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12/03/2010, 18:38 Dog Joined on 24/08/2004 Lost in France Posts 2,593 Re: Removing Super Glue from glass Highest refraction lenses are quartz glass ain't they? Don't want milk bottles and plastic scratches so easily. Espouse elucidation and eschew obfuscation!    Report

12/03/2010, 19:34 Gluestick Joined on 22/03/2006 UK and Nord Pas de Calais Posts 3,316 Re: Removing Super Glue from glass Most High Diopta lenses today are made from multi-coated plastic: which is remarkably scratch resistant, as the final coatings resist damage from normal wear and tear. They are also far, far lighter. Interestingly, I still have a pair of glasses I had made up in 1972: for motor racing. The lenses are made from Triplex Glass and guaranteed shatterproof! The guarantee is still in the glasses case. Soft slick tyres as commonly used then were notorious for sucking up small flints when hot; and throwing them from the periphery of the tyre at huge speed later on. The very talented Austrian driver Dr Helmut Marko was blinded whilst driving in the French Grand Prix: a stone thrown up by Emmerson Fittipaldi's Lotus, penetrated the safety visor of his fully enveloping Bell Star helmet and blinded him in one eye. I immediately changed my Bell Star visor for one guaranteed to take a charge of buckshot from a 12 bore from ten feet! But I still had the safety glasses made up too. Belt and braces! Boy! Are they ever heavy!   "Yes, but that apart, Mrs Lincoln, did you enjoy the play?" Gluestick    Report

12/03/2010, 19:45 Dog Joined on 24/08/2004 Lost in France Posts 2,593 Re: Removing Super Glue from glass You have to worry when the weight of your glasses comes into consideration in a sporting event. Quartz still has a higher refractive index. I just wear goggles that will withstand a shotgun blast at short distance. Modern hi-powered motorcycles with sticky tyres shoot out grit at high speed and it doesn't half hurt when you ride in cotton trousers. Espouse elucidation and eschew obfuscation!    Report

17/03/2010, 12:50 RicandJo Joined on 24/09/2007 Aude / London City Posts 372 Re: Removing Super Glue from glass <BLOCKQUOTE><table width="85%"><tr><td class="txt4"><img src="/cs/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif">&nbsp;<strong>Dog wrote:</strong></td></tr><tr><td class="quoteTable"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="100%" valign="top" class="txt4"><P>I broke my specs and glued the lense back in with super glue and got it all over the lense.</P> <P>White spirit wouldn't budge it nor cigarette lighter fuel but bingo MEK - methyl ethyl ketone did it straight away.</P> <P>The fumes can give you liver cancer amongst other things so use it in a well ventilated area. The MEK I used was for melting plastic pipes together - MEK was used as a rubber rejuvinator in the printing trade but was banned some years ago.</P></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE> MEK is still used in some industries....... JEEP = Just Empty Every Pocket http://www.cardomain.com/ride/400080    Report

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