Cleaning housing and dome

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Can you use Nauticam ports, wet lenses and accessories with it?
Yes you can use the nauticam wet lenses like wwl-1 and even the Wacp. You would buy a marelux to nauticam port adaptor to use Nauticam lenses.
 

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Yes you can use the nauticam wet lenses like wwl-1 and even the Wacp. You would buy a marelux to nauticam port adaptor to use Nauticam lenses.

What about Nauticam ports? Can you use them with some sort of an adapter with the Marelux housing or you have to use Marelux ports only?
 
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What about Nauticam ports? Can you use them with some sort of an adapter with the Marelux housing or you have to use Marelux ports only?
Yes if you use this I believe.

 

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Hi,

Any suggestions on what to use to clean my aluminum housing and glass dome?

I soak the housing after every dive in fresh water, and always soak it for 24 hrs once home from a trip. But I can never get the white stains to go away. I even bought the Dr film housing cleaner to soak it in, and no luck.

The dome has some weird imprinted stain around it. Seems like some oil or chemical might have had a reaction with the glass? It doesn't come off after normal soaking. I've also tried cleaning it with vinegar. Haven't tried any glass polishes yet, like meguiars or chemical guys.

My favorite stains...both from salt drying out on teh housing, usually on the boat between the dives, and from those lovely "boats" in Indo/Philly leaking the fuel and oil left and right and that staining the housing when you inevitably dive through such a lovely, shiny patch.

Ballistol oil and a toothbrush was a recommendation made by a Nauticam technician (EDIT: to avoid any misunderstanding this is what I was told by by a technician/service center when asking about general cleaning and getting those white spots out:

Please do not use soap and dishwashing detergent, that also dissolves the grease on the o-rings, normally we use just water and a tooth brush, sometimes Balistiol oil.

On the housing itself that is. Those dome stains do look like some dirt as well but dunno if the oil would react with acrylic. Definitely stay away from any alcohol based cleaning agents for that as that might make the acrylic brittle.
But if its glass "Mothers Water Spot Remover For Glass" seems to be doing lots of magic - there is a topic on that on Wetpixel:
 

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I like the housing a lot. It's comparable to Nauticam in terms of functionality and the button placements are nice and customizable. You're also able to use nauticam lenses with Marelux so that's a nice option.

I think Marelux was started by Nauticam former engineers if I am not mistaken...so not surprisingly housings do look similar :wink:
Just sadly they do not offer anything in m4/3 format...
 

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Just sadly they do not offer anything in m4/3 format

Yes, unfortunately that's a deal breaker for me.
 
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