Clean gun oil off optic

Last few eyeglasses I bought from different eye doctors recommended cleaning them with a drop of Dawn dishwasher soap, water, and drying with a micro fiber cloth. Been doing this for years on some expensive glasses.

Go to almost any store and get an eye glass or electronics cleaning kit. 9/10 of them come with a little bottle of solution that is nothing more than water with a small amount of detergent. Oil from skin gets on glasses and phone screens all the time.

Alcohol works well and evaporates quickly.

I use dawn and water . I put it in a spray bottle and put a mist on a a micro-fiber towel to clean glass . I would be careful with anything harsh , don't want to damage that glass .

X3 on soapy water. Twice a year I rub my clean, wet, soapy fingers on my scope lenses and then wipe the residual water off with a soft cotton cloth.

I’ve tried different methods, RainX, Windex, etc., but nothing does better than method I described.

I don’t touch my lenses with anything in between my twice a year cleanings.

frogfurr said:

Last few eyeglasses I bought from different eye doctors recommended cleaning them with a drop of Dawn dishwasher soap, water, and drying with a micro fiber cloth. Been doing this for years on some expensive glasses.

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Dawn and warm water work fine. Dawn appears to cling to most surfaces. Wet the lens, apply Dawn and rub lightly with finger on all surfaces. Thoroughly rinse Dawn from finger and lens surfaces using finger under running water. Dry with clean cotton cloth. I had trouble with smears when wiping the lenses with cloth until I realized that I had not removed all of the Dawn from lens and finger.

Careful with alcohol. It can act as a penetrant.

70% isopropyl rubbing alcohol would be my choice. I have used it for years on telescopes, rifle optics and microscope lenses, no problems yet. Finish with one of those cloths your optometrist gives you to clean your eyeglasses with.

I clean my glasses with dawn dish soap and hot water. The soap suspends any oils and the "hot" water rinses it completely off the glasses.

I clean my glasses several times a day, minimum, smeary specs annoy the hell out of me. I just use diluted 50% dish soap, in my case either green Palmolive or Ajax lemon or orange. It seems to dissolve grease/oil very well and it hasn't caused any of the lenses of my glasses going back over 43+ years of using it to show any signs of it being bad for them. The main reason I use those over Dawn and others is I really really hate the smell of Dawn and some of the others. Perfume/scents are one of the things I have a lot of problems with. The worst of them all is Gain detergent.