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How To Reduce Mildew Smell In Old Camera

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  1. You know how some people leave unwanted pets nigh an beast shelter or the 'Cat Lady's firm?

    I've got two friends who send me boxes of sometime camera stuff because they know I'll take good care of it.

    Some of my new treasures simply reek...I suspect varieties of mold I haven't smelled before.

    Did you know in that location are over 100 000 types of mold? Great news huh?

    What do you folks clean camera bodies, filmholders, etc with?

    I was thinking the same stuff I clean mold off lenses with: a mix of Ammonia or Windex Original Glass cleaner,
    hydrogen peroxide and some isopropyl alcohol. I'k a bit leery near getting much moisture inside, but I practise become
    tired of putting stinky cams against my nose.

    I have left items on the roof of my automobile to get some UV from the sun simply it didn't seem to do anything noticeable,
    and I did forget and lose a camera dorsum once when I drive off. Coffee cups are easier to supervene upon than antique
    camera backs :O(

    I haven't tried information technology yet, simply read that many molds can be killed past freezing. Mayhap a plastic bag & a dark in the
    freezer is worth a try, and so cleaning.

    Thank you

    Murray

  2. I wonder if ammonia and Windex would impairment lens coatings?

    I wish I knew the right answer to your question. I once got terrific buys on a big lot of books that had been wetted in a tornado, and I used spray Lysol past the case for a couple of years and eventually got rid of the mildew. It'south pretty strong (will dissolve ink if sprayed also directly) and so I'one thousand non sure I'd employ it directly on a camera. Perhaps a cautious use, spraying it on a newspaper towel and wiping carefully?

  3. Pull a Weegee. Get-go smoking cigars.
  4. Once got a like-new Canon F1 from a pawn shop that smelled like somebody's moldy basement .. took off the back and gently cleaned within and out metal surfaces with naptha on a q-tip .. was careful not to allow fluid drip into anything like switches, etc and cleaned using a opposite gravity method followed with a blower bulb effectually the contacts and switches .. permit photographic camera body sit down in sunlight for about 12 hours .. note, I did not touch the shutter mantle; of class naptha will not exercise for plastic parts! .. for plastic I would attempt a diluted vinegar solution followed by distilled water .. and thorough drying with q-tips/cloth, followed by sunlight and fresh air.
  5. Here I own two commerical ozone generators that toll nigh 500 bucks each. They assistance remove smells from cars; wet carpets and clothes; photographic camera cases; the attic's raccoon smell.
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  6. With non metal items like woods; fur; plastic; leather, newspaper etc the "smell" of the mold; cig smoke, raccoon, BO gets into pores; grain cobweb of the non metallic item and lingers.
  7. I accept an ozone-generating air cleaner, just it'due south corona points or power supply are tired out - needs an overhaul,
    and not a high enough priority for paying for a quoted overhaul.

    Re: Lens coatings...it's rubber (with proper care) on mod ('hard') coatings and uncoated lenses. By 'safe' I
    mean the solution itself won't impairment the blanket, but any cleaning method has some take chances if one unknowingly causes
    abrasion.

    I guess with anything from around 1940+/- v years that is coated, one could be safe and assume an early 'soft'
    coating and be cautious or better. Just Whatsoever cleaning method tin be hazardous to the and so-chosen soft coatings. But
    what do y'all do it yous've got a coated lens that is in bad enough shape to need cleaning but not worth the cost of
    having it washed professionally? Maybe 'the assessment of value' is the deciding gene to take a chance trading one grade of
    damage for another vs finding a professional reply.

    LEAVING mildew on a lens isn't a proficient option. I have one lens element (forepart half of a 12" Metrogon aeriform
    mapping lens). I thought information technology had something on the coating, but under a microscope I realized it was pitted with
    mildew inside the pits. I had read of some molds that can course HF, hydrofluoric acrid, but had only ever seen hazy
    surface mold. And so that lens has surface texture...

    Thanks the input, all.

