Rugged spectacle. Do they exist?

[slowmotion]

Nowt from the hands, from what you're using, making it's way onto the frames?
Is it usually over the bridge of nose that's giving.

Well, I don't work in surgically clean conditions by any stretch of the imagination. It's usually pretty filthy, but there are rarely any chemicals or solvents that could really attack the frames. My problem is that stuff gets dumped on my glasses. I need STRENGTH!

 

[classic33]

Well, I don't work in surgically clean conditions by any stretch of the imagination. It's usually pretty filthy, but there are rarely any chemicals or solvents that could really attack the frames. My problem is that stuff gets dumped on my glasses. I need STRENGTH!

I'll try one place locally and let you know. I managed to get two pairs, that lasted over eight years. Misuse and repeated reseating, with dirty hands, on the face was their weak point.

 

[slowmotion]

I'll try one place locally and let you know. I managed to get two pairs, that lasted over eight years. Misuse and repeated reseating, with dirty hands, on the face was their weak point.

I need misuse resistance, in spades.

 

[raleighnut]

Get a proper pair from an Opticians, I've had my current distance pair and reading glasses for over 5yrs and they're still good. I do keep em in proper steel spectacle cases when not in use though.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

Contacts? Specify you want them for close up work when you get tested.

 

[I like Skol]

I don't know how tough they are but these have started to be issued to people at work who require glasses in the work place - https://www.specsavers.co.uk/corporate/safety-eyewear/jcb-glasses

 

[Drago]

Randolph Engineering frames with lenses cut for your prescription.

What this chap said. Problem solved.

 

[Katherine]

Tip to protect the hinges :
Don't take them off using one hand at the side. Either take them from the bit over the bridge over your nose or use 2 hands, so you are pulling them forwards rather than to one side.

 

[MichaelW2]

Flexon frames are almost indestructable. Beware the plastic ear support is the first point of weakness. I would avoid the plastic coated metal side pieces and go for bare metal.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Bolle Safety Magnifiers are an option - and cheap as:

https://www.screwfix.com/p/bolle-iri-s-clear-lens-safety-specs-with-magnification-2/7681f

 

[Randomnerd]

I’m a drystone waller and use prescription specs from Infield Safety via Safety Specs online. Their plastic specs - made in Germany - are very rugged and the lenses are an accurate prescription. I get about a year out of a pair: thrown in the pick up; pushed in a gritty shirt pocket; left where the dog may give an idle chew to an arm; stuffed in a cycling shirt pocket with other gubbins.

 

[byegad]

I wear varifocals for all but reading in bed, so my glasses get put on in the morning and taken off as I go to bed. Lady Byegad has three pairs of glasses, for driving, reading and TV. She hates wearing them and being a little bit vain, takes them off at every opportunity! I repair at least one pair of her glasses every couple of weeks, usually its a lost screw (I take all out old prescription glasses apart and keep screws, nose pads and the like for the purpose.) but it can also be a broken hinge that I'm called on to repair. My two pairs, varifocals and reading-in-bed glasses, might need a screw tightened once a year. I feel that the off and on life her various glasses live through knocks them out in no time. I cannot persuade her to even consider bifocals or varifocals, because 'I'll have to wear them all day!' That is the one and only reason she gives. Vanity, thy name is woman! To misquote the Bard.

 

[Drago]

I’m a drystone waller...

That's awesome!

 

[Randomnerd]

awesome!

I wouldn’t go that far...

 

[Electric_Andy]

I only have glasses for "all the time" (don't need them for reading) but I've found the Specsavers £49 range fairly good. The bendy metal ones have taken a lot of abuse over the years. I did find the budget (£25) plastic ones were brittle. I guess it depends how much you want to spend.