Elaine Harmon wrote: > I've tried the spit without much success, but I've been intending to ask > -- has anyone put Rain-X on their sunglasses? It shouldn't hurt glass, but > I'm wondering about plastic, as most polaroids seem to be. > > And while we're at those fussy little details, I wear cheap Timex watches > that are supposed to be waterproof. They have wee gaskets inside. After > you've changed the battery once, they leak a bit and eventually the salt > corrodes the terminals. Question: is there a substance (like maybe > silicone boot lubricant?) that you can put on those gaskets and around the > edge of the crystal, to keep the watch waterproof? It has to stay liquid > or it'll glue the gasket to the case and you won't be able to open it > again, I guess. And maybe could the same stuff be applied to the outside > edges of the outer lenses, and body joints, to make a cheap pair of > binoculars waterproof? > > Last winter we used rain-x on the face shields of our snowmobile helmets with no ill effects, so I doubt that it would hurt the plastic on sunglasses. You actually change the batteries on your cheap timex watches?!? Wow, I usually have beat them up so bad by then that I just replace them. Mike -- Paddling along through fog so thick that only one's thoughts are visible, your reverie is abruptly shattered by the ancient cry of a great blue heron as she lifts uncertainly from the brilliant blue of a mussel-shell beach witnessed only by the brooding, wet spruce....your passage home seems as much back through time as it does through space. Mark H Hunt *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Aug 09 1999 - 09:01:07 PDT
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