{"id":371,"date":"2016-10-26T07:42:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T07:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labnetwest.colourfi.com\/?p=371"},"modified":"2025-12-22T06:03:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:03:51","slug":"lens-cleaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/lens-cleaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Lens cleaning:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a tip for cleaning objective lenses on microscopes: Cotton buds are too big to reach inside the protective recess but toothpicks (the strong double-ended round ones) are ideal.<br \/>\nDip in alcohol or white spirit to dissolve the build-up and then the fine tip can be used gently like a brush. Finally, wrap one in a piece of lens tissue and use to polish the lens. The wood doesn\u2019t seem to scratch and the lenses come out very clean.<br \/>\nIt is not necessarily a recommended method for expensive lenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a tip for cleaning objective lenses on microscopes: Cotton buds are too big to reach inside the protective recess but toothpicks (the strong double-ended round ones) are ideal. Dip in alcohol or white spirit to dissolve the build-up and then the fine tip can be used gently like a brush. Finally, wrap one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}