Removing dust from optical surfaces

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Anderl avatar
Has anyone tried to remove dust from optical surfaces like mirrors, filters and glas by blowing ionised air out of a hairdryer on it? 

Reason i ask is, i have a l-ultimate that is impossible to clean, no blower, no cleaning solution, nothing seems to be able to remove the dust particles on the surface of this filter. 

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Andi
andrea tasselli avatar
And why should you? You risk ruining it for no advantage at all. And, yes I did and it didn't work.
Anderl avatar
andrea tasselli:
And why should you? You risk ruining it for no advantage at all. And, yes I did and it didn't work.

Just had the chance to test it. 

worked great and solved my problem. I think lot of dust creating dustspots is a problem and ionised air is an easy fix for that.
Brian Puhl avatar
I just use one of those mini duster guns from Amazon that I picked up the other day, working very well to keep the dust off as I'm assembling.   I don't have anything caked on tho.
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