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lense cleaning?
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 10:38 pm
by 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
Re: lense cleaning?
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 12:37 am
by 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.
Re: lense cleaning?
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 6:18 pm
by Jock
Metho removes acrylic paint.
Don't know how it will affect a Scope.
Re: lense cleaning?
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 7:23 pm
by 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.
Re: lense cleaning?
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 8:42 pm
by 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

Re: lense cleaning?
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:44 pm
by Knackers
Steel wool, just gently though and then rub a bit of oil into it, wait NO thats for rust

Re: lense cleaning?
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 8:34 pm
by kickinback
Knackers wrote: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
Re: lense cleaning?
Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 11:17 am
by 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.
Re: lense cleaning?
Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 7:26 pm
by Knackers
I used Valvoline, I bet I should have used Mobil 1.

love it, you've just given me an idea

Re: lense cleaning?
Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 3:17 am
by GriMo
Knackers wrote: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.
Re: lense cleaning?
Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 10:27 pm
by 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
Re: lense cleaning?
Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 1:42 am
by GriMo