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Submitted by: My name is Mike and this are my friend Wesley his glasses. I drive along with him almost every day a via Submit a Kludge!
Favorite Comment: Fixer The Doctor says, “Hello, optometry? Yes, can you make me a monocle that won’t fall of when I experience surprise or astounding revelation?”
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We are legion
i like this, where can i get it> haha.
Faced with a similar situation, my dh crafted wooden earpieces for his glasses–and wore them everywhere for years like that. Shall we say he’s…frugal?
Our dh is a bigamist. Sounds just like what mine would do.
I’m surprised his glasses managed to break inside his pocket protector…
I see what u did there
Nerd powers ACTIVATE!
These glasses are so awful that they make glasses that are held together by white tape look bad-ass
Hello, optometry? Yes, can you make me a monocle that won’t fall of when I experience surprise or astounding revelation?
If there’s reasonable strength in these glasses, migraine is just around the corner!
I walked around for a month with only one earpiece cause I was either lazy or hurting too much to go to get new ones. Got them fixed yesterday and new glasses Monday.
…and now, I present you the brand new
X-ray/3D/WiFi/blue-tooth/UV-laser-block/kludge-glasses!!!
New glasses are really expensive. He’s really adept at making them last.
I swear that looks like soldering wire…
looks like bailing wire, which I believe you can get at an auto store.
Foakley kludge WIN
Needs duct tape.
I wish I knew an optician to send this kludge to…
Has to be uncomfortable seeing through them in that condition.
Please buy a new pair!!Get insurance that covers it, please
Stupid. I’m getting tired or seeing lame pictures of stuff that has been fabricated for the purpose of this page. Put up real pictures or don’t bother….
At last! Someone with the same feelings as me!! I’m getting to the point of removing this feed from my bookmarks as they’re obviously deliberate construction is getting boring!
Actually my ex did something similar to this, not so extreme but very similar.
The place I work has one guy who comes in with a bit of string attached to the stems, and he ties the string behind his head, on top of his wooly hat.
His are really grimy though, at least this guy cleans his.
I do miss Dono1′s sarcastic puns though. Where are you Dono, why have you forsaken us?
Or just buy a new pair online. Thats what I did to drop my expensive as hell glassed down to a more managable size
Now. if I can go from 550 for a pair of glasses to 120 with shipping. I know you can do better :3……..given my sight, that kludge would drive me absolutely BATTY.
And yet….I had to wear broken glasses for a couple years, the spring in the temple broke 2 days after the warranty expired. so either 80 buck new temple OR I got told they could put some shrink plastic on the joint. It really wasn’t noticeable….just annoying as I couldn’t bend it anymore……tho near the end of a year or shrink tubing, that stuff did start to bend
Most of my nerdy friends don’t advertise that they’re geeks.
Cyclops is sure getting old
Why the comments about Cyclops and monocle when there are clearly TWO lenses??
The nearest side HASN’T got a lense in.
For this reason, check out the glasses on this pic
http://www.canalred.info/public/Fondos_Pantalla/Cine%20y%20Tv/X%20Men%20-%20Cyclops.jpg
But, does anyone else worry about Mike that is riding with him everyday?
I’m an optician. I’ve seen (and done) plenty of stuff worthy of this board.
It’s a simple equation.
1. Try to get the customer to buy a pair of glasses and see the Dr. also if warranted. That’s the biz! And, btw, glasses are overall far cheaper than they were decades ago and do stuff that comes close to sci-fi now.
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2. Person has no money, but needs to see…
—Enter the “I fixed it” category.
That image is cliche to me. Those drug store “Fix yer glasses kits” have only a few screws and they usually manage to make em ALL unusable to 99% of eyewear. Sadly, Corporate systems tend to do away with “impluse” so it’s career threatening to beg the stuffed suit pigs to stock things customers ask for… Most “Real” screws are so tiny, most consumers would lose them.
But that’s good for you, actually. Since they don’t have a system set up to “Charge” you, most places do it for free and the few “Independant” stores have an edge the corporate McJobSlaves don’t have to know or care on…
You have a bad pair of glasses, just go into a shop, even if you don’t have any $. Most pros (like me) fix it for free or at worst accept a tip, only a few ‘chain’ stores have minimum fix $ policies. A customer, sooner or later is worth 25c or less + time you’d spend drawing fantasies of filing a “Postal Service Job Complaint” against the corporate pig who made you take down your custom “Ad” poster. Be honest, if they have to charge you no matter what, don’t go there just be polite about it. On the other hand, sometimes glasses this far gone falls apart in their hands, and trust me they try everything to make that NOT happen. In that case they’ll offer you a replacement or if they can’t afford to do that, they usually warn you ahead of time. (I’m working on “Waivers” for when I start my own shop)
One thing I did was convert a pair of full rim into semi-rimless with glue, by layer after layer after layer, then undo the glue (heating it) and putting in the new lenses. Customer had to SEE to WORK to afford the new pair, so I made something that’d make the Frankenstein monster scream in horror, but it worked, and then I undid what I did;-)
Well as long as it works. That’s pretty good, resourceful.
… and it has a sixty day standby time!
I wonder what her optician thinks of her glasses. Amazingly resourceful!
oculus reparum!
Wire looks like tin soldering. Photo probably shot while iron was heating up.
It’s like the mullet of glasses…business in the front and part in the back!