Cracked/Disintegrated Old Green Dragon Eyes

[JynXx]

Jennifer wrote:

Alas! I don’t have any with that amber-gold color, I could only get you “sorta close” with an orange. If you want to match it you’ll probably have to get in touch with Tohickon.

Hi Jennifer! Thanks so much for taking time to look! I greatly appreciate it ♥ I’ll probably try Tohickon to get a match, as I’m really missing the amber/gold. Just scared to pry out the remaining cracked eye! LOL…

Melody wrote:

Yes, if they were glued in with white glue, soaking them with warm water is the way to do it.
It doesn’t look as though the actual glass eye is damaged, just the paint on the back, so the eyes are probably salvageable.
Unless your new glass eyes are made with a fired-on glass paint, don’t glue them back in with white glue touching the paint. It will eventually pull paint off of the glass. It will even pull off epoxy paint. We tried that!
(However If the eyes are painted with epoxy paint and glued in with epoxy, they seem to hold together. The experimental one I have is still good after 7 years.)
I don’t know about acrylic eyes. We’ve never used those.

Hi Ms. Melody! The pictures are of the dragon from before she was put in storage. Her eyes don’t look like that now 🙁 Thanks for the information regarding the types of glue! I didn’t know white glue could be so corrosive.. Would super-glue be okay? to use?

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[Linda]

I don’t know if this will help but I have a 1984 hatching dragon with the orange eyes. I don’t know what size the eyes are but I will give it to you to fix your mother if the eyes fit.

[Jennifer]

JynXx wrote:

Jennifer wrote:

Alas! I don’t have any with that amber-gold color, I could only get you “sorta close” with an orange. If you want to match it you’ll probably have to get in touch with Tohickon.

Hi Jennifer! Thanks so much for taking time to look! I greatly appreciate it ♥ I’ll probably try Tohickon to get a match, as I’m really missing the amber/gold. Just scared to pry out the remaining cracked eye! LOL…

Melody wrote:

Yes, if they were glued in with white glue, soaking them with warm water is the way to do it.
It doesn’t look as though the actual glass eye is damaged, just the paint on the back, so the eyes are probably salvageable.
Unless your new glass eyes are made with a fired-on glass paint, don’t glue them back in with white glue touching the paint. It will eventually pull paint off of the glass. It will even pull off epoxy paint. We tried that!
(However If the eyes are painted with epoxy paint and glued in with epoxy, they seem to hold together. The experimental one I have is still good after 7 years.)
I don’t know about acrylic eyes. We’ve never used those.

Hi Ms. Melody! The pictures are of the dragon from before she was put in storage. Her eyes don’t look like that now Thanks for the information regarding the types of glue! I didn’t know white glue could be so corrosive.. Would super-glue be okay? to use?

I don’t think it’s a case of the glue being corrosive at all, it’s the fact that over the years, these statues “breathe” a little bit. Tiny, tiny, tiny amounts of expanding and contracting due to the temperature and humidity. Because of the backing on these old eyes, sometimes the glue held them so rigidly in place that they couldn’t move properly, even those minuscule amounts, and so they cracked, or the color separated from the glass of the eye. To this end, superglue would be just as bad (if not worse).
Even the best glues that are flexible will become brittle over decades, so that’s why Windstone went with fired eyes instead of enameled.

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[Melody]

Hi Ms. Melody! The pictures are of the dragon from before she was put in storage. Her eyes don’t look like that now Thanks for the information regarding the types of glue! I didn’t know white glue could be so corrosive.. Would super-glue be okay? to use?

[/quote] We’ve never used super glue with painted eyes, so I don’t know what it would do. If your new eyes are made with fired glass paint, you can use any kind of glue. Glass fired eyes are bomb proof.
If they are acrylic eyes, ask the manufacturer what’s best to use… I have no idea!

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