Eyeglass Coating Removal Hack
Here’s an interesting hack that was featured on the Make blog. It involves removing the UV filter coating from a pair of glasses simply by polishing them. Warning don’t try this with a new pair of glasses!
As Jason (hack author) puts it:
The lenses in my favorite pair of glasses are getting to be about a year or two old, and it’s getting to the point where I can barely see through them. My prescription hasn’t changed much - the problem is that the UV filter coating is starting to wear off, giving the entire lense surface a rough, partially-opaque finish.
So what did Jason do? Well he spent an evening polishing the lenses with…get this…sun screen!! Yes oil-free SPF 45 sunscreen did the job quite well! How you say? Well Jason thinks that it might be because “sunscreen has extremely fine aluminum powder in its composition, which is course enough to work away the coating, but fine enough to not leave visibly deep scratches in the soft plastic.” Sounds like a good enough explanation for me! Neat hack Jason!!
To check out the whole hack click here.
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