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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------ > Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe > filmscanners' > or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title > or body > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
