Cleaning glasses?

J. Hoffman

J. Hoffman

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I'm a freak about keeping my eyes safe, and I wear glasses just about anytime I'm in the shop. My problem is that they quickly become dusty and hard to see out of. I find myself cleaning my glasses all the time. Has
anyone found a way to keep dust from collecting on your glasses, or an easier way to clean them?
 
I wear glasses all the time now. After a couple years of cleaning, wiping & scratching up the lenses I stopped. Now I clean em once a week with water and a eye glass cloth.
 
Face shield. Oh, and don't grind with 36 grit ceramic belts and expensive prescription polycarbonate lens bifocal glasses. Ask me how i know!!!!
 
The best cleaner for eye glasses is made by MagicFiber. You'll never go back once you've used them.
 
Supposedly, the WORST cleaner is Windex, especially for anti-glare coated plastic lenses. I use dish soap.
 
I use windex and a microfiber cloth... ALOT when Im in the shop.. A full face shield may help keep some of the dust off.. Perhaps safety goggles over the glasses may work as well.
 
Several cheap $6.95 prescription glasses from Zenni Optical, clean them with soap and hot water, let them air dry after shaking off the excess water. Try to never wipe them, that will just cause smearing with modern lenses.
 
I either use soap and water or alcohol spritz and paper towels.
The water and soap wash away grinding grit before you wipe them.

If you're in a low humidity area with high static, breathing on the lense and letting it clear can reduce the charge.


real glass lenses are heavier than plastic, but they almost never scratch unless there is grinding grit on them.
 
I have had glasses for a zillion years it seems. I use my magnifiers over top for eye protection as well as magnification.I've ended up with washing them with warm water and the liquid soap several times a day if I get back into the house.
Frank
 
I've wore glasses for all day every day for about 23 years. I buy the lense cleaning kits from Walmart for something like $4.99. They have a little spray bottle of 'cleaner' and a microfiber towel. They refill the bottle of cleaner for life. So I've bought about 5 or 6 kits and I take a whole handful of bottles in to be refilled at the same time. For normal day to day cleaning I just spray and wipe. When I'm working in the shop or other dusty/gritty environments, I like to run them under the hottest water I can get out of the tap, then spray and wipe to avoid water spots.

jdm61 said:
Face shield. Oh, and don't grind with 36 grit ceramic belts and expensive prescription polycarbonate lens bifocal glasses. Ask me how i know!!!!
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36 grit ceramic belts are what caused me to start wearing a face shield. I haven't damaged my glasses, but those bits of grit chips bounce enough to get in my eye even with regular glasses on. Now I wear my face shield with most of my grinding regardless of grit.
 
These are just cheap safety glasses that I have. I switched to contacts years ago. I just find myself taking of the glasses to see things more clearly, and then forget to put them back on. Thanks for all the suggestions.
 
J. Hoffman said:
These are just cheap safety glasses that I have. I switched to contacts years ago. I just find myself taking of the glasses to see things more clearly, and then forget to put them back on. Thanks for all the suggestions.
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That's OK, I find myself constantly trying to blow the shavings and dust off my tools, only to feel like an idiot when I realize I'm wearing a respirator.
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I wash under running water and soap to lift the grit off. I scratched two pairs of expensive glasses before I started doing it this way.
 
Running water and a drop of dish soap does the trick for me. I just scrub the lens between my fingers and dry on a soft cloth.
 
I don't wear glasses but I've cleaned a lot of optics over the years. You can never be sure about what you're wiping the lens with unless it's fresh out of the wrapper. Even then, with lower end Chicom stuff, there could be particles of scratchy stuff on it.

What I do with expensive rifle scopes is blast the lens with compressed air first. You want to blast the air away from the lens first in case there's any junk in the air hose/tip. After that I turn the scope up side down and spray it a bunch with optics cleaner and let it drip off. Then I'll clean around the edges where the lens is attached with a surgical grade q-tip(the ones that come x2 in a paper package). Then I'll wipe the lens itself with Zeiss lens wipes. Finally I'll turn the scope upside down again and blast again with compressed air. This removes all the optic cleaner.

It may seem a little obsessive but once a lens is scratched, you can't unscratch it.

http://www.amazon.com/Zeiss-Pre-Moistened-Lens-Cleaning-Wipes/dp/B0030E4UIQ
 
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I use spray furniture polish. Fills in the scratches and cuts down on dust. Also, smells like lemmons.

Hoss
 
A spray surfectant like Scrubbing Bubbles will actually dislodge grit and lift it off the lens so that it can be rinsed off with water.
 
These work great. Anti fog too. Cheap enough to use several times a day, I snag em at work though.
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For you guys who have prescription glasses. some solutions will screw up some of the the coatings on the lenses.
 
I've gone to wearing safety glasses over the regular prescription glasses anytime anything is moving around. I too have found on the prescription glasses that the real glass lens last a lot longer in our enviroment than the polys. For cleaning the prescription glasses I use a spary from the Dr and a cloth he provides. For the safety glasses just wipe with a shop towel, then replace when they are bad.
 
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