> I shudder to think of the heat necessary to flake the internal paint (melt
> rubber, craze glass, warp metal?)
>
Though the paint on the inside does not adhere anywhere near as well
as the outside paint, you can easily scape it off with your fingernail.
Also heat will stuff the balsam used to cement lens elements together.
> You may well have a valid point about the origins of this 'dust'
> however...the shape and coloration of some of the particles does not hold
> with my precept of 'what dust looks like'.
>
Most of what I have seen looks very much like tiny paint flakes.
Cheers,
Wayne
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