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Hi Don, As I have emailed privately to you, I would also like to state publicly that I really appreciate the time and effort you put into scanning and photographing the brush from its many angles. Very helpful information, and admittedly, not how I had conceptualized the positioning and design in my mind's eye from the word descriptions. I will have to try to come up with some design that mimics the main point of the Polaroid design. I will also try to find out if any brushes are still to be had. My email to David Hemmingway hasn't yet been replied to, but that email address was not current, so he may no longer be accessing that address. Thanks again, Art Don Denburg wrote: Art - I have lurked in this group for years and have always appreciated your posts. I have taken a series of shots of the brush assembly and instructions and placed them in a PDF of about 1 MB. I will send them to you directly, and to anyone else who is interested--unless there is someplace that I can upload them for general viewing. The basic instructions are to attach the brush to only the slide carrier, shut off the scanner, and then push the carrier all the way through three times. Don - Original Message - From: Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 5:09 AM Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Dust brush for Polaroid 4000] Sounds good. I think I will try the pipe cleaner approach without the carrier, to make sure I don't disrupt anything. I can see the area the carrier goes through around that fin or groove, and I also see some insulated wires which are probably the connections to the sensor that needs cleaning, so I will try to clean in that area with a pipe cleaner or something similar. Thanks, Art [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the camera I have was bought for another purpose and I didn't care that its macro capability is poor. What comes to mind is a long pipe cleaner that fits well in the channel. All you need to do is drop the front door and you can see the channel quite clearly. Choose the appropriately-sized pipe cleaner and go to it. Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
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Don's PDF showing the brush and instructions for use are now at http://tonysleep.co.uk/file-area/polaroid-4000-brush -- Regards Tony Sleep http://tonysleep.co.uk Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
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Sounds good. I think I will try the pipe cleaner approach without the carrier, to make sure I don't disrupt anything. I can see the area the carrier goes through around that fin or groove, and I also see some insulated wires which are probably the connections to the sensor that needs cleaning, so I will try to clean in that area with a pipe cleaner or something similar. Thanks, Art [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the camera I have was bought for another purpose and I didn't care that its macro capability is poor. What comes to mind is a long pipe cleaner that fits well in the channel. All you need to do is drop the front door and you can see the channel quite clearly. Choose the appropriately-sized pipe cleaner and go to it. Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
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Art - I have lurked in this group for years and have always appreciated your posts. I have taken a series of shots of the brush assembly and instructions and placed them in a PDF of about 1 MB. I will send them to you directly, and to anyone else who is interested--unless there is someplace that I can upload them for general viewing. The basic instructions are to attach the brush to only the slide carrier, shut off the scanner, and then push the carrier all the way through three times. Don - Original Message - From: Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 5:09 AM Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Dust brush for Polaroid 4000] Sounds good. I think I will try the pipe cleaner approach without the carrier, to make sure I don't disrupt anything. I can see the area the carrier goes through around that fin or groove, and I also see some insulated wires which are probably the connections to the sensor that needs cleaning, so I will try to clean in that area with a pipe cleaner or something similar. Thanks, Art [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the camera I have was bought for another purpose and I didn't care that its macro capability is poor. What comes to mind is a long pipe cleaner that fits well in the channel. All you need to do is drop the front door and you can see the channel quite clearly. Choose the appropriately-sized pipe cleaner and go to it. Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
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On 25/02/2008 Don Denburg wrote: I will send them to you directly, and to anyone else who is interested--unless there is someplace that I can upload them for general viewing. If you want to email them to me I'll park them on a webpage. -- Regards Tony Sleep http://tonysleep.co.uk Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
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Yes, the camera I have was bought for another purpose and I didn't care that its macro capability is poor. What comes to mind is a long pipe cleaner that fits well in the channel. All you need to do is drop the front door and you can see the channel quite clearly. Choose the appropriately-sized pipe cleaner and go to it. --- Thank you for taking the time and going through the frustration of attempting to photograph the brush. My main concern is to not design something which is too stiff, too large or otherwise improperly proportioned which could damage another part of the scanner while trying to clean the area, or making something which falls off halfway through, and requires the scanner to be disassembled. snip Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
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After fussing around for the better part of an hour trying to take decent photos of a black bit of plastic stuck onto a black slide carrier, all the while trying to show the alignment of the brush bristles with the fin, which is far enough away that it is out of focus, I gave it up as a bad job. It is important to focus on the *objective* instead of the *implementation*. The objective is to clean the sides and bottom of the left-hand channel of the scanner -- the channel the fin rides in. Remember, the initial query was what bit of the scanner needed attention with a brush. Now you know what part is cleaned by the brush from Polaroid. --- Thank you for the word description which helps, but as they say, a picture is worth 1000 words, or whatever... I look forward to seeing the images. Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
