Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/30

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Subject: [Leica] Pencil eraser cleaning
From: "Gary Todoroff" <datamaster@humboldt1.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:27:50 -0800

> 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. . .