  9. Effort packing the items with activated charcoal in sealed containers. A calendar week or ii volition remove all but the almost stubborn odors. This stuff is available in aquarium supply shops. Make sure y'all merely use "activated charcoal. You lot tin permit the charcoal "air out", and re-use information technology.
  10. Hi, Murray I've plant a combination of sunlight and bicarbonate of soda (ie cooking soda) does the trick. Just open a couple of packets of the stuff (y'all don't need to sprinkle it) and pack them carefully with your camera(s) in a transparent plastic handbag in sunlight. A twenty-four hour period of this handling is often enough to exercise the play a joke on, but if it's persistent try it for a couple more days.

    It's not a bad idea to proceed a packet of opened bicarb of soda in your fridge, either. It helps to keep those typical fridge odours away. Supersede later on every few months though, considering its deodourising powers gradually wane. (Pete In Perth)

  11. I employ Household Ammonia and liquid lather. It would proceed it acid gratis. If you use detergent then make sure that information technology is acrid free! I don't spray only use with caution by dipping and swabbing with ear buds or cotton [equally suggested by JDM]. Better to use organic surgical cotton rather than Polyester cotton wool. The latter tin exist rough and leave scratches. Using a blower dries the Ammonia fast. If you employ a power blower, please use a cheese textile or fine gauze over the nozzle to keep the air dust free.For lubricating I use perfumed coconut oil. It is available with non-freezing additives. That leaves the photographic camera smelling adept. Pure coconut oil will harden in cold temperatures. So be conscientious to utilise the non-freezing type. I repaired and renewed 50 twelvemonth old cameras this fashion. They seem to concur well.
  12. The mere idea of coconut oil brings brilliant memories of Nigeria dorsum to me where, in the countryside at the time I was there shortly after the civil war, everything smelled of coconut and palm oil.

    However, there are watchmaker'south oils that are definitely better choices, especially in temperate zones, for the little lubrication that is advisable for camera equipment and lenses. The rule is to estimate what you think is necessary and then use about a fifteenth of that. Alas, it has no aroma.

    Thank you for the flashback, Subbarayan!

  13. I've recently read that a also-potent vinegar solution definitely will harm the glass of a lens. Seems to etch the glass itself, regardless of coating. Just a note on that.

    I've cleaned heavy fungus off of 1 lens only with lens cleaner. Information technology hadn't been in that location long enough -- or was the "correct" variety -- to do whatever damage to the glass notwithstanding.

    Other than that, I've cleaned lots of printing and view camera bodies with but whatever was around. If it had potent mold odor, a affect of vinegar in the water seems to do the trick.

    My biggest problem is when the mold is in the bellows, I just haven't been able to get rid of the stink no thing what. I've tried vinegar and hydrogen peroxide. Haven't tried the activated charcoal -- side by side time it comes up I'll practice that, see if information technology works.

    Meanwhile, I've been stupid and stubborn enough to teach myself how to build bellows, so I've been able to supplant them. (I've never built a pocket-sized bellows, like on a 6x9 folder, but the ones with the bigger folds, like Crown Graphics or Ansco views, etc., are no trouble.) If I hadn't been able to make the bellows, some good user cameras would have been lost to me over the years.

  14. Michael, I've never tried it, but I did annotation some time ago that this was possible. I've attached a little pdf
    file here that explains how to make a bellows and y'all might desire to add together whatever hints nearly how you have done information technology
    either hither or in a new topic.

    from 1979 THE PICTORIAL Cyclopedia OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Edited past Leonard Gaunt and Paul Petzold, Revised by George L.
    Wakefield, Focal Press. London Focal/Hastings House. New York.

  15. Factor, you're a weird dude. But I must confess to enjoying the "aroma" of my Kiev cameras. Smells like Grandma's blimp
    cabbage.
  16. Russ, the reason your Kiev emanates that peculiar odour may not be due to something you want to hear, mate. Still, here goes ........ Russian and Ukrainian leather was even so cured with animal, er .... "waste products" long after health regulations in virtually other countries had banned their use. If you'd lived nigh a tannery back in the 50s as I did in Kingston--on-Thames, yous'd recall with cloy the atrocious gagging stink that such places emanated, specially in summer when the heat seemed to aggravate the problem.

