Spectacle lens cleaning fluid - cheaper version?

[Phil Addison]

(Andrew Gabriel)

No worries Andrew, don't need it anymore, seems I've got loads of the ingredients in the bathroom already!

[Andy Burns]

Maybe you could retain the old Boots bottle as a handy shark repellent spray!

[Steve Firth]

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(Andrew Gabriel)

ingredients in the

Boots do tend to charge rip-off prices. Their pricing of ibuprofen tablets is a disgrace for example.

For cheap spectacle lens cleaner I use "W5" cleaning pads from Lidl, or Aldi. Do the job well and cheap. If I run out of those Fairy liquid [1] and a tap with warm water.

[1] other detergents are available.

[dennis]

I was in quay plastics yesterday and they had 25l drums of glass cleaner for about £12 IIRC.

[stuart noble]

Cheaper if you buy a 200 litre drum :-)

[geoff]

In message , Phil Addison writes

Well it would be if it was actually a problem

[Dave Liquorice]

There is only a loose corelation between the Costco website and what Costco stores carry.

[S Viemeister]

So I've noticed.

[Bob Eager]

There is only a loose correlation between what a Costco store carries one week, and what it carries the next week!

[Dave Liquorice]

Can't say I've noticed that on a weekly basis but then I only go about every 3 or 4 months as it is a 100 mile round trip. The stock does change overtime but I find that to be nearer years rather than weeks.

[charles]

saliva is free.

[geoff]

You mean there is any at all?

[geoff]

In message , charles writes

And has yet to be bettered as a demisting agent

[Rick Hughes]

Boots "Spectacle

My local optician simply uses Meths in a trigger spray. That would be MUCH cheaper

I have a spray can of Isopropyl alcohol at home so I use that, easy to buy form eBay.

[Rob]

50% Isopropanol 50% Distilled Water. OK for Windows, Screens, Specs.

[fred]

I use those microfibre cloths most opticians give away free. In fact my opt ician gave me a half dozen of them when asked. I find them perfectly adequa te. Keep one in my desk, one in the workshop in a plastic bag, one in the c ar.

[geoff]

Can't do that

apparently, grit, carborundum, iron filings and all kinds of evil dust are attracted to them and is fermented into angle grinders which attack the lenses