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[filmscanners] SS4000 mirror cleaning
- To: lexa@www.lexa.ru
- Subject: [filmscanners] SS4000 mirror cleaning
- From: "HPA" <tom@historicphotoarchive.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:52:48 -0700
- In-reply-to: <200208140924.CAA26528@technicaladvantage.net>
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Camera repairman says: first blow off any dust possible. Next, flick off
any dust possible with VERY light strokes with a good brush (make sure the
brush does not have anything on it already)
The cleaning is accomplished with denatured alcohol. this is also known as
shellac thinner. IT IS NOT RUBBING ALCOHOL. This product is widely
available at paint and hardware stores.
Use a tissue that is wetted with the denatured alcohol. Using NO PRESSURE
WHATSOEVER, swipe the mirror with the alcohol soaked tissue. THE LESS THE
BETTER. do not rub the surface. Don't let this touch plastic parts, and
don't let it get behind the mirror.
this guy is the oldest living Leica factory trained repairman, or so he
says, and I believe him. He was trained as a camera repairman by the Army
during WW2. He owned a camera repair shop from the late 1940s until
recently, he is 83, and one of the most respected repairmen in the region.
tom robinson
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