How to Restring Semi-Rimless Glasses Lenses

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is David with Expert Village and I’m going to show you how to adjust glasses. Now I’m going to show you how to restring a semi-rimless frame. Sometimes the glasses have been either stepped on or sat on causing the lenses to slip out. If this is the case, locate a piece of eight pound fishing wire, in order to restring your semi-rimless frames pick up the glasses like so. You will notice that your semi-rimless frame has a groove all along the edge of the lens. Along the inside of the frame, there is a little piece of string that is connected to the frame itself. You want to take your frame, take your lens and make sure that the strings lines up with the inside of the groove on the top piece, top portion of your frame. This will leave the bottom portion of the string, of the frame on top of the lens itself. Take a piece of fishing string or dental floss, insert it into the frame between the frame and the string as such, grab both sides of the string firmly like so and you want to guide the frame’s wire itself into the groove around the lens as such until it pops in. And you want to make sure that the frame is sitting flush around the lens and the adjustments that are necessary can be made by applying pressure in the necessary spots until the lens is clearly flush. In order to remove the string, grip the frame as so, grab one piece of the string or dental floss and pull out like such. You have now replaced the lens in a semi-rimless frame. "