Can you use superglue or anything else as a temporary fix to broken glasses lenses?

Question

My husband wears really strong glasses and for the first time in 30 years he has broken a lense. It currently looks like a cracked windshield with a crack all the way through from top to bottom. Basically I think they are just hanging in there and I am worried they might splinter off or break all together. Which would mean he won't be able to see out of one eye. He is classed as blind without his glasses. Because of the strength of the prescription we have to wait over 2 weeks for them to be sent from Germany. He only has a spare pair from a much older prescription which gives him a headache.

Do you think it would be possible to run a thin line of superglue down the crack to support it?

I'm thinking I'll test a small spot on the older glasses to see if there is any chemical reaction, but I'm thinking this might be the better option than trying sticky tape.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Christie

Answer 1

Running a stream of glue over the crack will just make a big blur.

If they are glass lenses, then super glue will glue it together quite well, but would have to be put on very sparingly right on the inside of the crack, which means, undoing the frame to let the two pieces out, and being able to put them back together after applying glue.

Sounds like you should let someone with experience do it at an optical store.

If they are plastic lenses...the super glue won't hold it at all....but if they are plastic, there is less of a problem...they probably wont chip or break any worse , and will stay in the frame just like they are.

I don't know where you live, but i have never seen a lens that takes 2 weeks to get...no matter how strong. Check around, surely it can be done a lot faster.

I would really suggest you go to an optician tomorrow with them...trying to glue it at home will just make it worse.