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Finnegan
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Username: Finnegan
Post Number: 162
Registered: 09-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 12, 2012 - 10:44 am: | 
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I remember someone somewhere mentioned long ago how they put some instant glue on a messed up lens and, once it dried, the instant glue peeled off taking the dirt along with it resulting in a clean glass. Does anyone know of this method? Theoretically the glue gets into the molecular structure of the dirt/haze/fog/fungus/etc.
Aside from that I remember someone years ago talking about a lens cleaner that was applied and peeled off. Thought it was ROR but it wasn't.
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Waynemel
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Username: Waynemel
Post Number: 168
Registered: 08-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 12, 2012 - 02:19 pm: |
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What exactly do you mean by "instant glue"? |
Finnegan
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Username: Finnegan
Post Number: 163
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 12, 2012 - 07:38 pm: |
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cyano acrylate aka the tv ad of the construction worker hanging on to his hard hat and being lifted in the air because his hard hat had been super glued to the beam aka the stuff that glues human flesh together. |
Waynemel
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Username: Waynemel
Post Number: 170
Registered: 08-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 12, 2012 - 08:45 pm: |
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That's what I thought.
I don't know if the method you described would work, but I do know that using that type of glue around cameras is generally a bad idea. If I understand correctly, over time the glue off-gasses and will deposit a permanent haze on any glass surface nearby.
I suppose it could work to remove contaminents from a lens, but one would have to be very careful to remove all traces of the glue. |
Hanskerensky
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Username: Hanskerensky
Post Number: 188
Registered: 05-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, May 13, 2012 - 11:57 pm: |
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Why don't you try that instant glue method out first on an old throw-away lens (with coating) ?
I have seen discoloration of plastics almost instantly after applying Cyano acrylate glue, clearly coming from its fumes. |
Glenn
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Username: Glenn
Post Number: 996
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, May 14, 2012 - 06:04 pm: |
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I do not know who started this ridiculous story but it is utter crap!! Anybody with a modicum of knowledge, on the chemistry of cyano acrylate adhesives, will know where to put the 'working at molecular levels' and 'peeled off' comments when it comes to lens cleaning.
There are specialised glass and optical cleaners that dry to a thick pliable coating that just pulls off; however, I have never thought they offered any better cleaning than lens brush, blower, lens tissue (used and prepared properly) and distilled water plus a drop of detergent. |
Br1078lum
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Username: Br1078lum
Post Number: 308
Registered: 11-2010
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, May 14, 2012 - 10:37 pm: |
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Well, now I think I know what's on the lens of an Agfa Super Silette I got. Nothing seems to cut it. Since it's ruined already, I'll try peeling it off, but don't hold much hope for the lens. The stories that people start on the internet, thinking it's great fun to have someone ruin their possesions.
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Finnegan
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Username: Finnegan
Post Number: 164
Registered: 09-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 10:03 am: |
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Well, it would have been courteous of Glenn to share his knowledge of brand names of the "specialized glass and optical cleaners that dry to a thick pliable coating that just pulls off" since it was the information I was after.
Br1078: if what you are facing is really instant glue it can be removed with nail polish remover. I am facing a similar situation with the rear center of a Kodak Anastigmat which look like etched coated except it is an uncoated lens. Nothing has made it clean off and it is, after all, just glass. How could anything adhere to glass that tightly? Ok, I am thinking now it is the balsam glue spilled/seeped out onto the glass somehow. Try using some balsam glue remover on your lens. It might work. |
Br1078lum
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Username: Br1078lum
Post Number: 310
Registered: 11-2010
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 07:03 pm: |
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I thought about that, Finnegan. Just haven't stopped in the cosmetics section yet.
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Glenn
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Username: Glenn
Post Number: 997
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 04:06 am: |
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I get fed up of providing information when a simple Google search would have answered the original query!
The original product was/is 'OptiClean' which seems to have been still available in late 2010, early 2011.
The professional products are here -
http://www.photoniccleaning.com/?page_id=28.
For those wanting to expand the list - Google search is for 'Peel off lens cleaners' |
Paul_ron
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Username: Paul_ron
Post Number: 284
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 04:49 pm: |
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The red stuff is coligen, once sold in surgical supply n drug stores. I can't seem to find it locally anymore perhaps due to low demand.
It is very popular with astronomers to clean their telescope optics n works very well. |
Fallisphoto
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Username: Fallisphoto
Post Number: 262
Registered: 09-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 27, 2012 - 08:48 am: |
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DON'T DO IT! This is one that belongs with the "how to clean a focusing screen with a hard toothbrush and rubbing alcohol" and "how to clean a soft-coated lens with ammonia and a lens cloth" posts. Any of these things will ruin a camera. There was a post here, a few years back, about a guy who glued something or other inside his Olympus XA with super glue and the fingerprints on everything he had touched inside the camera, including the rear lens element, turned white. It wouldn't clean off, so he resorted to acetone. Turns out the entire camera was soluable in acetone. It was an all-around disaster. Superglue shouldn't even be in the same room with a camera. |
