I purchased several folders of evilbay last week and most had some form of fungus in the lenses and it was on multiple elements in each lens. So I thought these were done and I'd have to junk them. So I googled here in APUG " how to clean fungus off lenses" and one answer suggested trying Listerine. So I thought what can happen to lenses that were already kaput. These were mostly uncoated kodak anastigmat lenses. So I disassembled one lens and used Cool Mint Listerine on a q-tip. Boy was I surprised !!!. It tool two applications and all of the fungus was gone !!!. No etching of the glass, no residue from the Listerine and the lenses smelled minty fresh.
I repeated this on other lenses and same result. All I did was clean up any smears on the glass with lens cleaning solution and tissues and they looked good as new. Now if I can only get the shutters these lenses are in to work, I'll be ahead of the game. But I'll leave that part to the pros.
Doug
I repeated this on other lenses and same result. All I did was clean up any smears on the glass with lens cleaning solution and tissues and they looked good as new. Now if I can only get the shutters these lenses are in to work, I'll be ahead of the game. But I'll leave that part to the pros.
Doug