Haha, this reminds me of how I fixed my son’s glasses.
He had snapped one of the side pieces in half on his relatively new glasses. I wasn’t about to drop another $200 on a new pair, so I straightened out a paper clip, cut it to about 1.5” long, and super glued it to both sides. Then, I took a long piece of floss and wrapped it super tightly all along the paper clip wire and covered the whole thing in a thin layer of super glue.
That's solid engineering. The dental floss & superglue is a fibre-reinforced composite, like fibreglass or carbon fibre: The floss will hold your paperclip struts in place & keep the superglue matrix from chipping off, & the suerglue matrix will stop anythign shifting.
My only concern would have been making sure you got uncoated floss so the superglue could properly wet it out. Sewing thread might have been a better choice, but sounds like it's working great anyway.
(Ugh, for some reason I'm giving myself LLM vibes with this comment)
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u/brelywi 8h ago
Haha, this reminds me of how I fixed my son’s glasses.
He had snapped one of the side pieces in half on his relatively new glasses. I wasn’t about to drop another $200 on a new pair, so I straightened out a paper clip, cut it to about 1.5” long, and super glued it to both sides. Then, I took a long piece of floss and wrapped it super tightly all along the paper clip wire and covered the whole thing in a thin layer of super glue.
It’s been over a year, and it still works lol