Bloody glasses

[bill_gj]

So, I am not at the age where I need to wear specs in order to read or do anything with any accuracy. I suppose it happens to most of us.
I was OK until I was about 50 and then just needed occasional help but now its all the time for arms-length stuff and closer.

So, now I find that when I'm stooping, under the car, leaning sideways etc (all the positions you get into when your try a bit of diy, welding, woodwork, you name it) my specs will find a way of sliding off my head.

I've got one of those bits of string that lets them dangle in from of you when they're not needed, but keeping them on my face when working is the problem.

Anyone got any solutions?

 

[madkayaker]

You can get a sports strap that goes across the back of your head. However they shouldn't be that loose I wear them all the time and haven't come across that problem

 

[cumbriasteve]

As above.. no problems at all, glasses do loosen over time so perhaps yours have and it's time to visit the shop and get them adjusted.

It may be worth trying contacts and see if you get away with them, if I'm not mistaken I think I read you can try plain lenses without the cost before getting the real things.

 

[bill_gj]

I'd thought about sports straps - might try that. What's a good shop for them?
My newest specs still give me the same slip-off probs.

 

[mike 109444]

Silicon tube sliped over the ends of the arms? (where they go behind you ears)
Or just silicon sealer them on (you won't drom them then )

 

[Jester]

If you haven't got any ears, that could cause the symtoms you describe
If the arms are loose, try gently tweaking them to fit.
I agree - bloody glasses. I have bifocals, great wen I was using a handheld screen - now that I've got an automatic mask I need to tilt my head back and can then only see through the lower part of the screen !!!! I think I need to buy a pair of reading glasses

 

[pedrobedro]

I buy cheap reading glasses from the pound shop for use in the shed. 1.5 works for me but stronger ones are available and I bend the side arms and nose grips to stop them slipping down. You could gaffer tape the arms to your temples

 

[rtbcomp]

Your heads shrinking.

Can you still get those National Health frames with large hooks that go behind the ears?

 

[eil]

They are a pain Bill, Ive got umpteen pairs all over the place, strategically placed of course, and that anti scratch thing they offer you on them is no good either.

 

[cumbriasteve]

These will sort it for you, even got an anti condensation inlet.

 

[GeorgiePorgie]

Take a bit of double sided tape,put tape on nose....job done.

 

[CompoSimmonite]

When I started a hobby engineering course one of the requirments was safety glasses. I went to the optician and found such are VAT free so got a pair. Numerous options including some with elasticated strap that goes around the back of your head to keep them in place.

Paul h

 

[Cobbler]

Have you tried a woolly hat, pulled down over your ears, keeps the specs arms in place. Its very annoying, I need reading glasses for anything close & they fall off just when you need them most. Woolly hat works for me, but not an ideal solution.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Laser eye treatment, you'll never look back.

 

[julianthegypsy]

I use the old give them a bend in the middle trick to keep them on. I usually have mine on the end of my nose, which is fine until I flip my mask down and find I'm looking over them.

 

[wheresmejumper]

the strap from safety goggles

 

[defender dan]

Laser eye treatment, you'll never look back.

+1 best thing i`ve ever spent my hard earned on . I was short sighted with a prescription of 4.75 so blind as a bat without, no more glasses slipping off I could see the alarm clock when I woke up, no more steaming up going in/outside or opening the oven door & I could see when it was raining without having to constantly clean the lenses too.

Regard`s, Dan.

 

[pedrobedro]

Laser eye treatment, you'll never look back.

That's what they said when I had my wing mirrors nicked.

 

[bill_gj]

Thanks for the tips chaps (!)

I like the pic, cumbriasteve - looks like one of Terry Gilliam's creations from Monty Python.

NHS specs - don't see frames like that at all. My optician (and all others, from what I've seen) have specs only suited to sitting at a desk for work or hobby. I'd go for the old NHS frames with curly arms if they were available.

I was waiting for my turn at the optician about a year ago when a chap came in to see about getting some new specs. He was obviously doing a bit of welding in his job - his plastic lenses had spatter on them - and the staff proceeded to chastise him about the state of his glasses! For him, I suppose it was all in the line of earning money, but it just goes to show how little some folks appreciate non-office jobs, shall we say.

I used to buy those cheap half-lens readers that were all plastic with metal arms that were easily bent, but even the cheap readers seem to have been stricken by the fashion police and I haven't seen them on sale for a while. Broke my last pair a few weeks ago.

Laser surgery - who did the work chaps? Thought about it a few times.

 

[ajlelectronics]

I use silicone nose pads. If you adjust them right, you can jam the pads down on your nose and they will stay there, sometimes even upside down in a car footwell. I agree it is a pain though, I have three different sets. Not so much distance correction, but astigmatism.