Re: [Leica] wtb-wts: underwear cleaning topic

["Bryan Caldwell" <bcaldwell@softcom.net>]

Ted,

My apologies if I said that the idea of using underwear to clean a lens was
not a valid and interesting topic. What I should have said is that 90% of
the traffic commenting on using underwear in such a fashion was less
valuable or less interesting to me than FS posts. However, I would NOT
propose limits on underwear discussions - or anything else. My delete key
works perfectly.

Anyone who has followed my opinions on this know that I'm for anything,
anytime on the LUG. I think that the best way to deal with any post you
don't like, or in which you're not interested,  is to ignore it. What
happens on the LUG is that people blast away at each other and, only after
getting their own two cents in, complain that a topic should be taken off
line.

Nothing shuts someone up quicker than the lack of an audience.


Bryan


- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@islandnet.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 1999 6:48 AM
Subject: [Leica] wtb-wts: underwear cleaning topic


> >And this is great or it's not - that's not essentially the point.  ON
> >TOPIC? - Leica and SUBJECTS! Examples have been summed up>>>> the
> >advantages of underwear as a lens cleaner" >>>>>>
>
> Question ladies & gentleman.
>
> Am I reading several of the posts correctly in that some fined the "topic
> of underwear" as a cleaing material for your Leica glass of no use as a
> Leica topic?"
>
> Recently I've noticed "degrogatory negative" comments or leaning in that
> direction, that "underwear cleaning cloth" is of no interest in regard as
a
> Leica subject and merely useless information. On the contrary, it's very
> much on topic as we all clean lenses at some time, so why not learn a
> method that is economical, easy on the lens surface and replaceable at no
> cost?
>
> Back ground for those who find it merely a "nonsense space waste" topic
and
> would prefer to know how many screws holds the lens in place.
>
> The underwear cleaning cloth was derived from 40 years experience of
buying
> and discarding expensive cleaning clothes to clean my Leica glass, it was
> offered in good faith to a question posted, "How do people safely clean
> their lenses and with what material?"
>
> I offered a safe method developed over 40 years of using Leica gear and
> keeping the lenses clean with an economically "free best cleaning cloth"
> one can use.
>
> It isn't some "frivilous nonsense" as someone pointed out. Which would you
> rather use, an expensive "compound impregnated cloth of questionable
> value?" or a free piece of very soft cloth you've been preparing for
> sometime?
>
> I realize and accept it has been a "fun topic" for several years as it
> should be, however some have taken the advice seriously, "a safe way to
> clean valuable Leica lenses!" I mean if it's soft and easy on your butt
why
> wouldn't it be so for your lens?:)
>
> So to you who think this is wasted information, so be it, that's your
> problem, but you might take heed in 40 years of testing/using that it
works
> extremely well....plus it's free! And on topic.
>
> ted
>
> Ted Grant
> This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler.
> http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
>
>