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Dylan Gladstone
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Reged: 08/05/07
Posts: 955
Loc: Connecticut, USA
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Cleaning "Damage" Repaired!
08/08/08 10:53 AM
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Like an idiot I cleaned my new TMB 6mm Planetary eyepiece with my shirt. There was a blob on the lens that was visible when looking at the moon, and being impatient I just blew off the lens and wiped it with my shirt. It left what looked like little bright chips in the coatings. I thought for sure I'd scratched the coatings.
Someone suggested that the coatings probably weren't scratched and that a proper cleaning would fix it.
Last night I hunted down the bottle of rubbing alcohol and q-tips and did a proper cleaning as described on Televue's site and that someone was right! The coatings are perfect, not a dot or a smudge! (It was also pretty cool watching the psychedelic colors flow around the alcohol film under the q-tip.)
So coatings really are tougher than they're generally made out to be. But I've learned my lesson, I'll clean my optics properly from now on, and only when they really need it.
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Orion SkyView Pro 127mm Maksutov
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