Safety glasses/guards

[egaParticipant @ega]

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 11/10/2015 11:04:44:

I have found that one of the best washes for this, and any other optics, is a weak solution of "alberto balsam, tea tree tingle" Hair Shampoo …

Thanks for the tip – I picked up a bottle of this on a recent supermarket run. Initial results are promising.

I recall upsetting the optician by mentioning using washing up liquid for this and imagine that modern dish washer chemicals would be even more exciting.

[Cornish JackParticipant @cornishjack]

Back in the days when M E Exhibition was held in Seymour Hall and even when it moved to Olympia, there was a stall run by a chap who looked like the Colonel Saunders character – Grey goatee beard etc. He had a boiling kettle on the go and used to demonstrate by putting your glasses in the steam and showing them obscured and then placed a minute amount of his Clersite(?) paste on the lenses and used finger and thumb to rub it into the glass. Finally polished off with Kleenex tissue and Hey Presto!! no steaming up when held over the kettle spout, and the clarity of vision was remarkable!. Very impressive and I bought a pot of same and used it for some years – always effective. Can't find the product any more – shame. His 'spiel' was that the polish was removing the microscopic traces of oil which collected on the glass from the atmosphere and your skin. I suspect that the mix was jeweller's rouge plus soft soap but have not tried to resurrect it.

rgds

Bill

[egaParticipant @ega]

Yes, it was Clersite and the product was pink in colour. Soft soap or no, it seemed to work and was also recommended for preventing windscreens misting up.

[michael mParticipant @michaelm]

Some two years ago I purchased what may be the same product, albeit under a different name, from an ME exhibition. I was initially sceptical but the gentleman selling, (not a colonel Sanders look-a-like) demonstrated the product on my own specs and I was suffiently impressed to buy a jar. It works very effectively and in addition it's proven his claim that it's far more cost effective than buying boxes of spectacle wipes. I still have plenty left. It's a very pale yellow colour and is called "Sparklebright"

**LINK**

Michael

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

I would be cautious of using anything other than lens wipes on my glasses, having suffered coating breakdown several times

Neil

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