On 1/10/2009 11:04 AM Marc Bouchard spake thus:

This question has probably been asked a thousand times but here goes.

I just bought a Plustek 7500ISE scanner to scan my dad's old slides.
As I peeked at a few, they look fairly dirty. How do I clean those
up? Obviously not with water (the cardboard holder wouldn't last long
and water might damage the slide itself).

So what is the best way to clean those? Any particular product/method?

Yes, but you can't get it anymore. I have a small bottle of Kodak's film
cleaner that I've used to clean slides. It's nasty
stuff--trichloreth-something, probably been banned for some time now,
but it does a great job cleaning film. You very carefully apply it with
a moistened cotton swab and it lifts dirt, etc., off the slide.

Dunno if any kind of substitute is made. Anyone? I'd like to get some
for when my little bottle runs out.

Oh, and before you use the cleaner, you want to blow off as much loose
dirt as you can; a blower brush is good, as someone else suggested.
Gently is the key word here.

So much for my never posting anything relevant here, by the way.


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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the
powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

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