    Then, your Kiev probably had stayed within its leather ERC for many years and acquired second-hand that curious olfactory property that either repels or delights - chacun a son gout! I withal recommend my blistering soda/plastic handbag method of getting rid of it, if you lot now feel differently nearly its similarity with Grannie'southward boiled cabbage ............. (Pete In Perth)

  17. Commerical Ozone generators are what is used to remove funky moldy, some smoke type, barf/upchuck, domestic dog, locker room smells from hotel/cabin rooms; used cars; house for sale; even laundrys do this. Hither the two units I have cost about 500 bucks each; they are Non the uncomplicated cheapie models. When one leaves ane in a house or room for awhile the unabridged area should exist vacated; it smells similar toy trains running or that smell around lighting. With cig smoke there are tars that get on surfaces; thus the ozone helps only requires repeat applications. On a cheap leather item like those 20 dollar leather jackets in crates hawked at grocery stores they are often cured in urine. I might buy one in dry Southern California and its ok until information technology gets clammy; so one gets that urine smell. Here many of my Russian photographic camera cases had this funky scent; some didnt. A few didnt get fixed enough with the ozone treatment and were tossed in the fireplace were they were burned upwardly. With mucus harm to a lens; extended damage "eats" into the glass; 1 has potholes that do NOT go away with cleaning. If the detail such as a bellows is rotting and its that aroma the reaction of the rot needs to be halted.
  18. Thank you Peter, Now I know what Granny'due south undercover ingredient was....no wonder she always had that smiling!
  19. The distinctive smell of Soviet cameras is mostly due to the causes mentioned past Peter. However, i would exist remiss not to mention the fact that not only chimneys smoked in the FSU, and many Soviet cigarettes were fabricated with lovely Caucasian or cardinal Asian tobaccos that many of us withal love. What I wouldn't give for an Uzbek cigarette correct now.... The Kievaholic site has many comments on the smell of Soviet cameras, together with a very clever alert label that you can print off and put on your camera case. I must add, that some DDR cameras also have what tin be described every bit a "rich" odor. Like Peter, I once lived in a boondocks (Woburn, Massachusetts) that had both tanning facilities AND a big gelatin manufacturing plant (it would exist better if you did not think nearly the reasons for this combination of enterprises). That also was a "rich" boondocks.
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  20. Just thinking still well-nigh tanneries reminds me that in that location was a British Tv set series shown here in Oz terminal yr, titled "The Worst Jobs In History". Information technology was introduced by Tony Robinson (or something of similar ilk), the old actor who played Blackadder'southward daft sidekick Baldrick in the "Blackadder" blackness comedy serial with Rowan Atkinson aka Mr Bean..

    Tony seems to accept given upwards acting these days to concentrate on more serious stuff such as digging holes all around Britain looking for signs of the Druids, etc, in the "Time Squad" series. However, in this "Worst Jobs" series he looked at all sorts of awful jobs such equally lighthouse keeper, charcoal burner, steam engine stoker etc. But about the very worst ane for him was that of a tannery worker, mainly because of the awful smell. He actually visited a modern tannery (although it appeared to be of Victorian heritage) and was shown by one of the workers just what went on in the day-to-day operations of leather tanning.. I guess they wouldn't accept been using those "creature waste products" simply the smell was still so foul that he was almost sick. Strangely, the workers in that location hardly noticed it - but possibly their nasal passages had long been rended incapable of detecting such things.

    I'one thousand reliably advised past friends in the States that your PBS TV channel eventually gets to show virtually of the meliorate documentaries and comedies from Britain, then please keep an center (merely not a nose) out for "The Worst Jobs In History". (Pete In Perth)

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