Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I use ROR (Residual Oil Remover) to clean my specs. I do not use it to clean my lenses: these get cleaned by what I have at hand, generally a microfiber cloth once I have knocked the most of the tortoise turds off the elements, but that is a tale for a different day and I've never had the joy of Ted's experience at being at the wrong moment at the wrong end of a cow. Cows are synapsids, as are us humans, and we enjoy sphincter control. Anapsids (turtles and tortoises) and Diapsids (crocodiles, lizards and snakes, and archosaurs - dinosaurs, including birds) do not. I can foregive my Sulcata tortoise for occasionally squirting at me. But that cow which Ted such a job! Wow, that was a synapsid and did have sphincter control! But I digress and, in any event, Ted has since sold the gear to some lucky fellow on the LUG ... uh, I hope he DID tell you the story? Eight years or so back, there was a fellow on the LUG hawking a rival brand of lens cleaner to ROR. Does anyone recall who this was or what the cleaner might have been? It seems to have dropped off the market even more rapidly than did the Leica SLR cameras. In 1969, I picked up as a promo a "British Buttner" pipe reamer. This broke last evening, after 38 years of quite creditable use. I went on the 'Net this evening and found that this was both an item of antiquarian interest -- a number were available from antique stores for $US 80 and the like -- and of smoking interest: it turns out that this item has been in continuous production since 1945, and I paid $US 12.90 for a "British-made" replacement. 62 years in production is impressive, though the Zeiss 8x, 21mm TURMON folding monocular still takes the cake, having been produced without interruption since 1921. Take that, Model T! Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!