RE: dust in my SS4000

["gary" <gsellani@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The air is filtered. The vegetable oil is used as a safe guard should
somebody screw up the filtering. Using multiple safety procedures is pretty
common when human health or safety is at stake. [Hint: Apple didn't take
this approach with their first attempt at using LIon batteries and look what
happened.]

I'll take a whiff of olive oil over 3 in 1 any day.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-scan@leben.com [mailto:owner-scan@leben.com]On Behalf Of
> Arthur Entlich
> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 3:15 AM
> To: scan@leben.com
> Subject: Re: dust in my SS4000
>

>
> 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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