[ColHut (Colin)]

I recently (belatedly and with great releluctance) cleaned my eyepieces. They were just too grotty. A couple of things.

1) even the pure isopropyl alcohol sometimes leaves tiny marks as it evaporates. One recomendation is to buff lightly with a lens cloth after breathing on the eyepiece. Do others have other/better ideas?
2) a largish flake (1/4 mm square flake of paint?) appeared between the couplets in the plossel. I carefully dissasembled and cleaned and removed, but now I have more tiny dust particles. Is there some way of de-staticing the lens so tiny particles dont adhere while cleaning?

cheers
Wol