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Subject: Re: [OM] Filthy, stinking smokers
From: "Tom Scales" <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 20:37:04 -0400
Wow, I don't even remember that one.  I do a MUCH better job cleaning them
up now :)

Glad it is still working for you.

Tom

> Bringing this back on-topic, I bought a user condition OM-2n from Tom
> Scales on E*ay a couple of years ago.  I presume it was a camera he
> got in a large lot on E*ay where it was the lenses he was interested in.
> The camera was pretty dingy, but had no major dings.  I spent the next
> two or three weeks going over it with alcohol-moistened cotton swabs -
> again and again and again until the swabs stopped coming away brown.
> In the end, the camera looked decent.
>
> Now I'm not complaining, Tom.  I got what I bargained for, and it was
> a good bargain.  When your ad said it was perfect working order, I knew
> it would be.  In fact, two years later it is still working perfectly
> and I haven't yet had it overhauled.
>
> But I cringe thinking, given the amount of brown gunge I cleaned off
> the exterior surfaces, what the innards must look like.
>
>



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