That works! I didn't even notice the 4 screws securing the top of the carriage
as they were black--not the same silver color as the other screws.
The top half of my mirror was dusty. The lens looks fine. I think my scans are
better now.
Thanks.
Tony Sleep tonysl...@halftone.co.uk
On 20/07/2009 Tony Sleep wrote:
There is a 3rd screw down a hole
(top rhs of the cover, as shown), and the 4th retains the cover over
the
stepper mechanism - the slim rectangular box protuberance that your
LH
sketched blue line crosses. Essentially, there is a screw in each of
the 4
James wrote this last month. At the moment, I have my SS4000 apart and I have
removed 10 (not 6) self-tappers but see no way to remove the carriage. I do
have the lamp off, however.
Any suggestions? Is there a site with some images of this process? I spent some
time with google but was not
On 19/07/2009 sn...@cox.net wrote:
James wrote this last month. At the moment, I have my SS4000 apart
and I have removed 10 (not 6) self-tappers but see no way to remove
the carriage. I do have the lamp off, however.
It was me who wrote the report originally. I removed only the lamp carrier
(2
Tony,
Thanks for the details. If you ever do this again, how about a few digital
images along the way :).
After I removed the lamp, I tried to remove the film carrier. With the scanner
oriented in the same fashion as the background shot on the website you quote
below, I removed the two sheet
This is very encouraging, Tony. I have had my ancient SS4000 under a
cover for several years as well, and I'm sure it could use a similar
cleaning. I may give it a try. I take it that re-assembly was not a
great problem?
Cheers,
Roger Smith
On 13-Jun-09, at 12:48 PM, Tony Sleep wrote:
On
On 13/06/2009 Roger Smith wrote:
This is very encouraging, Tony. I have had my ancient SS4000 under a
cover for several years as well, and I'm sure it could use a similar
cleaning. I may give it a try. I take it that re-assembly was not a
great problem?
It's easy. 4 plastic spring clips
I too found the same thing. Even though covered up the mirror got
really dusty and the scans were really poor.
Tony's instructions are pretty much what I had to do and I used
denatured alcohol with a small piece of lint-free optical cloth.
Just be sure not to get the swab or whatever you use too
