In the mean while the 3rd world nations continue to use the stuff (freon) by the ton.. All this kind of stuff makes the ignorant think they are doing something to help the environment. While, the governments allows corporations and cities to continue to pollute in mass amounts. I noticed this back when they started requiring boats to have holding tanks on the Great Lakes while whole cities continued to dump raw sewage into them. Then there is the requirement for all that expensive anti-pollution equipment required on your car, while coal fired power plants continue to spew junk into the air (Hugh Morton, the owner of GFM, says that NC has grandfathered in 7 such plants, each of which produces more pollutants than all the cars in the state). Then there is your nasty mercury batteries, we can not buy them for our old cameras while industrial use of mercury continues.
Don't get me wrong, getting rid of nasty stuff in the environment is a good thing. But, the way to do it is to stop the major polluters first, then trickle the restrictions down to the poor consumer. But then, the poor consumer doesn't have tons of money to lobby with., so it's politics as usual. Oh, if you got this far, the residue adhesive on the gunky foam definitely can eat into the plastic screen to the point where there is nothing much you can do but replace it. You can try rubbing alcohol watered down 1:1. Yes, rubbing alcohol is isopropyl, but it is already watered down to about 25%, the strait stuff would need to be watered down to about 10% to be safe on the plastic. Moisten a q-tip and very gently wipe the gunk from the screen. Throw out that q-tip and do it again. Keep doing it with a clean g-tip until you have gotten all of the gunk off the screen. Then do it with q-tips moistened with warm water until all the alcohol is off the screen. Then wipe dry, very gently with the end of a piece of rolled up lens tissue. No guarantees, but you may be able to salvage the screen this way. Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Whaley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 8:34 AM Subject: Re: OT: screen cleaning - help, please > > > Mark Roberts wrote: > > > > Mark Cassino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [...] > > > ME Super has a plastic screen. It's probably ruined - I've never been > > successful at getting gunk out of plastic screens, no matter what > > cleaning agents I've tried (even Freon TF, when it was available) :( > > I see the memory still exists, even tho' the product doesn't! > I really miss having a can of that TF around! I'd use it on a lot of > stuff. Totally inert and non-harmful. > I usually had a can of the acetone-containing version, too, for the > really dirty stuff. > Back in the good ol' days, when the atmosphere ruining compounds were > not yet thought about. > I'm still not totally convinced it was/is Freon type compounds > responsible for the "ozone hole"... but can't prove otherwise. > > keith whaley > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.504 / Virus Database: 302 - Release Date: 7/24/03
