Hi Mark,
Thanks for your advise.
I just had a closer look at the mirror housing and must agree with you. It does
look very fragile. However, a bit of canned air did remove most of the dust
particles and some lens cleaning fluid removed the dirt from the outer lens
surface. I think it can be used now.
Best regards
Bernd
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Dapoz" <md@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 10:08 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Saturday's Fang
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Bernd Moeller wrote:
>
> > All items look more or less used; in particular the mirror housing is full
> > of dust. I think that careful cleaning will do the job.
>
> I would advise against cleaning the mirror housing yourself. The half mirror
> that is in there is VERY fragile, it's only about 1mm thick and is extremely
> easily scratched. A proper cleaning will also require the disassembly of
> the housing box. If compressed air isn't enough to get rid of the dust,
> take to it someone who knows how to clean such things.
> -mark
>
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