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     Mareklew Tinkerer Username: Mareklew Post Number: 4 Registered: 03-2010 Rating: N/A |
It much depends on yarn used. From personal experience: pay attention and avoid anything with synthetic component in it. It may state "pure wool/cotton/whatever" on the front and "40% stretch/acrylic/plastic" on the back. Natural fiber is indifferent to most solvents and oils used in camera cleaning, so you just have to take care of the annoying lint (if any). Some synthetic fibers will react, or dissolve and redeposit a residue if not thoroughly flushed. I have not had this problem in a camera, but in some other optical instrument where somebody tried adding light "baffles" made of such thread. It worked well till some solvent fumes turned it to goo-sticky mess. Marek |