Using Censor Cleaner as a Lens Cleaner
Dec 14, 2017 07:41:22 #
Bugfan
Loc: Toronto, Canada
BHC wrote:
WIKI:
“Lense is accepted as an alternative spelling by Webster's Third New International Dictionary, but proscribed as a misspelling by Garner's Modern American Usage, Paul Brians’ Common Errors in English Usage, Robert Hartwell Fiske's Dictionary of Unendurable English and others.”
I’ll stick with Webster!
“Lense is accepted as an alternative spelling by Webster's Third New International Dictionary, but proscribed as a misspelling by Garner's Modern American Usage, Paul Brians’ Common Errors in English Usage, Robert Hartwell Fiske's Dictionary of Unendurable English and others.”
I’ll stick with Webster!
English has its roots in England so Oxford, not Webster, is usually the authority when it comes to spelling and such. In Canada we tend to use Oxford though of course we have many American dictionaries too. Living in the middle, between England and the USA we tend to often accept both versions of a word and we don't make a big fuss about it. Language is an evolutionary thing and is often dependent on the culture that has adopted it.
One thing I've always observed when it comes to American English is that it is the language for those who do not like to write or perhaps for those who find it difficult to spell. We say colour, you say color, we say cheque you say check and so forth. I guess by chopping a letter here and there from your words saves you energy when typing and it makes the spelling easier to remember.
Dec 14, 2017 08:19:16 #
BHC wrote:
Is the denatured alcohol in lens cleaners full strength or diluted with distilled water?
I think, in lens cleaner, it is diluted, however I am not sure what is used. If water, it might not be water only. I would think that "pure" (95%) denatured alcohol, which is used a solvent for glue, oil and other materials might be risky to use on lenses. Partly I am concerned because I am not sure what is in the other 5%. Some of the additives make it indigestible. However, different manufactures use different additives. It may be possible that one of those additives might cause problems on a lens. Then again maybe not. However, the per-use cost of purpose made lens cleaner is so low as to make the savings not worth the risk.
Keep in mind that I do refill my wife's nail polish remover bottle from a gallon jug of acetone I keep in the shop. I mean, what they charge for tiny bottle of remover, now THAT is insane!
Dec 15, 2017 02:37:31 #
dsmeltz wrote:
I think, in lens cleaner, it is diluted, however I... (show quote)
ROFL! I used to do the same thing for my first wife, although I used either a quart or a pint can (small garage). I do know that, at one time, rubbing alcohol was 5% glycerin. What a mess that made on my binoculars! You could buy rubbing alcohol marked “without glycerin) if you knew which stores carried it.
Dec 15, 2017 09:38:45 #
Zeiss is 25.1 % Isopropyl alcohol. This is from the official OHSA materiel safety data sheet. So each to their own. I'll go to Walmart...
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