Eyeglasses Spring Hinge Screw Replacement

It's kind of confusing. Is there any other simpler explanation?

Great post with informative guide. I really appreciated it. Thanks

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Thank you. Much appreciated

Vey nifty and it works! Used 2 paper clips, 1 to pull out as a loop, and the other to keep the hinge jammed open.

I saw the problem, couldn't keep the hinge pushed out with a fine screwdriver while dropping the screw. This also took some doing, but got it done. Thanks for posting

Thanks for the guide. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to put my glasses back together when the holes didn't line up.

Great, thanks - I'll remember this! What a shame I didn't know this when a screw came out of my glasses a year or so ago. I spent ages wondering how to get it back and eventually had to send them away to be fixed.

By the way, good luck with growing your 3rd arm, and be sure to write an Instructable about it when you succeed - I promise I'll favourite it!

This was BEYOND helpful, thank you so much!!

THANK YOUUU!!! I was trying to fix my glasses for like half an hour and was done in 5 mins with your tips!

Yeah nice, but doesn’t work on my pair from Specsavers. I suspect they’ve modified the design to prevent private repair?

hi where can I find a supplier for replacement spring hinges. I've got a pair of tommy Hilfiger th76 and cant locate where to buy a set of spring hinges to replace my broken ones.

regards

stuart

Did not work for my eyeglasses frame (Ballet Image), but I found good workaround.

Problem was that you could not extend spring (Step 3) because it is almost impossible to leverage it out on temples alone.

So I used combination of 3 methods to reattach my temples.

First you take just the frame, no temples attached, and screw in your original frame screw from reverse side. Once it is in just a little, you attach temple. Holes wont align yet, but you just screw reverse screw in little bit again, so it would push on attached temple part and hold it, even if it is not in hole yet. After that you use pin from proper side to leverage spring hinge so holes will match up. Because you applied pressure by reverse hinge, once you align holes reverse screw should pop into hole in temples part. After that you screw reversed screw a bit more to secure aligned holes position and that is when you do step 4 of this guide. Once pin secures alignment, you unscrew reverse screw and screw it in from proper side.

Didn’t find much other info online detailing how to hold the spring in place, so thanks for this.

This saved my life! I just got a new job and glasses were broken! My fault for removing the wrong screw after bending and breaking the threads on the lens joint screw hole. Duh, wrong screw and try as I could, until using this guide, I wasn’t succeeding, I figured out that it was this way, but didn’t figure out the angling of the pin and didn’t know about using a push pin. Lost my push pin, but got two tools out of the iFixit screw bit set, and bada boom, was able to put the screw back in.

Now to figure out how to remove the super glued frame and using new upsize screw I bought.

I know acetone can remove super glue drips, I wonder if soaking in it was get me back to just the broken frame so I can use oversize threaded screw…

On kenzo glasses there is no access hole to hold the spring in place. After fiddling with it for 40 minutes, a thin piece of stiff metal with a ledge at the end, (I used an ikea leftover shelf holder and cut off a few extra bits to make it easier to use) and a rubber band worked great.

I wrapped some gaffers tape around the thin metal to prevent scratches, and forced it between the metal shell and the spring loaded hole thing. I wrapped a rubber band around it a good 5-6 times to hold the metal piece in place, lined up the holes on the frame and the screw went it nicely. At least I know the technique now, and won't waste 40 minutes on it ever again!

Thank you! Clear, to the point and worked !

Super instructions! It explained the situation I was in and the resolution with easy to understand directions. The photos also helped. Thank you!

I need to find a shop to have someone do this as I CAN'T SEE without my glasses, lol. I tried every combination of eyeglass screw replacement/shop, etc. This is the closest. No one has onsite techs with tools…

Thank you so much for posting this! Found it easier to use the first pin to hold the leg and frame in place then push the second pin into the hinge recess, removing the first pin before putting the screw back in. Thanks again for sharing, great post!

I was going nuts trying to figure this out, thank you for posting this guide.

Spent my day working on it not knowing to pull a spring hinge. Helped a lot thanks!

Thanks, this was a big help. When mending my daughter's glasses, I found three things that others may find helpful. Firstly, a second person to apply the screw with tweezers and screw it in was very helpful, as holding the frame and the arm in order to keep the holes aligned sufficiently took two hands to achieve. Secondly, the spring hinge extended more than I thought at first, so that for the first couple of attempts, I discovered that I had not applied enough pressure, when in fact it would open up at least another 0.5mm or so; this doesn't sound like much, but actually made all the difference in being able to align the screw with the holes and also get good purchase with the screw thread. Thirdly, as we used an iFixit kit to achieve this repair, the best thing we found to wedge the spring-hinge notch open with was the 0.7mm hex-head bit. It stayed in place, and by exerting a little leverage pressure on the back of it when my wife was wiggling the screw into position, it helped to let the screw drop in.

So awesome! Many years later, this worked perfectly on my capri prescription frames!