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Old 07-03-2011, 11:25 AM
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Originally Posted by AG Hybrid View Post
I was told the best approach to cleaning eyepieces was to do everything you can to not let them get dirty. Of course, we don't live in a perfect world so expecting your eyepieces to stay clean is not realistic.
It's almost impossible to keep eyelash oils away from short eye relief eyepieces; if body oils aren't cleaned off the coatings the eyepiece will eventually become unuseable due to opacity of the coating.

I have an old Meade Research Grade Ortho in this condition; sometime when I'm feeling patient I'll disassemble it and try to strip the coating from the top lens to see if it can be rendered useable again.
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