Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> From: TEX WORKER> clifton > It seems to me in my somewhat neferious past I was told by someone who should > know that the best way to clean a lens was with a pencil eraser. I don't > recommend this per se, but if anyone else has heard let me know. It scares > the hell out of just thinking about it. > Since we are obviously a group who all use computers as well as Leicas, my own pencil eraser story sort of fits. Last week I was doing some preliminary systems design at the local police dept, when the sergeant asked if I could take a look at an ailing PC. It was halting occasionally and also displaying those wonderful Win95 blue screens of death if you breathed in or out. On a hunch I opened the case, and removed the memory simms. I pulled a pencil out of my nerd kit (pocket protector), buffed the simm contacts, and sagely informed my office observers, "This tool is why I get paid the big bucks." A week later the PC continues to work perfectly. They think I'm a genius. There is a God who answers prayer. Gary Todoroff PS - don't try this on your Leica lens. . .