Is it possible for memory titanium to just snap?

[aphex]

My $400 rimless glasses did the exact same thing a year ago... Right in the middle, and all i did was re-adjust them on my face.

I ended up using electrical tape to keep em on through the night

I'm actually going to pick up my latest pair right now, gonna ask for a prescription as well so I can get a backup pair from Zenni


EDIT: Lol, holy OLD THREAD batman! Sorry, my bad :beer:

 

[jagec]

If it's truly a memory metal it's a nickel-titanium alloy, actually.

If you stress it beyond a certain point, yes it will break...however, just pushing on the bridge should NOT do that. Somehow I doubt that it's real NiTi. You really gotta bend that stuff to cause it to break.

 

[SunnyD]

Any metal (crystalline structure) will break under the right stresses.

With that said, I'm still wearing my titanium frames (not memory) after about 5 years or so. Best set of frames I've ever had in my life.

 

[Capt Caveman]

For $30 lenses and frames, those frames have only a spec of titanium in them. Titanium is not cheap.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Holy old thread... yeah.

Well, um, update?

Got a new pair of memory titanium frames from Zenni (just the frames, not the lenses) and they're GREAT. They were definitely not the same frames that I got the first time that were supposedly memory titanium. I can bend then, twist them, and they pop right back into place. One thing that you should keep in mind though: Because they always bend back into place, it's hard to bend them into a shape that matches your face. There's a slight twist on the bridge, and it won't go away because it always bends back into place.

 

[nakedfrog]

I was wondering whether or not that particular piece was memory titanium, because my wife had the exact same thing happen to her pair.