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Old Feb 17, 2008 | 9:21 am
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Originally Posted by sefrischling
Acetone can damage the coating on your optics! The only acetone that is really proven to clean lenses and not be harmful to your optics is 100% medical acetone, which is more expensive an harder to get your hands on easily than the cleaning solutions I posted above.

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I make and test optics for a living. We use Acetone. I'm unaware of any decent optical camera lens coating that would be damaged by Acetone or for that matter IsoPropanol. YMMV.

I've no idea what 100% medical acetone is, just get Acetone from a chemical supply company.
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