Re: filmscanners: brandnew user queries

["Alan Tyson" <AlanTyson@bknowl.freeserve.co.uk>]

David Lewiston [dlewistn@maui.net] wrote on Sun, 16 Sep 2001
13:57:58 -1000
>
> ...buy an enema bulb. I've used one for years (only for my
negs and
> tranies you understand) and don't have a dust problem.

Alan T says....

Last time David L suggested this, I tried hard to buy one
from many pharmacies and surgical suppliers in NW England/NE
Wales, without success. I did, though, have many
entertaining conversations following quizzical looks.

> For those in London, you can buy them in John Bell &
Croyden, Mortimer
> Street. Maybe big Boots store have them too. They lasty
for years and
> really are just as powerful as Dust Off.
>

Thanks to David L for the tip on a London supplier. Boots
etc don't have them round here. For readers fortunate not to
have been intestinally ill lately, I could also mention that
enemas these days are, I am led to understand, administered
with single use throw-away packs.

I had some success blowing from a carefully dried plastic
bottle of the washing-up liquid type, but which had
contained deionised water.

However, after some experimentation, I have returned to
restrained use of canned 'air'. Jessops "Clean-Aer' is 6
ukpounds for a big refill can (360mL), and the propellant is
butane. If you negotiate you may get the nozzle thrown in
free, but it's a supposed to be a fiver.

----- Original Message -----
From: David Gordon <mail@davidgordon.co.uk>
To: Filmscanners <Filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: brandnew user queries