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| Thread ID: 27719 | 2002-11-29 08:36:00 | Cleaning CD-Writer lense | Sant (681) | Press F1 |
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| 102399 | 2002-12-02 01:11:00 | If you have a brush-type cleaner and it has a little bottle of liquid with which to wet the brush, that's isopropyl alcohol. Some of the cheapest brush cleaners can lose the little hairs ... I suppose they could stay on the lens (especially if it has any static charge) and make things worse. :D IPA is not recommended for some camera lenses --- basically because it can destroy (dissolve) some anti-reflection coatings. The solvent to avoid is methanol (either pure or "meths"). That gives some clear plastics a "frosted" appearance. :-( Some "rubbbing alcohols" are a mixture of IPA and ethanol or methanol ... the only isopropyl to use on any plastic is pure IPA. |
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| 102400 | 2002-12-02 01:16:00 | I was told by an electronics tech to never use alchohol either. He always uses a cotton bud and his own saliva! Spit on it! | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 102401 | 2002-12-02 01:16:00 | Spit on the cotton bud not the lense itself! | CYaBro (73) | ||
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