Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/09/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for the versatile new word, Jayanand! MacGyver should adopt it.. ?howard > On Sep 10, 2022, at 10:25 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <lug at > leica-users.org> wrote: > > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information