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I can't get my specs clean

I've tried the washing up liquid - still the same. It's like they a coating of something on the lenses - either the original coating come off, or something gone on there and kind of stuck. :confused:

I think I will ask the optician to look at them but I suspect I will have to get new ones. They must be at least 5 years old as butchers says I had them when we met.
 
I've only just got mine and I'm so petrified of breaking them that I had a nightmare that it happened the other night, I was so upset.

It's cos I break things, in general. I have to be careful.
 
Geri said:
I'll try both and see how I get on. I think really I need to get new ones, but I don't want to be forking out £250 right now.

What's an e-cloth?
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I just had my eyes tested, and my prescription is probably one of the most complicated ones there can be. Cost me a small fortune :( (the frames were relatively cheap, the lenses weren't)

Geri said:
I've tried the washing up liquid - still the same. It's like they a coating of something on the lenses - either the original coating come off, or something gone on there and kind of stuck. :confused:

I think I will ask the optician to look at them but I suspect I will have to get new ones. They must be at least 5 years old as butchers says I had them when we met.
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ah, the coating on one of my lenses has come off too (hence me getting eyes/tested and new lenses).

If that's the case go and see the opticians, the lens will probably need to be replaced...
 
electrogirl said:
What makes it so complicated then? For you and Geri.
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Mine're 'complex' because they're astigmatic 9.25 diopter short sighted compressed lenses :)

So I could get the 'free' ones.

But they'd give off a glare like the sun, have totally unmanageable reflections, and be about four inches wide.

NB: I love it when choosing frameless, the lad / lassie says 'you do realise people will notice you've got thick lenses if you go for frameless'. Every time, guaranteed. Like, I've got nine point fucking two five diopter lenses. Any c-nt with half a pair of eyes can see I'm blind as a naked mole rat. Because it's undeniably obvious. The light is refracted ridiculously. They are patently obviously thick lenses. Putting a thin piece of coloured plastic between the edge of the lenses and the world is not going to con people into thinking I'm just wearing them for cosmetic effect, ffs :D
 
electrogirl said:
What makes it so complicated then? For you and Geri.
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astigmatism - very high on left, lower on the right - I also have keratokonus but that's separate and needs hard contant lenses to correct it, but I no longer wear them.
short-sighted on both eyes, about 3.5 (can't rememeber exactly what)

plus now I also need reading glasses, so they combined the whole thing into a varifocal lens (imported from Germany) - they spent 30 minutes trying to work if there actually existed a lens which could take my prescription and fit on a small frame, luckily they found one. also because my prescription is high and i don't want bottle ends it costs extra to make them thinner, and anti-reflective. Which means that the lens alone cost me £400 :(

the frames I liked were on sale, 1/2 price sale, just as well.

I've never wore varifocals like this before, the woman said it may take me up to 2 weeks to get used to them as I'll have to focus on different regions of the lens for different distances.

But it's no wonder I had been getting very tired eyes in last 6 months or so - I'm getting old and my near sight vision is deteriorating as well as the existing 'blindness' I've had since childhood.
 
I sometimes use (out-of-date) contact lens cleaning solution - I think it rinses off better than washing-up liquid, but I might just be imagining that.

Its a handy little bottleto keep at work anyway.
 
This might sound like a stupid thing to assume, but wont your specs smell awful if you clean them with vinegar? I'm going to try the washing up liquid.
 
Geri said:
Mine is a combination of being very shortsighted (-10) and astigmatism. My sister is worse, I think she is -12 or so.
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Something like 14.25 in one, and fuck knows what in the other.

Last time I went to the opticians, it cost me £800. Lenses are approx £175 each.
 
Madusa said:
This might sound like a stupid thing to assume, but wont your specs smell awful if you clean them with vinegar? I'm going to try the washing up liquid.
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Vinegar really doesn't smell bad. I use vinegar and bicarb for all the cleaning and the house doesn't smell like a chippy.
 
Geri said:
I've tried spectacle cleaner and it makes no difference, they are just constantly smeary and it's doing my head in.

Is there anything else I can try that won't make it worse? If I took them to an optician could they clean them for me there and then?
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how old are the lenses, an optician told me that the coating on the lenses will break down after a few years, maybe you should just get new ones. bit expensive but worth it in the long run.
 
I always use bog standard window cleaner (Mr Muscle or something similar) applied with kitchen towel.

I used to work in the pub where the landlord put his in the glass washer on the last load of the night - they'd come out sparkingly clean ........................ and very hot !
 
We use alcohol hand rub at work so I use a bit of that if they get too messy with dairy products. You can get little bottles of that in Wilkos or Boots. At home we've got those cheapy spec wipes from Wilkos. I've not got a special coating on my specs though. I don't know if the alcohol rub would impede that.
 
extra dry said:
how old are the lenses, an optician told me that the coating on the lenses will break down after a few years, maybe you should just get new ones. bit expensive but worth it in the long run.
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I reckon they are 5-6 years old. I've made an appointment for Friday to get some new ones. :cool:
 
If you've got a pair of anti-reflection coated glasses then putting fairy liquid or using vinegar can damage the coating. The problem you get then is it dosen't matter how much you clean them then they're always going to look like they need a wipe. Working in an opticians people get pretty upset when you tell them it's going to cost x amount of pounds to see clearly again just cos they have used the most convenient thing to clean them with. Uncoated lenses, knock yourself out, fairy liquid will shift the grease no probs and will do the job better than any glasses cleaner.

I used to work in the pub where the landlord put his in the glass washer on the last load of the night - they'd come out sparkingly clean
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I wish more people would do this whatever coating they have because you would not believe how much face cheese builds up on glasses!
 
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