I'm experimenting with making my own rubber sleeves for the metal earpieces by repurposing rubber or vinyl adhesive weather stripping. To get them onto your glasses temple/ear pieces, cut off a section the desired length. Squeeze a couple of drops of dish washing or liquid hand soap into the hole at the end of the rubber tube and then slip it over your earpiece arm and cut off at other end.
Also you can make a "loop" at the end by cutting a small hole into the rubber tube about 2 inches from the end. Push out the earpiece, loop the dangling rubber "tail" around and reinsert it over the ear piece tip again. You may need a drop of dish soap to slide on.
Rubber weather stripping tubes usually come in both black or white and one side has a strip of wax paper covering the adhesive. The tricky part seems to be how to get rid of that sticky adhesive before wearing them. I think Goo Gone type solvents can do it. Or if you don't have hair, then just let the oil on your skin get at it! In the meantime, the sticky stuff may help hold your glasses tight to your temples!
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Why re-invent the wheel?
Go to Home Depot or Home Hardware and get some Loctite Color Guard or Dipit Liquid rubber. Both come in many colors and also in black, and are a liquid rubber made for tool handles. They are extremely tough and made for tools, that get heavy and daily use in an industrial environment. I have some tools, that I dipped in the 80's, with the handles still soft and grippy.
All you do is wipe oil and grease off the tools, and dip the handle into the can, then hang the tool up for an hour.You can do the same with the arms of your glasses.
The Loctite Color Guard is, of course, dishwasher and industrial washer proof. DipIt is probably the same, just a different name on the can. Just look which product is sold closer to home. Both have good sites with store locators.
People with ARTHRITIS or hand injuries:
Dip the handles of anything from can openers, ladles, wooden spoons, even pens into Color Guard, to get a soft but very grippy handle, that you can grasp firmly without having to use painful force.
Have FUN!
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