my teeny PD (53 😭), narrow face, and high Rx. Do you have any brand recommendations you’d be willing to share that would do less stretching? I’d definitely like to look into them.
Laubach & York as well as Blake Kuwahara. They're both king in this area of petite fit, high power, and holding their shape. I'll go a step further and say look specifically at the blake kuwahara curlett or blore (i have a -15 client in the blore, havent had to touch the adjustment, and hes had it about 8 months and generally his young son messes up adjustments quickly 😂). 😎 for laibach & York the coppenhagen.
Great stuff! What to do when the glasses have a hinge that is meant to hyper extend with a spring to prevent breaking? This mechanism causes the glasses to be way too loose, and no amount of adjustment works. Can I replace the hinges, or the entire temple pieces that have a different hinge? Putting something between the gap looks very ugly, and difficult to do, as it would have to be an extremely small shim, and extremely hard like metal, with no compliance to prevent springiness. My guess, is to just get a new temple price with a different hinge in it? Can you buy those as a separate part somewhere?
Hey! Great question. Weak springs in hinges can be unbelievably problematic, and have a lot to do with my hate of flex frames and spring hinges in general. Usually the hinges can't be swapped out that easily and it's just better to be more conscious of this choosing your next pair 🙂. Particularly as spring hinges age the tension weakens for most and you wind up in that situation at best or worst the spring snaps and is now unusable.
@@ThatGlassesGuy03 yea but how do you fix that if you get cuaght cause like i need to fix it or do i go to the store and spend monney to fix it
A spring hinge break is not end user repairable. Heck it’s not repairable by the average optician for that matter.
Nice glasses.
half video in and still rambling.. smh
Ohhhh goldfish attention span version: get new glasses or have them adjusted and fitted by a pro.
All my favorite pairs of frames I can’t get anywhere else are too fucking small cuz my big ass head 😔 …
Got a trick for that too!!!
Oh No! Glasses Indent Side Of My Head?! How to Stop Indentions From Glasses!
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@@ThatGlassesGuy03 Ty!
I accidentally fell asleep in my plastic glasses and now it's too much over 90 degrees angle on right side. It's like over extended and they won't stay on my face at all. Only had them 2 months. So they can fix this? Thanks for the video!
Oh no, sorry to hear that! I've gotten a bit behind on comments, but yes typically this can be fixed! :)
Just talk and talk and no worthwhile fixes
Sounds like you want the TikTok version rather than learning how to do it right. Heat up the bridge. Mold it to increase wrap. Good luck.
Thank you, I was noticing this after 2 minutes in. Saved me 6 more minutes of my life. This guy sucks ass.
Too much talking and not getting to the point . 🤦🏽♂️
Some things take a little more finesse. But by all means, find a quick fix and ruin your glasses.
Growing out of your glasses
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Zero solutions in this video. Jesus wept
Eliminated all the fake solutions and told you exactly what you need to do. As well as things to look for in your next pair to avoid it. But hey. Continue.
COMPLETE FAIL OF A VIDEO
How to fix. What to look for in your next pair so it’s not a problem. Do tell, how would you prefer it done? This one is well overdue for an update 😎
@@ThatGlassesGuy03 Actually show us what your Headline says, How to fix not what to look for. I'm not the only person to comment that you showed us nothing. Do you even watch your own vids and think to yourself.......
I do actually ;) and discussed exactly what you can do about it. Making the bends on video isn’t going to help and if anything risks breakage for no reason. To learn the nuance of how to actually make that adjustment hop on over here, the same principles actually at play. ruclips.net/video/6yGOuOGUJGI/видео.htmlsi=HZgjviMZSF07Ezpo
But for the feedback I appreciate it and maybe a proper merger of these is in order soon 😎 🥂
yup I agree, i watched the whole video in 2x speed thinking he'd actually show us WHAT to do but he never did
Luckily I no longer wear metal glasses, instead I now wear plastic glasses!
The photo is a lie. 😂
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