Help water stain.

leehai1980 · Post by **leehai1980** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 11:47 pm

Can anyone help me please . My binocular inter got alot of water stain after it drop into the water. Now the inter objective lens look cloudy and got alot of blurr marking on it .

kayheem · Post by **kayheem** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 8:38 am

Sounds like more than water stain. Probably fungus as well.

If the binoculars are expensive, you may want to bring it to the agent for proper cleaning and collimation.

If it is a cheap pair, you may want to attempt the cleaning yourself. You can try to unscrew the objective and clean it with an alcohol swab. Do not use those with fragrances/emollients etc.

Why not post a pic of the damage?

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 8:36 pm

don't forget to dry it too.
Also depends on what kind of lens your bino is using. If it is a doublet, chances are that you have got water sandwiched in between. You would want to take them apart and clean it.

orly_andico · Post by **orly_andico** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:16 pm

don't most binos use cemented objectives?