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Posted by Chad Smith (Member # 2130) on 05-13-2005, 01:24 AM:

Has anybody else ever had film guard get inside of a lens? Just curious.

[ 05-14-2005, 01:00 AM: Message edited by: Joe Redifer ]

Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 05-13-2005, 03:04 AM:

No, never heard that one. Only thing I can think of how one can get FG in one is that the bottle leaked and a lens was below the bottle and soaked the end of the lens with it. It this what happened, on the reason of your question?

Fill us in on your reasoning for this question and maybe we can help you on this one (even though when any kind of moisture enters into a lens, it's time for the lens to head to the shop for disassembly, cleaning, and reassembly-don't try this yourself if you don't know what you're doing for sure).

Little hint: this topic title is a borderline "teaser" topic. since the topic has no definite subject matter. Maybe change the topic to "fluid leakage in lenses", or something similar.

thx-Monte

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 05-13-2005, 12:14 PM:

It may just be that you are applying much too much FilmGuard to the print? Are you seeing tiny droplets on the back element of the lens, or just an oily haze? Sometimes a really oily print (literally dripping oil) could have some vaporized oil or slight splatter build up on the lens.

Posted by Kyle McTague (Member # 2673) on 05-13-2005, 03:34 PM:

It actually got onto the front element of the lens. I came into work last week, and chad told me about this and my immediate response was "how the hell did you accomplish that?" It took forever to get off of the outside and then we noticed that there's also some inside. I've considered taking him out back and beating him with a hose but we'll see....

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 05-13-2005, 07:14 PM:

In the grand spirit of Manny, I don't mean to sound like an insensitive prick, but...

I just have to ask...HOW did you accomplish this? Seriously, was one of your guys spraying the lens with it thinking it was lens cleaner or something? That bottle should've never come anywhere near a projector in the first place. Some refresher training is probably in order.

Posted by Chad Smith (Member # 2130) on 05-13-2005, 08:46 PM:

It looked like there was filmguard on the underside of the film cleaner and it ran down and dripped onto the lens turret and then ran down onto the front of the scope lens. That's all I could gather, but I think we're going to do a repair/exchange because upon further inspection there's a bubble in the lens, which is even more exciting.

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 05-14-2005, 12:27 AM:

Hmmmm, somebody didn't read the instructions that came with the FilmGuard. Nowhere in there did it say to saturate the media pads with the cleaner mounted on the projector.

At least now you know to enforce the "saturate, then mount" policy. [Cool]

Posted by Jason Miller (Member # 2341) on 05-14-2005, 10:43 PM:

quote: Brad Miller
the "saturate, then mount" policy.

did anybody else laugh at that?

Posted by Brad Allen (Member # 470) on 05-15-2005, 12:22 AM:

I always thought it was mount, then saturate....when finished. [Eek!]

Posted by Jon Morgan (Member # 3059) on 05-15-2005, 12:14 PM:

I actually prefer filling the lenses entirely with cleaner, bubbles, and glitter. It adds a lot of flair to the presentation.