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gwomack

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Wanting to get you guys' opinions on scope lens cleaning. I jumped off the deep end with a high end Meopta scope, have not yet got any kind of lens cleaning kit. What do ya'll recommend for not hurting the coating? It's funny how extra bucks makes you start being a little more careful!
 
I use a very, very mild mix of gentle dish soap and cold water, and apply it with my fingertip. When it's time to dry... use something very absorbent and blot, don't wipe.

Mike
 
Get yourself a little bottle of Zeiss lens cleaner. It works excellent. I use two appropriate lens cloths and the round end of a lens pen. First brush of any debris from the lens. Then spray a small dose of lens cleaner onto a lens cloth(not on the lens itself) and wipe lens with cloth. Then take your second lens cloth which is dry and finish wiping your lens until it is dry and clear. I am very fussy about my lens cleaning and this has worked excellent for me.
 
use a soft cloth and NEVER use paper towels or any paper products. remember that paper is made from trees and you wouldn't use a stick to clean your lens
 
Get canned air or a brush/blower for camera lenses. Get all the dust particles off the lens.
Fold a lens tissue in half, add a couple of drops of isopropyl alcohol to the tissue, and wipe the lens in a circular spiral motion from the center out to the edge.
 
I use the same thing I use for my eyeglasses. First I use the brush on the end of a Leupold Lens Pen to brush the dust off. Then use an alcohol based eye glass cleaner liquid, rubbing it on with my finger. Then I use my optics cloth.
 
If you stop by the Optical Dept at your local Wally World, they sell boxes of individual lens cleaners. Some carry Zeiss and some carry Baush & Lomb... For about $3 you can get the professional stuff and not worry about the lens..
 
The cotton ends of QTips are very abrasive. Metal parts exposed to moving cotton/cotton dust in cotton gins are made from abrasion-resistant steel, and it even chews that stuff up after a while.

I use paper towels to blot.

I should have said, as mentioned above, a good "blowing out" with a can of compressed air, and a gentle brushing with a natural-hair camera brush is my first step.

If you wash your hands thoroughly, and keep your nails off the glass, the skin of your fingertips won't damage the lens or coating....and it's easy to get into corners.

Once you've cleaned the lens with the soap solution, rinse with cold water.

Mike
 
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an alcohol based eye glass cleaner liquid



When I was maintaining microscopes, I asked the president of the microscope slaes/service company exactly what was in their lens solution. Isopropyl and some blue coloring solution. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
He suggested we just use straight alcohol.
 
Go over to U.S Optics and see what they recommend. It'll curl your hair. They are the folks that make those lousy? $3000.00 scopes. Night force used to have the same recommend. There scopes are cheap too.

I'm poor "white trash" so I use Sightrons an Nikons.

Best wishes, Bill
 
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