Don -- Dr E D F Williams _______________________________ http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams See feature: The Cement Company from Hell Updated: Print Gallery -- 16 11 2005
While the camera was off the microscope
I decided to clean the sensor. I did it
with Blue Tak, as I'd threatened to do
earlier, on the end of a plastic rod.
Nearly all the intrusive spots have gone
and those that remain are almost
invisible at 200% so there we are. Up to
now I've only cleaned small CCDs in
which is was possible to entirely cover
the surface with gunk and peel it off
from one end. In the *ist D I had to dab
with a slightly rounded mass of the
stuff and obviously didn't manage to
cover every pixel. I'll make a tool that
will cover the whole sensor and apply a
layer of BT to that and try again some
other time. However 99% of the dust
spots have been cleaned off.
