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Badman problems

Spring hinges... never again. I went through 2 pairs of carbon/ruby SH A-Wire 2.0 a long while back... both broke at the hinge with normal use. The hinge mechanism is just a tiny 2 mm diameter cylinder that pulled in & out when you overextended the ear stems, & both of them broke there. Because they're so tiny & essentially touching the stem/orbital interface its impossible to weld/glue them back without just sticking the stem permanently open.

The first break I took them to an O-store & cost $100 to fix... which wasn't fixed. They simply replaced my used lenses & rubbers into a new frame. Second time they wouldn't even repair, just offered a crap discount on a new pair, the SH breaking often was obviously a known issue.

I got non-SH pair of A-wire 2.0s after that... & still wear them to this day after a decade. Only good to come out of it is I swap the ruby lenses into my non-SH frame.
 
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