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Costco sell a twin pack of two large bottles (probably each one is 10 times the size of the optician ones) for something like £10 from their optician counter. I get it for my parents (or I did once - it's never run out since).
Boots "Spectacle
My wife took one of those to the school office where she works. She successfully hid it for a couple of weeks until someone caught her using it, Since then it has cleaned a volume of glasses, the photocopier, umpteen monitors and keyboards. Still got plenty left in it.
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Up until this point I thought the punch line was going to be COSHH related.
Fairly expensive that. You can get 5ltrs for £18 -£20 from many chemical suppliers some including delivery.
G.Harman
In message , Phil Addison writes
Get yourself down to Costco or wherever else sells micropore cloths
You don't need fancy fluids, if the lenses are really dirty, a little bit of gob for lubrication will help
For cleaning off all the verdigris etc, I use a £20 ultrasonic cleaner every year or so
email me your address, I'll send you a micropore cloth
And a litre for £8.41, free delivery, from CPC.
Complete with fermenting gob and ground in dirt, er... Thank you but no thank you. B-)
When you get 40 30 x 30cm square cloths for about a tenner, personally, its not an issue for me
Not quite so sure where you get all that ground-in dirt on a pair of lenses from ... perhaps best not to ask
Isn't paper made of fibrous stuff though, eg wood?
Good point
Ta but I'm ok for them. It looks like I now have an excuse to buy an ultrasonic cleaner too.
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Looks a good deal; now I have a reason to sign up to costco.
Just check the ingredients of the Boots one: "Water, SAS-60 "Sodium C14-17 Alkyl Sulfonate), Potassium Lauryl Phosphate". No idea what they are - except the water!
I find meths leaves a sticky residue, wouldn't let it near mine.
Detergents ...
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Shaving Gel (Gillette in my case), a small squirt rubbed in with the fingers, rinsed off under a warm tap. No grease, no scratches and if the water is hot enough, no need to even dry them.
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I can't find it on their website, which makes me wonder if they still do it. Might want to have someone confirm that first.
Gabriel)
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What's wrong with the 99p for 100ml ASDA one? or just use asda glass and widow cleaner at £1 for 500ml if you can stand the smell.
Specially for Victorian glass-sided hearses. Added formaldehyde to ensure no embarrassing odours.
Yeah I know but life's too short to go sourcing stuff that gets used a spoonful at a time, probably over decades. The ex works 25 litre price for most things is dirt cheap, the rest is what the seller can get away with
Isopropyl alcohol plus dish detergent diluted in water makes a usable replacement (but would be better with whatever they use as an anti-misting agent in the commercial stuff).
'kinell, that makes Boots even more a rip-off. My morning spec cleaning regimen will be moved to the bathroom in future - hot running water and whatever shower-geel/shampoo is arond!!
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