[Leica] Spider smear update

[Howard L Ritter Jr]

Thanks for the versatile new word, Jayanand! MacGyver should adopt it..

—howard

> On Sep 10, 2022, at 10:25 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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