Re: dust in my SS4000

[Arthur Entlich <artistic-1@xxxxxxx>]

gary wrote:

> I didn't state this properly. I used to use canned air, but eventually
> bought a scuba tank. So initially I cleaned out the scanner with canned air,
> but once I owned a scuba tank, I don't use canned air.  It is really hard to
> blow out a scanner with canned air because canned air needs to be kept
> totaly horizontal else the liquid comes out.
> 
> I did some investigation on the air in the scuba tanks. The pumps use an
> inert vegetable oil so that if any oil does get past the filter, it will not
> do much in the way of damage.


I guess that depends on what you think "inert" vegetable oil can do.  I 
question that word inert in this context, since all vegetable oil is 
organic and reactive on some level.  But, I would not particularly want 
vegetable oil "inert" or otherwise in my lungs, in my scanner on it's 
mirrors or lens or light source, etc...

Yes, might be better than some petroleum products, which I probably 
would want even less in my lungs or in my mouth, but I suspect vegetable 
oil can do its own bit of damage in the wrong place.

Art


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