On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 11:22:01PM +0200, Vic Mortelmans wrote.. > Thanks for the warning! I'm always in doubt which product is suitable to > perfrom cleaning jobs on certain material and for which kind of dirt. > > I have at my disposal (in order or aggresiveness?): > > - distilled water > - lighter fluid > - alcohol (95%)
Ethanol or ? Keep in mind that denatured alcohol either contains methanol (bad for plastics) or > - vinegar acid (diluted for household use) Useless for cameras. > - aceton If you have very dirty *metal-only* parts this works wonders. Keep it far away from plastics. > - ammoniak (concentrated) Never used that on cameras. > What should I use (or should certainly not use) to > > - remove oil from metal parts (lighter fluid - got that :-)) "wasbenzine" as we call it in NL works fine (is that the same name in Belgium?) > - remove grease from metal parts (same??) Yup. > - remove oil/grease from coated lenses Eh... I use ethanol for those, but better not get grease on the glass to start with :-) > - clean up metal body (painted or chrome) > - clean up plastic body > - clean up leatherette > - clean up rubber parts I use plain pure ethanol for these 4, works fine sofar. > Groeten, > > Vic > > Wilko Bulte schreef: > > > Aceton.. ouch... Not a very good idea to use that. Aceton is too > > agressive in general for this kind of work. Use lighter fluid > > or something similar. Aceton will ruin plastic parts etc. > > > > Wilko > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net --- end of quoted text --- -- Wilko -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
