Philatarium
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Post by Philatarium on Jul 22, 2018 21:57:34 GMT
I mustered up my courage and disassembled and cleaned the underside (interior side) of my scanner glass yesterday afternoon. (It had gotten cloudy in places.)
I looked up how to do it for my particular scanner model, and it turned out to be surprisingly easy to take the scanner apart, clean the glass, and then reassemble it.
I should've done this years ago.
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angore
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Post by angore on Jul 23, 2018 11:36:22 GMT
What brand do you have? My prior Epson got cloudy.
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Philatarium
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Post by Philatarium on Jul 23, 2018 16:06:35 GMT
Yes, this is an Epson: Epson Perfection V500 Photo
I read on another board a little while back that Epsons are particularly known for this. Having had other brands of scanners, I've become a big fan of Epson scanners (I have two -- the other is a large-format one), so I was disappointed in learning of that tendency, but thrilled to learn that it is not difficult to remedy. (The time-consuming part is actually cleaning the glass, not the disassembly or reassembly.)
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Philatarium
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Post by Philatarium on Jul 23, 2018 16:27:53 GMT
In case anyone has the same or a similar model:
There are simply 4 screws that have to be removed:
-- 2 down in the well where the lid inserts go at the rear of the scanner
-- 2 under the front panel (where the command buttons are -- you have the turn it over to see them)
It takes a small-headed Phillips' head screwdriver. The screws in the lid well are deep, so the screwdriver needs to be a longer one or, as in my case, has an extension that can be inserted before the screwdriver head. (Mine is a "universal" type screwdriver with about a dozen interchangeable heads.)
It took me longer to prepare this post than it takes to remove the scanner glass piece!
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I would recommend that someone look online first and see if there are any webpages or Youtube videos that show how to do this. (In my case, Epson was silent on the matter.) I found a webpage where someone who sounded even less technical than I described and showed how they did it, and that gave me the confidence to give it a try.
It was well worth the effort, in my opinion.
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