lense cleaning?

[morten]

I need to clean off what appears to be a very fine paint mist over spray on a scope lens .
Can someone recomend how to do this safely without damaging the lense coating.
cheers Mort

[Model70]

Id try a lens pen, Allen make a cheap but good one for around $20. Or you could drop Antony from vortex a line and ask him.

[Jock]

Metho removes acrylic paint.

Don't know how it will affect a Scope.

[kickinback]

Get onto Antony at Vortex and get one of his lens cleaning kits. I got one when i bought my scope from him and itworks VERY well.

[morten]

thanks for your ideas fellas, my lens pen wouldn't budge it but I bought some lens cleaning stuff called Iso Pro from Dick Smiths (iso alchol) It worked like a charm!
cheers

[Knackers]

Steel wool, just gently though and then rub a bit of oil into it, wait NO thats for rust

[kickinback]

Steel wool, just gently though and then rub a bit of oil into it, wait NO thats for rust

Jeezus Knackers........ you scared the crap out of me then

[Trev]

Thanks Knackers, I just did the lenses of my NXS 12 - 42 AND NOW THEY ARE ALL SCRATCHED. WHAT OIL WAS I SUPPOSED TO USE. I used Valvoline, I bet I should have used Mobil 1.

[Knackers]

I used Valvoline, I bet I should have used Mobil 1.

love it, you've just given me an idea

[GriMo]

I used Valvoline, I bet I should have used Mobil 1.

love it, you've just given me an idea

I read that as vasoline, and for some reason it came across even more wrong then intended.

[Knackers]

I read that as vasoline, and for some reason it came across even more wrong then intended.

Talking about vaseline, twenty years ago there was a spate of vaselining's going on in the work car park. Many times you would go to get in the car and the door handle had vaseline smeared under it , shit that makes it hard to open and everything else a bloody mess. their other favorite was to smear the crap along the edge of your wiper blades real funny

[GriMo]

Oh the ideas you have given me