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Old 07-25-2011, 08:26 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by NoBozo View Post
Using alcohol is a good first try on any cleaning job. I always try the least aggressive method FIRST..and then progress to more aggressive. However: I know from 9 years of experience in the Navy, maintaining Navy Optics, we used acetone.

Alcohol is mostly water..and will leave watermarks. Yes it cleans.....Kinda....but it leaves watermarks on the glass and will not take serious stains off the glass. NB
Hi N.B.;

I am pretty familiar with acetone since I am in the glass business and use it quite regularly for degreasing and cleaning and nothing compares to it for this. I am just skeptical about using it on the sensor mirrors.

Thanks!

dan
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