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Thank you for the word description which helps, but as they say, a picture is worth 1000 words, or whatever... I look forward to seeing the images. Thanks again, Art [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, the brush does not surround the fin, but is placed in front of the fin, occupying the same channel as the fin. Think of a snowplow blade in front of the truck, this is a brush in front of the slide carrier and in line with the fin. The bristles sweep the two sides and bottom of the channel that the fin rides in. I'll take some photos tomorrow and post them on my web site, and report the URL here. Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
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No, the brush does not surround the fin, but is placed in front of the fin, occupying the same channel as the fin. Think of a snowplow blade in front of the truck, this is a brush in front of the slide carrier and in line with the fin. The bristles sweep the two sides and bottom of the channel that the fin rides in. I'll take some photos tomorrow and post them on my web site, and report the URL here. Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
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On 18/02/2008 Arthur Entlich wrote: A scanner question... does anyone know if there is still a source for the little dust brush Polaroid designed for their 4000 series scanners, or is there somewhere I can see what it looked like so I might be able to fashion one? I don't know, but I need one too I think. The 4000 seems to mistake the neg holder for the slide holder rather more often than it used to - about half the time now. Is that a symptom? -- Regards Tony Sleep http://tonysleep.co.uk Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
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Gee, maybe I'll need to go into 3rd party production on those brushes. Yeah, the symptoms are assorted irregularities with the film/slide holders, including the unit not acknowledging the holder, interpreting the wrong holder, giving a false bumped holder error, and a few more. Now that I know there are several people experiencing the same problems, I will try to see if I can find a source or if Polaroid still has anything going. Art Tony Sleep wrote: On 18/02/2008 Arthur Entlich wrote: A scanner question... does anyone know if there is still a source for the little dust brush Polaroid designed for their 4000 series scanners, or is there somewhere I can see what it looked like so I might be able to fashion one? I don't know, but I need one too I think. The 4000 seems to mistake the neg holder for the slide holder rather more often than it used to - about half the time now. Is that a symptom? -- Regards Tony Sleep http://tonysleep.co.uk Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
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On 18/02/2008 Arthur Entlich wrote: Now that I know there are several people experiencing the same problems, I will try to see if I can find a source or if Polaroid still has anything going. Info posted to this list a long time back indicates it's part number CPS546 and available on request from Polaroid Tech support on 800-432-5355 800 numbers aren't do-able from UK so I never did. -- Regards Tony Sleep http://tonysleep.co.uk Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Re: Dust brush for Polaroid 4000
Didn't Microtek make these scanners for Polaroid? If that's the case, might try them. Jim Tony Sleep wrote: On 18/02/2008 Arthur Entlich wrote: A scanner question... does anyone know if there is still a source for the little dust brush Polaroid designed for their 4000 series scanners, or is there somewhere I can see what it looked like so I might be able to fashion one? I don't know, but I need one too I think. The 4000 seems to mistake the neg holder for the slide holder rather more often than it used to - about half the time now. Is that a symptom? -- Regards Tony Sleep http://tonysleep.co.uk Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
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On 18/02/2008 James L. Sims wrote: Didn't Microtek make these scanners for Polaroid? If that's the case, might try them. Yes, they did, the Artixscan 4000 was their version. Both built on the same production line, but the Polaroids had tighter component spec selection according to Polaroid (who specced it and commissioned the design from M'tek. Polaroid later rather regretted the co-licensing deal they did with M'tek to keep costs down, as they sold far more '4000's than they expected. I may just pop the lid off mine and see if a sable brush or DustOff can help. -- Regards Tony Sleep http://tonysleep.co.uk Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Re: Dust brush for Polaroid 4000
I have one of the brushes for my SS4000, and I just now looked at it to see what it does. It rides/cleans the channel that the LEFT side of the slide carrier rides in. If you look at the bottom of the slide carrier you will see the left side has a thin fin as contrasted to the wide flat surface on the right side (the side with the gear teeth). The brush is a spiral pipe cleaner brush that cleans the channel the thin fin goes in. Because the brush is tubular, and its long axis is aligned with the length of the fin, I can't tell if it is cleaning the bottom, left, or right side of the channel the fin rides in. I suspect it cleans both sides, but that's just a guess. The centerline of the brush is aligned with the bottom of the fin, and the brush is about 1/8 diameter. HTH Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
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I'll take a run with this. I've been in contact with David Hemmingway a while back, and he referred me to someone at Polaroid, who never got back to me. Now that there seems to be a demand for these brushed, I'll do some research and see if I can track them down. I also thought of Microtek, but I have a feeling them may be less responsive than Polaroid, even if Polaroid is basically gone ;-) I'll keep people informed of what I discover. Art Tony Sleep wrote: On 18/02/2008 Arthur Entlich wrote: Now that I know there are several people experiencing the same problems, I will try to see if I can find a source or if Polaroid still has anything going. Info posted to this list a long time back indicates it's part number CPS546 and available on request from Polaroid Tech support on 800-432-5355 800 numbers aren't do-able from UK so I never did. -- Regards Tony Sleep http://tonysleep.co.uk Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
