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I purchased Visible Dust sensor cleaning kit, but don't know how to use ampoule in which cleaning fluid is contained.
Instead of screw cap there is snap-on cap with stick protruding into fluid, in one piece. I can remove the cap, but don't know what to do with this cap.
Does anyone have experience with this?
The purpose of the "stick" attached to the cap is to be used as a dropper to drip only two to four drops of fluid onto the cleaning swabs. It is not meant to be removed from the cap.
Pull the cap up directly above the vial, let most of the fluid drip back into the vial until there are only a few drops left on the "stick", then allow 2-4 drops of fluid to drip onto the cleaning swab. Replace the cap on the vial.
Instructions from the Visible Dust website include the following:
Add 2-4 drops of VDust Plus™ on the fabric of sensor cleaning swab (MXD-100 Green or DHAP Orange Vswab™).
Too much fluid on the swabs can cause more problems than the dust the swabs are made to remove.
In the meantime I received response from the company which is in line with my note above. Stick has no any function, swab corner need to be sunk into bottle top.
This is what I haven't tried in practice yet. In video, swab corner is deeply sunk into the ampule, and that's repeated in other end.
In they email, they rep told me that liquid just need to touch swab, which makes sense, but is not fully identical with what is presented in their video.
I am still unsure how to be certain that I applied few drops only.
Ah, while the company doesn't respond, the reseller gave me the clue!
I have one video that shows how swab corner should be literally pushed into open ampoule, and ampoule tilted until it wets swab corner.
I would have never come to that myself, though I suspected that the stick serves no purpose, as odd as it might seem.
