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Thread ID: 90797	2008-06-16 20:20:00	Glasses keeping clean in rain etc ?	Digby (677)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
679008	2008-06-17 08:12:00	Just pat them dry with a tissue.	beeswax34 (63)
679009	2008-06-17 10:34:00	Just pat them dry with a tissue. Thank God for a little commonsense! Wearing/cleaning/drying glasses is so pathetically simple that I begin to wonder if Digby might be one of those poor unfortunates who cannot walk and chew gum at the same time, or perhaps an American. Seriously!! Little kids can look after glasses, it is not rocket science. Cheers Billy 8-{) :groan:	Billy T (70)
679010	2008-06-17 19:20:00	Thanks guys for the very helpful replies, esp Nomad. Sorry Billy, but for me as a new user it is taking a while to get used to them and when they are wet you cannot see out of them. I was just wondering what strategies experienced wearers were using.	Digby (677)
679011	2008-06-17 21:47:00	Thank God for a little commonsense! Wearing/cleaning/drying glasses is so pathetically simple that I begin to wonder if Digby might be one of those poor unfortunates who cannot walk and chew gum at the same time, or perhaps an American. Seriously!! Little kids can look after glasses, it is not rocket science. Cheers Billy 8-{) :groan: With rain or sweat I have sometimes had to use a tissue, shirt, cloth, or whatever. My specs cost $950 and when I am home and need to clean them, I do it properly. Using whatever is available CAN scratch the lenses or leave smears - any optician will verify this. Maybe you don't care about scratches and smears but some of us do. And if you really think little kids can look after glasses without scratching, bending or breaking them, I guess you live in a magical world.	Strommer (42)
679012	2008-06-17 21:53:00	... but for me as a new user it is taking a while to get used to them ... It usually takes from 1 to 3 months to get used to specs to the point that you don't think about them being there anymore. With progressive lenses some people never get used to them although there are different types of progressives and the larger the lens the easier it is for the brain to adjust to progressives. BTW imho there is no need to apologize when someone is being rude to others.	Strommer (42)
679013	2008-06-17 22:25:00	If contact lenses are not an option for you for wet activities, the suggestion someone made to use a baseball cap or brimmed hat is a good one - that is what I use when wearing specs. The problem I find with glasses and some activities like cycling and tramping is sweating - sweat on your lenses is a bigger problem than rain, because of the salty content. It is much harder to clean from lenses than water. In those circumstances, I rinse the specs off in a creek (or squirt them with my water bottle), and then shake the worst of the water off and dry as best as possible. Trouble is, if you are sweating profusely, it is usually impossible to keep tissues or a cloth dry as well... A hat or a sweat band is a good idea to keep the worst off. Bike helmets usually have a sponge across your brow, but that will fill up after a while and the drips start. You have to squeeze it out and start again.	John H (8)
679014	2008-06-18 07:25:00	If you are going to be sweating and playing sports esp contact sports, contacts is one way and esp for places with high humidity like Singapore, if you walk out of a air conditioned building your glasses will fog up. For glasses, as I said in the other thread, I have had glasses playing basketball and they have dropped on gym floor and bounced up, a few occasions with aggression I threw my glasses and the lenses flew out .. yeah there are some dings on the lenses and a few scratches but they are still perfectly viewable, I can still use them now and its fine. Glasses are really quite tough incl the basic plastic lenses - not the hardened more $$ lenses. Some optometrist would take your lenses out of the frames simply by pushing them out of the frames and then push them back into the frames and then wipe them clean. They don't necessarily need to carefully use the miniture screwdriver and open it up to slide the lenses inside. If you are a science student at the lab you may be asked to use safety goggles - with plastic lenses glasses, that is a substitute. Just make sure you get the std plastics in NZ which should incl a hard coat. I had glasses bought overseas but they lasted not long and got scratched over and I didn't even play sports with them .. they were so scratched you couldn't see them, if you looked ahead they were ok .. but with all the scratches they were v glarey, which a raining day and then become sunlight was v hard or for me impossible and I drove without them .. since I am just slight short sighted but more in astigmatism. It takes about a month to get use to either - get use to contacts or for glasses to get use to them, if you have astigmatism and prescribed special lenses for them .. you may get dizzy or headaches which your eyes will get use to them .. if you cannot the Optometrist may need to do a balancing act that is, reduce the accuracy of the lenses to provide you with a better comfort level. If you wanted fancy sunglasses with a prescription you can, choose your lenses and color and the frames. A v $$ way is that you can get Oakley sunglasses, buy those and they will send it to Oakley and they will put your prescription in it with the real Oakley sunglass color lenses. They should return the original non prescription lenses to you as well. If you got other prescription sunglass lenses they can fit into the Oakley frames but they won't look the same.	Nomad (952)
679015	2008-06-18 08:47:00	Just pat them dry with a tissue. and you end up with glasses covered in bits of tissue !	tweak'e (69)
679016	2008-06-18 09:27:00	and you end up with glasses covered in bits of tissue ! And this can be removed with the new micro fibre cloth. Most opticians sell these and give advice on which way to rotate thumb whilst pressing gently with apposing 3rd finger.	Cicero (40)
679017	2008-06-18 10:24:00	and you end up with glasses covered in bits of tissue ! Actually you dont. I'm only patting with it and absorbing the moisture. Maybe you need stronger tissues?	beeswax34 (63)
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