As you probably know the sticky drum oil is referred to by photographers who get trannies back from repro as grease. Especially when it has been on the floor a couple of times and looks a bit like butter but harder to clean.
When I did a survey of drum scanners a few years back the ICG came out as the cleanest by far and also because of the throughput the quickest to earn back its investment. That was when they cost $56,000. Secondhand they are now little more than a Flextight.
I haven't heard about the drum sucking in dust, quite the opposite. As I understand it most users change the evaporating oil every few days whether they need to or not.
As you probably also know the bureau I use is situated in an old farm barn in the middle of the Devon countryside and looks from the outside a suitable candidate for dust problems. They must be doing something right because they are Alamy's number one recommendation for scans and have a turnaround time running in weeks, if not months for most of the year.
Yours
Bob
On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 07:44 pm, Richard Kenward wrote:
Dear Bob
There is an issue which I was told of but not sure if I believe... it was that there is a tendency for the drum because it causes a vacuum to cause dust to be drawn in and cause scans to be dirty. You have obviously not suffered from this it would seem or perhaps it's only on certain design of drum. BTW who uses grease to mount up film on a drum these days?
All agog <G
Richard
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