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Carbon Black Cleaner

03/12/2010 9:58 AM

Has anyone ever heard of a LensPen? They are pen shaped cleaning tools that people use to clean optical surfaces like the lens of a camera. They use a carbon black compound on a cloth tip that is rubbed on the lens. It works surprisingly well even though carbon black is usually used as a dye or for reinforcing tires.

I have been trying to make a mixture of carbon black, calcium sulfate (one of the ingredients the lenspen uses) and water to create something like this for myself but I haven't been able to do it. Does anyone know anything about this? Any suggestions on quantities of each ingredient? It is very interesting to me and I want to find out more about it.

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Re: Carbon Black Cleaner

03/12/2010 10:02 AM

Given the small particle size, I'd say you want a drop of washing up liquid in the mix somewhere, so as to reduce the surface tension, Captain.

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Re: Carbon Black Cleaner

03/13/2010 5:01 PM

Hi,

"Discofilm" is said to be one of the very good solutions for this problem.

It is available at ebay.de

It was invented for cleaning vinyl discs.

I got a bottle but a test will take some time.

I found a patent from AGFA for a similar stuff, but that was never produced.

Carbon black is likely in use because the capillary force is high as grain size is very small.

Have success and please report here.

RHABE

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