Bringing this back on-topic, I bought a user condition OM-2n from Tom
Scales on E*ay a couple of years ago. I presume it was a camera he
got in a large lot on E*ay where it was the lenses he was interested in.
The camera was pretty dingy, but had no major dings. I spent the next
two or three weeks going over it with alcohol-moistened cotton swabs -
again and again and again until the swabs stopped coming away brown.
In the end, the camera looked decent.
Now I'm not complaining, Tom. I got what I bargained for, and it was
a good bargain. When your ad said it was perfect working order, I knew
it would be. In fact, two years later it is still working perfectly
and I haven't yet had it overhauled.
But I cringe thinking, given the amount of brown gunge I cleaned off
the exterior surfaces, what the innards must look like.
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