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How to Adjust Your Plastic Frames at Home.
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welcome to I talk in the following video
we're gonna show you how to adjust your
plastic frame at home using a few simple
things like a hairdryer and a small pair
of pliers so when you're adjusting a
frame when it's become too loose and
sliding down your face or is not staying
up properly there are three major areas
we're going to concern ourselves with
the temple tips we're gonna make sure
that they are a nice curved tightly
around the ear the end pieces next to
the hinge we're gonna make sure that it
forms a nice 90 degree angle and the
bridge we're gonna make sure that that
has a nice curve to make the frame front
match the face okay
so here we have a plastic frame for in
other words
Sall material frame which is the more
common kind of plastic material and it's
not fitting properly and as you can see
it's widened out over time so it's going
to slide down your nose is not going to
feel good or maybe not even stay on your
face so what is the first step here the
first step is to bench align the frame
when bench aligning the frame you're
gonna put it on the flat surface upside
down and make sure that all four corners
are touching and when you touch them it
doesn't wobble and you can draw an
imaginary line between the temple tips
and make sure that it forms a nice
rectangle you also want to make sure
that in between the temple and the face
front it forms a nice 90 degree angle so
how do we get there well in this case
you can probably see right here this is
called the face front and the face front
should have a nice curve to it in this
case it really doesn't it's almost
completely straight so the place we're
going to work is right here the bridge
the bridge needs to be tightened to get
these frames to a shape that will
actually fit somebody's head so what do
we need to do now well the first step is
we're going to heat the frame so in my
case I'm going to use a frame heater but
at home is perfectly fine to substitute
a hair dryer for this and what we're
going to focus on is the bridge right
here and you want to be careful
to not heat the lens it can damage the
coating and damage the lungs so you want
to heat just the area that you want to
adjust we're going to heat it just until
malleable so if you give a nice little
light squeeze to the frame while you're
heating it it will tell you when it
becomes malleable so at this point it's
not going to be for a very long time at
this point the frame has become heated
enough to be malleable so we're going to
gently bend it and it should require
very much force to do this it should
just be enough to kind of give that nice
curve so what you have now is a much
nicer curve here this looks more like
the shape of someone's face which is why
it's going to fit much better and you
can also tell these temple pieces are no
longer pointing out they're more
straight which means it's going to fit
the side of someone's face so in this
case this frame would be adjusted to a
point where it's wearable again so here
we have another frame that is no longer
fitting appropriately because the
temples have become too wide but if we
look at the face front
it still has a pretty nice curve to it
so that's not the problem the bridge is
not the problem at this point it's going
to be the end piece where the hinge is
located this is the point that needs to
be tightened when you have a nice curve
here but the frame is still too wide
here in the temples we're going to focus
on the end piece where the hinge is so
in this case you are again going to heat
this frame and I'm only heating the part
I'm going to adjust so in this case this
end piece right here I'm heating that
just until malleable so it doesn't take
very long but you can feel when the
frame starts to give you a little bit of
give that's when it's heated enough and
for this purpose we are going to use a
pair of pliers and the pliers that I
have are specific for frame use but what
you can use is a pair of smaller pliers
or a pair of needle nose pliers and
if you want to be careful in not
scratching the frame you can actually
place a tissue where this is located in
between the frame and the pliers you
would grip it right next to the hinge
and then you would gently curve it in
just until you see that the temple is
starting to go straight so in this case
I think we have a pretty good straight
match and we're going to just copy that
to the other side but in this case you
can see that the temple is no longer
bowing out like it is on this side but
it's a nice square that it's making so
now that you have adjusted the bridge
and the end pieces the last piece of the
puzzle is the temple tip and what you
want to achieve here is a nice curve
that starts right on the top of your ear
so where your ear meets your head so
we're gonna make this a little bit nicer
curve because most people probably
wouldn't fit this snugly cuz we want to
have this as an anchor behind the ear so
that when the glasses try to slide they
don't go anywhere so the way to do this
is to pull out your heating element
again where you will use it to heat the
part that we're going to adjust and
after you've heated it for a few seconds
maybe start by trying 10 seconds you're
going to pull it out and you can use
your thumb and you're going to make a
nice curve here and this is literally
just to kind of fit the shape of your
ear where your ear is located and it
meets your head and just get that into a
nice curve around that shape is good
where exactly the curve is located is
depending on your ear so you'll have to
put the glasses on your face and kind of
feel it out where the top of your ear
meets the frame and that's where you
want to start your curve and if that
fits great then you're just going to
duplicate what you just did to the other
side now before we go just a quick word
of caution before you adjust
any frames please keep in mind the age
and condition of your frame so that you
don't end up damaging it while using
heat makes it much less likely that you
will cost any damage it's still possible
so just be careful when you're doing any
of these adjustments at home thank you
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