NFR Ultrasonic cleaner for polarized glasses?

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I wanted to see how people approach cleaning their polarized glasses. I typically use the microfiber cloth for quick cleanings, then use soapy water after a trip. But over a summer, you tend to build up a lot of "human" on your frames, bridge pads, etc.

My wife recently got an ultrasonic cleaner for her eyeglasses and I've been wondering if anyone has tried using one of these with their precious polarized glasses. I couldn't find any recommendations on the web, so I thought I'd check with other people who highly value their sunglasses.
 
No, something like what jewelers have I presume. My wife is almost legally blind without corrective lenses and has always been extremely careful with lense care. One thing she always emphasized was never use a dry cloth on the lens.
 
I'd think it might remove any mirroring and hydrophobic coatings from the lenses. Probably hard on painted frames.

Stick with a microfiber cloth and alcohol based cleaners. If they are really gunked up a little grease cutting dish soap in warm water has worked well for me.
 
After being told sternly that I shouldn't use my shirttail I started carrying a glass cleaning cloth in both my waders and my shirt pocket. How glasses get dirty so easily on the river is mystifying.
 
microfiber retains dirt so if not washed routinely, like cleaning glasses with xtra fine emory cloth, so we routinely go through glass cloths from Amazon by the dozen.
 
bobduck said:
How glasses get dirty so easily on the river is mystifying.
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Dust crawling through the brush, dried spots 'cause every fish splashes your lenses, sweaty nose grease (and across the top from bushy old man eyebrows). These are handy to keep in vest pocket, I use them in field on my Ray Bans.
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This thread is quite timely since I just ordered a new pair of prescription (progressive bifocal being the prescription part) polarized shades. I ordered from a firm I hadn't heard of but one that gets great reviews. I need to get some of these alcohol based pre moistened towels since warm water/Dawn/clean soft cloth ain't available stream or lakeside.
 
Never had an issue with my polarized Raybans. I just use some dish detergent and hot water. Then I use a soft cloth to dry. Works great, removes face and hand slime plus whatever food I drip on them when they are in my pocket.
 
I’ve never really cleaned my prescription sunglasses super thoroughly.
I always just take a soft, well worn t-shirt with me and have it in the passenger seat of my rig. It works great for a quick cleaning while driving between beaches. Have done it that way for years.
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Its important for me to keep them clean so I look intimidating when I'm driving hard down the pass into the TRUE DESERT HEAT grimacing TEETH BARED!!!! Red face veins popping driving hard down that pass into the sun!!!

I use a ALCOHOL wipe on mine!!
 
Bad to worse idea progression: my cheap 1.5 walmart readers snapped in the frame, I superglued them back together, the lens seating it all together. This technique often buys a shitty pair of sunnies a few more months, but you have to be super careful with the glue actually settling vs smudging. Super glue just won't purchase on some plastics. Anyway, managed a finger smudge on the upper lens, well out of zone of central vision, ie still usable. I thought it had dried and went to clean it and smudged super glue further into central field of vision. Of course there's super glue all over my fingers now too. Figuring these glasses were basically unusable at this point BUT maybe there was a low chance i could buff it out, got the dremel buff bit and fired it up and managed to melt the lens first swipe in a very neat linear pattern that extended right to the central visual areas. Played around with rotation speed figuring maybe there's a lower speed to avoid the lens melt, and turns out, no, there's not. The lens started to look like this * So take homes for me are very concrete:

A- You can't buff out the superglue from the lens of walmart readers with a high speed rotating tool
B- You are a cheapskate
C- Superglue is your mercurial "friend"
 
Dollar Tree bottle of 70% rubbing alcohol poured into a small spray bottle. Spray both sides and wipe with a clean microfiber cloth.
 
Back when glasses lenses were made of glass, they were easy to keep clean. Just fog them with your breath, and wipe on your shirttail. No risk of scratching.
Now that almost all "glasses" have plastic lenses, I find them a pain to clean. After watching a tech at my optometrist's office clean glasses with Sunlight dish detergent, that's what I do. I dry them with a piece of spit rag (what we used to call a receiving blanket, for feeding babies.) The spray and little cloth from optometrists works second best.
I sure miss glass lenses. They didn't constantly attract a film of crap from the air, or get scratches, like plastic lenses do. I still have my glass polarized Bausch & Lomb Ray Ban Aviators from about 1972, back when I didn't need prescription lenses. I wore them for years, including backpacking around the world and commercial fishing. They have a few chips from being "off the beaten path", but zero scratches. Looking through them is still crystal clear. Too bad I can't wear them now, because now I need special lenses for vision problems. I paid $10 for those Aviators, including a hard case.
 
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