Olafo
YOu might want to consider sending that to me. I can have itcleaned for US
12.00. Problem is cost of sending and returning to you.
Regards
Titoy
----- Original Message -----
From: Olaf Greve <o.greve@xxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 4:37 PM
Subject: RE: [OM] I Pulled a "Real Stupid"
> Hi Susan,
>
> I enjoyed the way you described the "events" (though the Coke spill was
> unfortunate in itself), and I'm glad your camera survived (and was
> reanimated by you) after all! :)
>
> Then, may I actually suggest that if a camera (or other piece of
electronic
> equipment) is soaked by whatever fluid, it's best NOT to turn it on
> immediately. The issue being, that the fluid will almost certainly cause a
> short SOMEWHERE in the electronics. Fortunately, electronics often don't
> directly go down the drain when shorted, but still, it can easily leave
the
> electronics a "total loss"...
>
> Then, I believe my most stupid OM related thing was my "brilliant" way of
> cleaning the fungus out of my 300/4.5 (which Brian Huber very
inexpensively
> obtained for me because of the fungus). Indeed, here I was thinking the
> fungus was at the top of the 2nd element from the front, and would be easy
> enough to clean it, right? WRONG! With some difficulty (and advice from
the
> list) I opened the lens from the front, let the first element drop out to
> reach the fungus, but alas, it wasn't there! Now it looked like it was on
> the bottom of the 2nd element, so I proceeded and removed that one too.
Was
> the fungus reachable now? No way! It now looked like it was either between
> the 3rd and 4th element, or on the bottom of the 4th element, but... no
way
> to proceed working from the front, and seemingly the lens has been cleaned
> before, after which the two halves were glued together, so I couldn't
easily
> work my way to the bottom of the 4th element by disassembling the lens.
> Annoyed that I couldn't reach the fungus, I re-assembled the lens, and
there
> you go... I wasn't careful enough when putting the 2nd element back in. It
> slipped, and it got chipped... AAAAARGH! Now there was this little chunk
of
> glass in the lens! :( I took it out, re-assembled the rest of the lens,
and
> noticed that I had miserably failed in my cleaning attempt: fungus still
> there, 2nd element damaged and (inevitably) more dust had made its way
into
> the lens than before my "repair" session...
>
> The lens stayed like this for a long time (fortunately the damage didn't
> seem to affect image quality visibly), until I obtained a replacement
> element (with the excellent help of Patrick Johnson). This time I had
> learned my lesson and let Jaap Korten put it in. The lens is now in the
same
> state as it was when I bought it (i.e. with a little bit of fungus, but
> without the element damage and with less dust than after my "repairs"), so
> I'll leave it like that.
>
> I guess it's best to leave some repairs up to the professionals...:)
>
> Cheers!
> Olafo
>
>
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