Paintball

[Uranus]

I use a spray bottle, I try to spray most of it off, then wipe with a microfiber. I carry a small spray bottle about 4" tall to clean on the field.

[dukie]

dish soap. water and fingers ( no cloths ever!). shake to dry. If i'm really worried about spots, I rinse them off with distilled water.

I clean all of my plastic lenses this way, eye glasses, masks, shop glasses etc. Works perfect everytime. I get 6 months out of a set of shop glasses using them every day. I ussually end up changing shop glasses when the ear and nose pieces dissintegrate.

[LoopyDood]

Why no clothes? I've never had a problem with using a cotton shirt.

[Cunha]

Wiping anything will cause micro scratches that will eventually cause haziness.

[dukie]

well, I usually prefer to wear some clothes. You never know when the kids are going to walk in.

However I never wipe them with any cloth, for the exact reason Cunha just said. I can't stand a hazy mask, and it happens really easily!

Not to mention lenses were pretty pricey when I started playing,I think at the time it would have cost me $45 for a replacement JT whipper snapper lense.

[Daze]

I use profilers and, someone is going to hunt me down and flog me for this, a 2:1 water:alcohol mix and an old hand towel work just fine. I've replaced my lenses once (this february) after about 2 years of play with that mask, due more to poor storage than cleaning method.

[Goat]

Originally Posted by Daze

I use profilers and, someone is going to hunt me down and flog me for this, a 2:1 water:alcohol mix and an old hand towel work just fine. I've replaced my lenses once (this february) after about 2 years of play with that mask, due more to poor storage than cleaning method.

Thats what I use at the field, .....between games...and a plus side to that, if its 110* out and you spray the back of you neck with that mix it evaporates even cooler than straight water..Feels great.

[icdpaintballer]

I use a dish cleaning soap like dawn and put a little on a clean towel wet the towel and clean away. Then I let it air dry after I rinse the soapy water away.

[Sir Brass]

I use industrial-strength paper towels if I can find 'em (the blue kind that are so hard to accidentally tear) to wipe off the majority of the mess at first. Then I spray with Plexus and buff with a microfiber cloth.

That's what I do in the field. At home, I pop the lens out (profilers) and run under warm tap water and tamp dry with a paper towel, then use plexus and buff with a clean paper towel.

Here in Pheonix, I can get about 6 mo. to a year out of a lens before the grit, grime, and heat of playing makes it worth buying a new lens. Depends on how I store it, though. If I get lazy and just leave my mask in the car, the heat gets to the material and makes it hazy much faster. Actually, that's where my mask is right now, but I've been on a pball hiatus since POG weekend due to spiking gas prices.

[Cunha]

When possible it is best to not wipe the lense with anything when you dont have to. On the field it is easiest to spray the lense with a spray bottle full of water or maybe a water alcohol mixture.

This way, you remove all the paint and scratching shell before you touch it and rub it all around on the lense.