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Found this guy while trollin' around. Much more comprehensive articles, in-depth repair techniques on the rest of his site as well:
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Repair: Fungus Cleaning
Hello, everybody! I was a bit busy with a wedding yesterday as photographer#2 so I did not have the time to prepare for a complete article. I decided to write something else instead. It dawned to m…
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I'd seen fungus in a Leitz lens as a kid, a local doctor would spend time here in Florida during the winters and had his Leica along. I'd no idea it was possible for anything to grow on optics. Scared th' heck outta me. Now I'm a victim.
Surprised to find no ammonia in the local Publix stores, thought we had a jug here but nothin' found. So my 'phungus project' is delayed.
As for dust, GAH! I even got out the old "StaticMaster" brush to dust off anything on the scanner and negs and still have the traces in the scans. About choked seeing the cost of those things now, too!
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I'm one and one just now. The 18~140 DX AF had a spot on the edge of the second element in. A dot smaller than a pinhead with "stuff" radiating out to about 1/4" diameter. Decided that was priority, removed the front element and treated the invader. The Ox Snot worked as advertised, again the Q-Tip soaked and applied repeatedly. Cleaned well with alcohol on swabs, inside front element as well, and reassembled & checked. 
On to the 200mm: Had a time getting 40 year old setscrews to cooperate, went in from the mount end as far as I could but unable to get the front element retainer to budge. Spent a couple hours on it, got whatever was on the rear element treated but decided to reassemble and try again another day.
No trophy for me.
On to the 200mm: Had a time getting 40 year old setscrews to cooperate, went in from the mount end as far as I could but unable to get the front element retainer to budge. Spent a couple hours on it, got whatever was on the rear element treated but decided to reassemble and try again another day.
No trophy for me.
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Alright. No more concrete. It was only to check sharpness anyway.
Have you ever seen a shot of the SR-71 with the Playboy Bunny on the tail over desert? If so, check the by-line. Two shots made into lithograph series. Two different photogs.
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"Rapid Rabbit" SR-71. Only one lost to a crash landing, at Kadina. Both guys walked away. Lockheed had used it early on as a "glamour model" for photos.
The litho series photo I referenced was shot by a SSgt Richard Jackson, durn'd if I can find it on the 'net tho. Rich was another of our AAVS co-workers. Most of the "Photo: Courtesy U.S. Air Force" by-lines were shot by one of us Still Photo weenies. Rich was among the first bunch of us to make enough noise for individual recognition. Finally Airman Magazine got on board with it.
In March of '72 another guy and I went on a TDY to Burlington, VT to photo the GAU-8A test firing. In the "shop" there was a crusty old TSgt working with G.E. He had a white coffee mug with a Blackbird graphic on it in black outline with a big "3+" in red over the graphic. We asked him if that were true, he was evasive but grinned. Found out he'd been part of a Habu team. Back then nobody "outside" knew what the 'bird could do, all that was Classified info. We were given these "Mementos" on that trip, the raised portions were originally gold but years on my toolbox have taken a toll. "Fridge" magnets about the diameter of a half-dollar coin. S'posed to be a tank blowin' up in the gunsight.
The litho series photo I referenced was shot by a SSgt Richard Jackson, durn'd if I can find it on the 'net tho. Rich was another of our AAVS co-workers. Most of the "Photo: Courtesy U.S. Air Force" by-lines were shot by one of us Still Photo weenies. Rich was among the first bunch of us to make enough noise for individual recognition. Finally Airman Magazine got on board with it.
In March of '72 another guy and I went on a TDY to Burlington, VT to photo the GAU-8A test firing. In the "shop" there was a crusty old TSgt working with G.E. He had a white coffee mug with a Blackbird graphic on it in black outline with a big "3+" in red over the graphic. We asked him if that were true, he was evasive but grinned. Found out he'd been part of a Habu team. Back then nobody "outside" knew what the 'bird could do, all that was Classified info. We were given these "Mementos" on that trip, the raised portions were originally gold but years on my toolbox have taken a toll. "Fridge" magnets about the diameter of a half-dollar coin. S'posed to be a tank blowin' up in the gunsight.
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You'd get a laugh from the details! Thought I'd put them out someplace here before. The concussion wave alone was impressive, to say th' least.
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You could make your own penicillin!
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That'd be an expensive petri dish!