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Author Topic: Denatured alcohol to clean port glass Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-07-2009 08:09 AM                     quote: For regular port glass... Windex. Regular, old Windex. NOT "Potpourri Scented!" NOT "Lemon Powered!" NOT "Environmentally Friendly!" Capital "W". Small "i". Small "n". Small "d". Small "e". Small "x". Windex! Plain, old, no-frills, blue and comes in a clear plastic bottle with red letters on the label! Windex! Costs $1.99 at the grocery store. Just plain, old WINDEX! HA! You must be related to Professor Harold Hill...  |  IP: Logged Bill Langfield Master Film Handler Posts: 280 From: Prospect, NSW, Australia Registered: Apr 2001 posted 09-07-2009 12:23 PM                        What Randy said and... I used to use PLAIN Windex and PLAIN Kleenex SOFT Tissues (both without all those horrid scents and whatever they put in stuff these days) I find newspaper and bathroom hand towel too rough and beleive over time it is scratching the glass. I always made sure I'd finished with a buff with fresh dry tissue. If out of either of those of both those items I used Metholated Spirits or the Lens and Newspaper or sink paper hand towls An oldie but goodie that has been repeat over and over here is the 'free' servettes from McD's or KFC. Normally I'd go do the ports on a session that did not many people in there. As soon as the credits started to roll I head into the cinema, wait for the last person to leave (but of course half the time you'd end up that damned one or two people who HAVE to stay until last frame has gone through before they leave.) Then clean the port(s) while the light from the credits was (hopefully still) coming through the port, that way you can eyeball how clean you got them. But gotta be careful not to be blinded by how bright the tissue can get even when it's just white credits on black rolling. And of course avoid looking straight down the lens - Doh! I hate coming to this this site and reading stuff here, I miss my days of working (retired - due to health issues). But I can't help myself and pop in for a bit of browse every few months. -B!  |  IP: Logged

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