~ Frame Welder ~ Updated 20/08/2011

In the old days it used to be acetone, the standard optical solvent which still works on some materials, but on most it will not.

Actually on a perfect job, you don't chemically bond the broken material. You actually have to soften up and dissolve the broken surfaces and them stick them

back together and hold them solid together for a period of at least 12 hours. The material has bonded itself. There will be a light bulge around the joined area which has to be filed down and polished to become and invisible repair job.

We make, use and sell our own mixes OMS Welder A, which is perfect for acetate materials which is based on acetic acid.
OMS Welder B which works beautiful with most of the injected materials as proprionate and polycarbonate.

 

How to fuse a broken frame

Our welders have only one simples function, to dissolve the eye glass frame materials. By dissolving the broken surface for 1/2 mm and then joining the 2 surfaces you will fuse back the material to a invisible just perfect condition.

Pour some of the liquid into the bottle cap. Remove the lens from the frame and give the bevel one turn on your hand edger to reduce the size of the lens by about 1/2mm. After finishing pour the liquid back into the bottle for re-use.

Now dip the 2 broken surfaces into the liquid for not more than one to 2 seconds and remove. Repeat this a few times until you see the surfaces start to soften slightly. Then insert the lens into frame and close the break.  When pressing the break together you will see a bulge appear around the fused area. Secure with some elastic rubber band  crossing to each side and holding the fused spot together. Let dry overnight. Next morning you file, sandpaper and polish the fused area, and it will become a totally invisible fused job done without any glue, just by using its own material.

With what to fuse a broken frame

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