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How should I open my housing???
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Cathy Church
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Since many towels can be very linty, I use a sports chamois, especially when I am on a live-aboard and opening the camera when it is fresh out of the water several times a day. The chamois works only when it is already moistened.
Whenever you remove the synch cord from a port such as the Ikelite or a Nikonos 5 pin port (from the camera or the strobe end), I highly recommend using a dry paper towel wrapped around the cord as you slowly pull it out (downward, as always so that any stray droplets spill down and away from the synch port rather than into the exposed contacts.) Immediately use your little finger (or similar) to stuff a dry portion of the paper towel into the port and immediately absorb the water that is on the threads of the synch port.
All of this is done only after rinse/soak in clean fresh water, of course.
enjoy the journey,
Cathy
Whenever you remove the synch cord from a port such as the Ikelite or a Nikonos 5 pin port (from the camera or the strobe end), I highly recommend using a dry paper towel wrapped around the cord as you slowly pull it out (downward, as always so that any stray droplets spill down and away from the synch port rather than into the exposed contacts.) Immediately use your little finger (or similar) to stuff a dry portion of the paper towel into the port and immediately absorb the water that is on the threads of the synch port.
All of this is done only after rinse/soak in clean fresh water, of course.
enjoy the journey,
Cathy
OP
Thanks everyone for the great tips!!
You are most welcome, did the hammer do the trick?
OP
Yup- I just wrapped a moist chamois around the hammer and made sure the camera pieces fell out onto a dry towel. 
Good times Did it explode, if so WE require video proof. . .
Did it explode, if so WE require video proof. . .
Big Fic
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Looks like I do what most do..... Rinse, push, pull buttons. except I dry the housing with a t shirt (seems like much less lint), open the housing and run the t shirt around the seal and use my clean fingers to check the o ring. I only use silicone the very first dive of the trip and I usually change the memory card every night.
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