Christian,

I have pulled off my corrector to clean it and to do minor improvements
to the secondary holder. Removing and replacing the secondary,
carefully, has had no ill effects on my scope.

However, I caution you not to use air from an air compressor, even from
a distance. Unless your compressor has a very sophisticated water
vapor, oil droplet, and dust filter system, you are likely to spray
under high pressure water, dirt and oil onto your primary and do more
harm than good. Use only 'canned air' made for cleaning optics in
conjunction with a soft brush explicity made for cleaning fine optics -
use the brush only if the particle is not removed by the air. You can
obtain these products from most fine camera stores.

Randy Marsden



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Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 12:10 PM
Subject: [M]: RE: Re: Re: Cleaning the Inside of the LX200


Well, I read through the archives and I am not sure what the terrible
consequences that everyone is warning me about can be. Can someone
please give me some concrete issues?

It seems that, as long as you don't grab a sledgehammer and pound it
because it won't come off, it has marks for aligning and, if you treat
it nicely, which in my case it would just be blowing the primary and
secondary with my compressor from a distance until the couple of
particles come off, I shouldn't even have to re-collimate.

What gives? Is there stuff that's not in the archives that I should be
scared of?

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