Rifle Scopes Acetone on your lens????

#3
Re: Acetone on your lens????

I've been told from both USO and Premier that clean acetone is the best thing to use to clean the lenses. The best thing to do is get in touch with them and ask them their procedure.
Basically; blow any debris out with clean air, not CO2 because the temperature may be a shock to the scope. Clean glass with clean cotton swab and dispose after each wipe, going in a circle pattern. I use it all the time after I remove the masking on a lens and it works great.
 
#6
Re: Acetone on your lens????

Leupold and Burris have both told me this is what they use to clean their glass. The trick is to buy a dedicated bottle for lense cleaning. Then squirt it on your QTips. If you dip anything into it you will contaminate it and it will leave a film on your lenses. After acetone I just use a bit of breath steam to put the final polish on them. They come out better than new.
 
#7
Re: Acetone on your lens????

I assumed that acetone was appropriate and cleaned the objective of my Bender with it. Nothing bad seemed to have happened.
 
#9
Re: Acetone on your lens????

Acetone should not attack most coating. Something to consider is the retaining rings that hold the GLASS into the scope. Some cheaper scopes may have plastic retainers that can melt from the acetone, and smear onto the glass. Discovered this on a camera that used plastic ring retainers.

I personally prefer Methyl Alcohol. I huff on the lens , then wipe the moisture from the breath, with a lens tissue doused with Methanol. Have seen the least number of scratches on the coating, using this method.

BTW, my paying job is to final polish large precision optics, so I get paid not to scratch glass.
 
#11
Re: Acetone on your lens????

I also use the USO method. One gripe I have is that I spent a pretty penny for a natural (horse hair) brush as reccomended and it left an oil residue. Not sure if it was just the natural oils from the animal or if the brush was contaminated when I purchased it at the art store.

Now I just skip that step and only use the oil free computer cleanning "gas" to remove the bulk dust before the swabs.
 
#12
Re: Acetone on your lens????

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Anchor Zero Six</div><div class="ubbcode-body">One gripe I have is that I spent a pretty penny for a natural (horse hair) brush as reccomended and it left an oil residue......Now I just skip that step and only use ...</div></div>

Why don't you just clean the bristles in acetone to remove the oils?
 
#13
Re: Acetone on your lens????

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: shootist2004</div><div class="ubbcode-body">http://www.usoptics.com/index.php?page=instructions </div></div>

When my USO gets here this is how I plan on cleaning it.

I don't know where the plastic bottle came from in the film, I'm going to use a plastic bottle I bought at CVS in the travel section. Granted I have a purple one and a green one. One has Hoppes #9 and the other will have acetone from walmart.

FWIW.
 
#14
Re: Acetone on your lens????

I would also be concerned with the acetone removing the lens coatings, but if the manufactures say it's Ok, then I guess it's safe to use. I was once told not to use alcohol because of the same concern, but when I was in the Air Force, we used 100% pure alcohol to clean optical sensor lenses on aircraft.

One thing that I would still worry about is some manufactures use eboxy to seal or lock the lens locking rings, and I would think that any prolonged exposure to the epoxy may degrade it.
 
#15
Re: Acetone on your lens????

Am I correct in making the assumption that the most prudent thing would be to only clean the lense when needed, in case the acetone has any long term negative implications?
 
#17
Re: Acetone on your lens????

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 10Xview</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Why don't you just clean the bristles in acetone to remove the oils?</div></div>

Wasnt 100% sure that the Acetone wouldnt dissolve the brush and ended up using it to apply very light film of break free on my guns after I clean them. Its getting pretty haggarded so I may dunk it in acetone to see what it does, not that I would use the same brush on my scopes just to see if it dissolves the bristles.
 
#19
Re: Acetone on your lens????

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Anchor Zero Six</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

Wasnt 100% sure that the Acetone wouldnt dissolve the brush and ended up using it to apply very light film of break free on my guns after I clean them.</div></div>

FFR- Acetone won't dissolve horse hair. But now that the bristles are saturated with CLP, it might be difficult to remove all the oil.
 
#20
Re: Acetone on your lens????

instead of worring about acetone, I started to use alcohol, which is basically water when it physically separtes out. I use one q-tip wet down with alcohol, rub it around, then take another dry qtip and go around, then another one tell it's dry. It works great and they come out streak free and clean.

xdeano
 
#21
Re: Acetone on your lens????

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: xdeano</div><div class="ubbcode-body">instead of worring about acetone, I started to use alcohol, which is basically water when it physically separtes out. I use one q-tip wet down with alcohol, rub it around, then take another dry qtip and go around, then another one tell it's dry. It works great and they come out streak free and clean.

xdeano </div></div>


I am going to give that a try
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

gr8fuldoug
Spotters Athlon Spotting Scopes
Replies
0
Views
122
gr8fuldoug
gr8fuldoug
M
  • Locked
Fed up with false Japanese glass
Replies
33
Views
3K
Huskydriver
Huskydriver
gr8fuldoug
Win a Zeiss 15x56 LRP
Replies
0
Views
139
gr8fuldoug
gr8fuldoug
gr8fuldoug
Rifle Scopes Check Out This Hunting Scope
Replies
0
Views
266
gr8fuldoug
gr8fuldoug
S
Anybody seen a gun wrap in person?
Replies
26
Views
1K
Trigger Monkey
Trigger Monkey
Top Bottom
Back
Home
Forums
Merch
Alerts