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• May 14, 2004

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Simple question....what do ya use? I just have a bit of film that's built up.

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• May 14, 2004

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The best stuff ever made for masks is Trident Mask Cleaner. Comes in a little white bottle that last forever.

In lieu of that, toothpaste. Not the gel stuff.

 

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• May 15, 2004

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I use toothpaste all of the time. After I clean it with that, I smear a little Johnson & Johnson's baby shampoo in there and let it dry. With a quick rinse right before you jump in the water, you should be clean and fog free for about 10 dives.

 

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• May 22, 2004

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christopher1260:

I use toothpaste all of the time. After I clean it with that, I smear a little Johnson & Johnson's baby shampoo in there and let it dry. With a quick rinse right before you jump in the water, you should be clean and fog free for about 10 dives.

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I agree. Just bear in mind that it might take a couple of "scrubs" with the toothpaste to get all the film off the inside of the mask lenses. Basically, they should be "squeaky clean" before you apply the baby shampoo.

BTW, easy on the shampoo. You only need a couple of drops of it to smear around on the inside to keep the lenses fog-free.

DSDO,

 

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• May 23, 2004

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As stated before, there are products you can buy from LDS or use non-gel toothpaste.

 

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• May 23, 2004

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if you can take your mask apart, you can get it like new. clean the glass with a tooth brush and toothpaste, clean the silicone with liquid soap. The grime on the silicone is often a build up of suncream and body oils, which is why those cockroaches love to eat masks so much.

 

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• May 24, 2004

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I'd clean my mask...but I'd really miss the symbiotic relationship going on it with all of those little creatures!!

I've just got to train them wipe the lenses free of fog on the occasion that it happens...heh.

 

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• May 24, 2004

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cancun mark:

if you can take your mask apart, you can get it like new. clean the glass with a tooth brush and toothpaste, clean the silicone with liquid soap. The grime on the silicone is often a build up of suncream and body oils, which is why those cockroaches love to eat masks so much.

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Whoah! Take it apart?? Silicone is soft and tends to tear VERY easily. Also, it's more than likely that if you take it apart, you will not be able to the lenses to seat/seal as they did originally, leading to leaks.

While I agree that the silicone needs to be cleaned as well as the lenses themselves, IMHO it doesn't require taking the mask apart.