How to Replace the Temple Tips of a Pair of Eyeglasses

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Temple tip is a part that is usually made of plastic or silicon materials. It covers metal parts of eyeglass’s arms. Especially, temple tips help to keep the metal of the frame in place and to make sure that it will not touch the wearer’s skin because the metal part can snap off on the back of the wearer’s ear and cause the feeling of irritation or hurting of skin.

This problem can frequently happen when people have a metal eyeglass with bad quality temple tip material. Therefore, the guide of repairing a temple tip on eyeglasses can help to save time or money instead of bringing it to an optical to fixing.

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Stap 1 Temple Tip

How to Replace the Temple Tips of a Pair of Eyeglasses, Temple Tip: stap 1, afbeelding 1 van 1

Put all separated parts of the eyeglass including the eyeglass frame, temple tip on a clean and flat surface.

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Stap 2

Clean the temple and temple tip with alcohol wipes to make sure any glue residue is removed.

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Stap 3

Drop a single drop of glue onto the end of the temple tip.

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Stap 4

Slide the temple tip into the end of the metal part of the eyeglass temple until you feel the metal part hits the bottom of the temple tip.

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Stap 5

Hold it together for around one minute to keep it in the correction position.

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Stap 6

Using a hairdryer on high heat, heat the temple tip to shrink it for roughly 3-6 minutes.
For safety, wear thick gloves during this step. It can protect you from burning your hand by the hot air of the hairdryer.

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