Mask De-Foggers

[buchhawk]

Originally Posted by scuba steve irl

1 of the guys tried this with a lighter needed a new mask before it even got wet .

and im in the middle of peeling the spuds for dinner as we speak .

and as im irish leave my spuds alone ...... they are important to my crisp fetish

Use a lighter not a blow lamp

Enjoy your dinner

Ken

[scuba steve irl]

Originally Posted by buchhawk

Use a lighter not a blow lamp

Enjoy your dinner

Ken

mashed spuds draped over biled spuds with a side of roast spuds .

[Buoyant Babe]

Originally Posted by scuba steve irl

mashed spuds draped over biled spuds with a side of roast spuds .

No chips?

[buchhawk]

Originally Posted by scuba steve irl

mashed spuds draped over biled spuds with a side of roast spuds .

Thats a Irish mixed grill if you add a few chips.

Me I am having a curry

Ken

[ChristianG]

Originally Posted by scuba steve irl

1 of the guys tried this with a lighter needed a new mask before it even got wet .

I can understand that. Seems a bit extreme to me too.

Originally Posted by scuba steve irl

and im in the middle of peeling the spuds for dinner as we speak .

and as im irish leave my spuds alone ...... they are important to my crisp fetish

It happens that both potatos and apples make a pretty good mask defogger. Defogger, not cleaner of scunge, but why bother when spit will do equally well.

When I descunged my last new mask, a Scubapro FWTIW, I used the abrasive type of toothpaste on my finger. My index finger, or middle finger for that matter is not of sausage proportions and manages to get into as much of the crevices as to make sight lines a non event, and I'm a photog so those are pretty important to me.

Did that when I bought that mask and haven't done it since nor needed to. That was about 12 years ago and since then the mask has had two new dioptres glued into it - the eyes ain't what they used to be.

So what is it about your water to make you need a major scrub out every so often?

[purple vonny]

Remember to to put toothpaste on the inside of your mask, not your eyeballs.

If you scrub your eyeballs with minty fresh aquapaste, they might smart a bit. Especially if you use an electric toothbrush.

[scuba steve irl]

i remove my mask on EVERY dive keeps the face used to the water.

the water around dublin bay is always pea green soup for of shite . so a little wash and clean every now and then keep the lenses clear and unfogged

[scuba steve irl]

Originally Posted by purple vonny

Remember to to put toothpaste on the inside of your mask, not your eyeballs.

If you scrub your eyeballs with minty fresh aquapaste, they might smart a bit. Especially if you use an electric toothbrush.

always a good idea to keep the tooth brush in yer mouth not in yer eyeballs

had sumtin in my eye about a month ago and the eye doc had to pop it out and cleaned it with a brush not all that dissimilar from a tooth brush

[scuba steve irl]

Originally Posted by Buoyant Babe

No chips?

shows ho little ya all know about me im more classy than chips of a sunday .

boiled mashed roast and crokets . com on guys im a classy bloke

[Scubee]

Potatoes work becuase of the starch in them which is what stops the mask fogging up.

It is also a reason why children often have difficulties in that no matter how oftern they spit, their masks tend to fog up quickly - they have less starch in their saliva.

Or so i was told.