Hi Doug, You can do the cleaning by yourself and save a lot of money. I have cleaned my Coolscan 4000, it is easy and safe to it yourself. Take a look at: http:/www.pearsonimaging.com/articles/howto/ls5000cleaning.html Kind regards Fred Hess ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Sharp" <douglas.sharp@xxxxxx> To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 12:51 PM Subject: [LRflex] Re: slide scanner advice requested > Hi Charlie, > I've had a Coolscan V for a few years now, highly recommendable, no > problems at all with it - though I must send it in for a clean some day > soon - very grubby atmosphere here, we live close to a cement works, and > have big problems with very fine dust. ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/