[filmscanners] Re: Polaroid Factory Service

["Pat Cullinan, jr." <pcullinan@mindspring.com>]

Hi Keith,

The brush is Neanderthaler technology.  Precision engineering it's not.  It 
never
went through the tunnel with anything like reassuring smoothitude.  I felt like
I was taking a meat axe to a butterfly.

The brush helped for a time, but now my SS4000 is cross-eyed and belly-up.
I'm hoping Polaroid will take pity on my poor soul and fix it pro bono.

Pat Cullinan, Jr.
New York

Keith Wiley wrote:

> This gadget made this forum some time ago.  It's name is the SprintScan 4000
> Cleaning Brush.  The instructions begin with: "Maintain peak performance
> from your Polaroid SprintScan 4000 scanner by using the cleaning brush
> monthly.  Also use the brush if the scanner motor runs and the yellow LED
> flashes when no film is in the carrier."  Tech support mails them free.  The
> brush looks like a miniature toothbrush about one half inch long.  Its long
> axis is parallel to the slide carrier.  It attaches to the front end of the
> 35mm slide carrier by a friction mount.  It runs off to the left of the CCD.
> I ran mine in once, following the directions exactly.  It jammed at the
> depth of the CCD where it stopped just short of a transverse shelf.  It
> would neither advance, nor withdraw.  Tech support was no help.  Am I
> somehow clumsy, or have others suffered this misfortune?
> Keith:
>
> >Then I ran that brush through and it stuck.
>
> What brush?
>
> Did I miss something that came with mine?
>
> Eric
>
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