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  • Always Bring Duct Tape

    My pre-trip checklist now includes “Duct Tape”, so, when the tiny screw holding my sunglasses together went spung and dropped the lens on the parking lot gravel, I was prepared:

    Sunglasses - duct tape FTW
    Sunglasses – duct tape FTW

    I continued the mission in full-frontal Harry Potter mode.

    Fortunately, it’s a captive screw and returned home with us. Back in the Basement Laboratory, with a Philips 00 screwdriver and threadlocker at hand, the repair was no big deal:

    Sunglasses - loose lens screw
    Sunglasses – loose lens screw

    You’re looking at the screw head, believe it or not.

    And, no, I’m not packing a Philips 00 screwdriver on our next trip.