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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WJC" data-source="post: 3616348" data-attributes="member: 25191">Just understand, I have to charge more for "expert" opinions—you know what I think of many ... "experts.Watering it down? If it is bad juju, it will just be a little less bad juju. Why not just use the original formula? What you used is good but it IS NOT the original formula—their advertising notwithstanding. No blue liquitint? I’m sure your wife’s cabinets have food dyes‑same bloody thing.AR coatings are columnar, so microscopics CAN get to the lens surface. Whether it will damage anything is for those to say who are much smarter than me ... both of them—‘lil humor.* I can’t speak to that reality. I can say from experience that some people can’t function without creating problems where there are none—at least in the realm of practicality.The Windex of today’s supermarkets would not be my first choice—I think the original formula is probably better for optics—but, I wouldn’t go too far out of my way to use it. I would, however, thoroughly rinse the workpiece to be safe. :cat:Bill* I was once chewed out on CN for referring to Dr. Marco Ciocca as a “college puke.” No one bothered to realize the fellow is a friend, that it was a long-standing joke between us, or that, after a dozen years of academics, I rate being a college puke, too—like Mark Twain, I never let school get in the way of my education. But then, some people feel it’s their place to have their guns consistently drawn even before trying to seek the facts.</blockquote>

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