[Leica] Spider smear update

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Jugaad is a staple of all socialist/communist economies where everything is
always in short supply, and ingenious and permanent band aid solutions are
an inescapable part of life.

It is actually a Hindi term, and you cannot take a walk anywhere in India
without seeing hundreds of examples all around you.

For those who wish to know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad

Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 5:37 AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> That's good news Howard, and, Jayanand, I'd never heard of the word
> "jugaad" and had to look it up.
> It's a great word for all those jury rigged repair improvisations that I
> use around the house. My wife always wonders where the clothes pegs go.
> Now if I could only pronounce it properly...
>
> Douglas
>
> On 10/09/2022 17:46, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote:
> > Excellent.
> >
> > Jugaad in all its glory!
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> >> On 10-Sep-2022, at 21:45, Howard L Ritter Jr via LUG <
> lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> So here’s how the Spider Saga has played out.
> >>
> >> I bought a sensor-cleaning kit from Amazon consisting of individually
> hermetically-sealed-in-a-clean-room swabs that look like little solid
> brooms as wide as the height of a FF sensor plus a dropper bottle of
> cosmically pure water that costs more per ml than Lagavullin. (The kit’s
> from Canada, so it starts out with street cred.) But I thought that
> something more than water would do a better job of getting this organic
> crud off. The lens wipes made by Zeiss are just right for this job. They’re
> little rectangles of folded-up lintfree paper saturated with isopropyl
> alcohol, and their folded size is almost exactly the same as that of the
> sensor, the mirror, and the focusing screen.
> >>
> >> To start, I used the air bulb to blow the desiccated spider body and
> the one visible leg out. Then I placed one of the folded wipes on the
> sensor and let it sit for about a minute, gently moving it around. I
> removed it with tweezers, then used the lens swab moistened with water to
> wipe the residue off. I repeated the process with water alone and the
> sensor cleaned up very nicely.
> >>
> >> Then I noticed a smear on the focusing screen, apparently where the
> critter had been mashed against it when the mirror cycled, so I turned the
> camera upside down and put a folded-up wipe on the focusing screen and
> locked the mirror up to hold the wipe between the two. I let that sit for a
> minute and then lowered the mirror again. I finished off with water and a
> fresh sensor swab on both the screen and the mirror, and everything looks
> factory fresh now.
> >>
> >> With a little trepidation, I fired the shutter a few times to see
> whether there was spider-stuff on the curtain that would rub off on the
> sensor again, likely necessitating a trip to Nikon. Happy to say, didn’t
> happen.
> >>
> >> Plus, now I have 8 remaining swabs and most of a bottle of Lagavullin
> water for the next time the sensor gets dirty. I love happy endings!
> >>
> >> —howard
> >>
> >>
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