Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/09/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jugaad is a staple of all socialist/communist economies where everything is always in short supply, and ingenious and permanent band aid solutions are an inescapable part of life. It is actually a Hindi term, and you cannot take a walk anywhere in India without seeing hundreds of examples all around you. For those who wish to know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad Cheers Jayanand On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 5:37 AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > That's good news Howard, and, Jayanand, I'd never heard of the word > "jugaad" and had to look it up. > It's a great word for all those jury rigged repair improvisations that I > use around the house. My wife always wonders where the clothes pegs go. > Now if I could only pronounce it properly... > > Douglas > > On 10/09/2022 17:46, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote: > > Excellent. > > > > Jugaad in all its glory! > > > > Cheers > > Jayanand > > > > Sent from my iPad > > > >> On 10-Sep-2022, at 21:45, Howard L Ritter Jr via LUG < > lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > >> > >> ?So here?s how the Spider Saga has played out. > >> > >> I bought a sensor-cleaning kit from Amazon consisting of individually > hermetically-sealed-in-a-clean-room swabs that look like little solid > brooms as wide as the height of a FF sensor plus a dropper bottle of > cosmically pure water that costs more per ml than Lagavullin. (The kit?s > from Canada, so it starts out with street cred.) But I thought that > something more than water would do a better job of getting this organic > crud off. The lens wipes made by Zeiss are just right for this job. They?re > little rectangles of folded-up lintfree paper saturated with isopropyl > alcohol, and their folded size is almost exactly the same as that of the > sensor, the mirror, and the focusing screen. > >> > >> To start, I used the air bulb to blow the desiccated spider body and > the one visible leg out. Then I placed one of the folded wipes on the > sensor and let it sit for about a minute, gently moving it around. I > removed it with tweezers, then used the lens swab moistened with water to > wipe the residue off. I repeated the process with water alone and the > sensor cleaned up very nicely. > >> > >> Then I noticed a smear on the focusing screen, apparently where the > critter had been mashed against it when the mirror cycled, so I turned the > camera upside down and put a folded-up wipe on the focusing screen and > locked the mirror up to hold the wipe between the two. I let that sit for a > minute and then lowered the mirror again. I finished off with water and a > fresh sensor swab on both the screen and the mirror, and everything looks > factory fresh now. > >> > >> With a little trepidation, I fired the shutter a few times to see > whether there was spider-stuff on the curtain that would rub off on the > sensor again, likely necessitating a trip to Nikon. Happy to say, didn?t > happen. > >> > >> Plus, now I have 8 remaining swabs and most of a bottle of Lagavullin > water for the next time the sensor gets dirty. I love happy endings! > >> > >> ?howard > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >