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[OM] Re: Cleaning contacts

Subject: [OM] Re: Cleaning contacts
From: "Timpe, Jim" <Jim.Timpe@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 08:31:23 -0800
In the lens opening of the camera body??  Erasure crumbs in the mirror
box doesn't sound like a fun proposition to me.

I'd stick with the solvents.

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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of John Hermanson
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 8:26 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Cleaning contacts



I'd go denatured alcohol, methanol or the like.  Light use of fresh 
pencil erasure could be good too.

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Joel Wilcox wrote:
> I've been thinking about Candace's problem with her E-330 and 
> thinking, as others posted, that the contacts might need a cleaning. I

> however have never cleaned anything that is part of the insides of an 
> E-thingie.  But I didn't think about the contacts.
> 
> I looked at contacts in the E-1 and they look brassy and shiny, but 
> certainly I can see a track across the middle.  The track looks a 
> little nickle-ish (this is on the lens, not in the camera), not black.

> But maybe I could shine them up a bit.  But how?  Pencil eraser? Spit 
> and a rag?  Denatured alcohol with a ROR chaser?
> 
> Joel W.
> 


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