Have you tried buffing the damage out with a soft cloth and tooth
paste? I have not tried this with a telinga but use it for other
soft plastics.
Rich Peet
--- In Doug Von Gausig <> wrote:
> At 07:37 AM 11/5/2002, Klas wrote:
> >Up north, in Lapland, the Swedish Army made mosquito repellent
tests a few
> >years ago. Among a few other ways, they found the by far most
efficient to
> >be large quantities of yeast-pills.
> >
> >DO NOT!!! use any mosquito spray on the Telinga dish! The strong
detergents
> >make it milky and weak.
>
> I use DEET sprays all the time in Costa Rica - couldn't do without
them.
> I'm careful not to get the DEET directly on anything made of
plastic, but
> the dish occasionally rubs against my arm or sweaty hand, and it
does
> discolor it. Not so severely, though, that it is unusable - just
softens
> the view through it!
>
> Doug
>
> Doug Von Gausig
> Clarkdale, Arizona, USA
> Moderator
> Nature Recordists e-mail group
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naturerecordists
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