Excellent work, Gary! You are now assigned to summarize all complex
equipment maintenance threads.
;-)
Gary Edwards
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From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
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Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 6:57 PM
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Subject: [OM] Survey says...Was: Best way to clean OM-1N mirror
Thanks. Eight unique solutions were posted...see below...HEAVILY edited. I
don't know that we need to continue the thread. I certainly have a dilemma
in that I only have one mirror to work on. So, if you want to send me your
camera and mirror-I only need seven--I can conduct a test. ;>) Seriously,
if I can find a couple of junker SLR's *real cheap* in the pawn shops, etc.
I'll try out several of these methods. But for now I've got to wrap up
boocoo matters before heading West to Yosemite and Sequoia/Kings Canyon
Parks.
Oh, and thanks Bill Barber for the giraffe joke-it struck a chord in my
sense of humor.
Gary
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: I would probably try alcohol first.
I've used rubbing alcohol successfully on the later partially reflective
mirrors.
From: Donald Shedrick <shedridc@xxxxxxxxx>: Try acetone (prefferably
reagent grade). If you use alcohol it should be pure grade isopropyl
alcohol.
From: Joel Wilcox <jowilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> : Denatured alcohol is
better. Use a lens tissue and tweezers.
From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxxxx> : I've cleaned an OM mirror with
Windex and a Qtip and not leaving any little cotton fibers behind by
finishing off with a bit of loosely wadded-up lens tissue and a puff of
clean air. I've done the same thing using denatured alcohol.
From: "Gareth.J.Martin" <g.j.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: I use the very soft
brush on my lens pen and that seems to work fine.
From: Jim Brokaw <jbrokaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>: If you're going to clean a mirror,
flood it with fluid (I use 91 0sopropanol alcohol) using a wadded up piece
of plain white toilet tissue. Then using another wadded up piece of dry
toilet tissue, gently (*gently!*) swab up the liquid. This will leave a
lot of little tissue fibres in the mirror area. Gently (*gently!*) blow
these out with short puffs of canned air or from a squeeze blower.
From: Mark Dapoz <md@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: If the surface is really dirty, let it
soak a bit and then use something like a Q-tip to wipe it clean while
rotating the Q-tip. I find 99 0sopropyl alcohol gets the debris off the
mirror, and then I follow up with a wipe with acetone to give it that
sparkling look.
From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>: For removal of "debris" from the
mirror, I used a Post-it note - folded to give some stiffness, then dabbed
on the offending layer of dust. No dragging, no scratching, no residue.
And no ethanol.
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