Where's a cheap place to buy cloths for cleaning spectables.

dazco

zenmaster wrote:

Slightly off topic but, basill, I guess you work in a pub?

What's the best thing to stop them steaming up when you walk out of the cold night into a pub (for example).

It's a real pain. By the time I've de-steamed them (wipe 'em on me shirt) at least 3 people have pushed in front of me to the bar.

Solve this one and you will be my friend for life.

Try cleaning them with shaving FOAM.

My advise to anybody wth glasses is get your eyes lasered ( if you can ). It has changed my life.

imho

I clean mine with "cd cleaning spray" from the £1 shop.they clean up really good .

mishkanorman

mssjab wrote:

Albeit for me to disagree with someone who works in/as an optometrist but surely you're joking?

You say that something called Solution 30 is very good but it will melt some budget frames - that sounds really good. What advice do you give someone who has bought (or are thinking of buying) 'budget' frames on how they should clean them - or do you try to talk them into buying more expensive frames? You wouldn't happen to work on commission by chance?
I'd also be interested if you can tell me what the difference is in quality of 'budget' frames at say £30/Pair and those at £75/Pair on a 2 for the price of 1 offer.

Perhaps you'd be kind enough to tell me what make of washing up liguid will melt frames as I've no desire to have the skin taken off my hands, and so I'd like to give the product the pass.

Your comment about washing up liquid (which is a mild detergent, is it not?) is, in my opinion, a load of rubbish. Desolving coatings on lens' - whatever next!!

And you'll find that rinsing out a microfibre cloth in 'clean' washing up water will not clean the cloth. To do this properly, the cloth should be washed as you would do other clothes except, and this is the only part where you're (partially) right, the final rinse must not contain a fabric softener.

I'm afraid that the comments you've made are what one can expect from optometrist's trying to sell their over inflated priced products.

I've been using the method that I wrote about for over 10 years on spectacles fitted with plastic photochromic lenses, without any problems. I suppose that I've been very lucky!!!

The advice given was actually very good, some cleaners have a acetone base to them (like nail varnish remover) this can literally melt the frame.

The poster didnt put 'buy my product, heres the link' they were merely trying to help using their own experience. Dismissing them because you have no personal experience of it was unfair.


mishka