I might add a stiff brush (toothbrush) to the took kit, and a large helping of patience... fool with it then let it sit for a few hours then fool with it then sit some more. Regards, Bob S.
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > I would try to remove the cyanoacrylite with a small knife before resorting > to acetone. Super glue doesn't always bond well. If that failed, I might try > acetone, but I certainly wouldn't wet the camera. I would apply it sparingly > with a fine brush, all the while working the glue with the knife. > Paul > On Feb 15, 2009, at 5:23 AM, Bob W wrote: > >> Obviously nobody would be so stupid as to do a thing like this, but let's >> just suppose that you had a friend - yea, let's say a friend, that's good >> - >> who was a complete dork and accidentally dripped cyanoacrylate superglue >> onto the OK button at the back of his camera (it could, theoretically >> speaking and only in your imagination - this could never happen in the >> real >> world - be an Olympus E-1), such that the button became jammed. >> >> If said imaginary but stupid friend were to try and remove the superglue >> using acetone, what would (theoretically) be the effect on the body seals >> and possibly on the electronics, plastics, etc of this non-existent but >> theoretically possible camera? >> >> In other words, this friend of Homeric dumbness - would he be about to >> destroy the rest of his camera if he were to take this next, apparently >> obvious (but he is stupid, remember), step? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Bob (Hey, don't look at me! You think I could be that stupid?) >> >> >> >> "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails >> of the last priest" >> --- Diderot >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
