WOODMAN
Contributor
I continue to battle the dreaded salt fiend in my Ikelite camera housing. I have tried just about everything, from trying to get a rinse bucket on the dive boat (nearly impossible some places) to extended soaking in the camera tank back at the resort, to putting the housing in a cooler filled with water in my hotel room, etc,etc. Nothing seems to really work, and the buttons on my housing slowly start to stick after the housing has dried off. The only real cure seems to be to send the housing back to Ikelite for an overhaul, but there has got to be a better way. I came up with the idea of soaking the housing in a cooler filled with distilled water for several days here at home, periodically operating the buttons and levers to let the water really get in there and soak the salt out. Do you think this will do any good? I even tried putting minute amounts of liquid silicone (food grade) around the buttons and trying to work it in, with questionable results. Anybody have any better ideas?