Repair your eyeglasses during COVID-19 lockdown

Yes we repair eyeglasses. It is never a good time when your spectacles get broken. And during the COVID-19 lockdown, to have a replacement set of your glasses may be very challenging.

Professional

We dedicate resources and time to spectacles repair, and we have been doing it for years

Specialized

We have invested in specialized equipment to perform our repairs

Experienced

We have repaired thousands of eyeglasses over the years

Nationwide

We serve customers from all over Singapore. Indeed, we also serve other optical shops and lens labs

International

We receive eyeglasses for repair from overseas. Individuals and optical chain stores use our service

Highly rated

We are grateful with our customers for all the outstanding reviews that they have left online

EXPRESS SERVICE

When it is possible, we will make an extra effort to complete the repair within 1 day. And for simple repairs we will complete the service within few hours. Extra charges apply

HOME DELIVERY

We can arrange the delivery to your address. So you don’t need to return for the collection. Charges for the deliveries are $20.

METALS

We can weld or solder most metals, including titanium, stainless steel, nickel alloys and precious metals. Also, we are not able to weld FLEXON (that is a titanium alloy used in some frames made by Marchon).

PLASTICS

We can mend cellulose acetate (usually called simply “acetate”) and celluloid. Unfortunately, we are not able to mend most injection plastics, including nylon, ultem, TR90 and grilamid.

Which breaks can be mended

Most frames give way at a stress point rather than across a rim: a soldered joint where the bridge meets the rim, an end piece, a hinge that has worked loose in its seat, or the screw thread in a temple. Metal joints of that kind can usually be re-welded or re-soldered, provided the alloy takes heat.

Acetate and celluloid are different work. A clean break can be bonded and reinforced, and a hinge pulled out of its seat can be re-set, but the colour and polish around the repair have to be worked back by hand. Injection plastics such as nylon, ultem, TR90 and grilamid respond to neither method.

Clear photographs of the break, taken close and in good light, are usually enough to tell which of these a frame needs. Visio Optical offers repair, and spectacles restoration and repaint.

How to tell acetate from injection-moulded plastic

The two look similar on a shelf and behave nothing alike under a repair. Cellulose acetate is cut and milled from a solid sheet, so the colour runs right through the material and any pattern has visible depth and layering. It feels dense and slightly warm in the hand, and the edges have been polished rather than moulded.

Injection plastics — nylon, ultem, TR90, grilamid — are shot into a mould, so the colour is even and flat throughout, the frame is noticeably lighter and springier, and there is often a faint seam line running along the inside of the temple or around the rim. That springiness is the point of the material, and it is also why a clean break in it will not take a bond.

If you are unsure, photograph the frame from the inside of the temple where the model name and any material code are usually printed, along with a close shot of the break itself in good light. Between the two, the material and the method are usually clear.