Maximus
Aluminum
- Joined
- Jan 2, 2005
- Location
- Torrance, CA
I have a AcuRite DRO with optical scales. I found some chips clinging to the rubber wipers and somehow some crud found itself inside the Y axis linear scale. I was able to disassemble the scale and clean off the crud on all the non critical parts.
My question is, what do you use to clean off the optical glass encoder and the encoder reader ? There seems to be a film of oil on both the glass and encoder reader. I was thinking of wrapping some lens cleaning tissue around a Q-tip and wiping it down with either Isopropyl Alcohol or Windex. Are these glass encoders so delicate that you need a special cleaning agent ?
Thanks for any advice.
Max
My question is, what do you use to clean off the optical glass encoder and the encoder reader ? There seems to be a film of oil on both the glass and encoder reader. I was thinking of wrapping some lens cleaning tissue around a Q-tip and wiping it down with either Isopropyl Alcohol or Windex. Are these glass encoders so delicate that you need a special cleaning agent ?
Thanks for any advice.
Max